How to Size and Choose the Right VPS Specs for Your Business

Moving from shared hosting to a Virtual Private Server (VPS) is a major milestone for growing applications. But how much RAM and CPU do you actually need? ### Rule of Thumb for Web Apps: - **1-2 Core / 2GB RAM:** Small REST APIs, lightweight microservices, and staging servers. - **2-4 Cores / 4-8GB RAM:** Active e-commerce platforms (WooCommerce/Magento) and multi-tenant WordPress portals. - **8+ Cores / 16GB+ RAM:** High-volume databases, Celery/Redis background queues, and production SaaS applications.