It's been a week since I deployed nopCommerce on AccuWebHosting VPS (Eco-1) plan. This is a 1-vCPU, 1-GB-memory VPS.
My observations:1. Uptime is 100%. I use
uptimerobot.com to monitor the site and to keep it alive.
2. Performance: For a 1GB-Memory VPS, I think the performance is ok. I can also feel a slight improvement in the performance during the daytime of my time zone (GMT +2:00), basically because this is after midnight in the US. I also have to mention that I disabled all the services that come pre-installed on the VPS and I don't need, such as MySQL, FTP, SmarterMail...etc.
My store is still under construction. Before I go live, I plan to perform some or all of the following:
1. Upgrade my VPS to the Eco-2 plan. This is a 2-vCPU, 2GB-memory plan.
2. Host the database on a separate VPS. This is what 3-tier architecture is all about, right? I verified with AccuWebHosting that they guarantee to create my two VPS's in the same data center to minimize network latency.
3. Use a CDN (costs extra $4 a month) to host my static content. I haven't checked yet if this is going to be an easy task with nopCommerce.