[HH#645304] Question regarding hosting

[HelioHost]

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Hi,

I'm planning to sign up with heliohost to host my Saas
application, currently in development. The app is a HR recruitment
platform. I've read the terms and conditions and I don't believe this
violates them in any way.

The app is written in Laravel with livewire. I will be using a MySQL db for
my data. I develop code via GitHub and typically I deploy over ssh.

The business is still very new, so volumes are expected to be very low
during the first year. Therefore I'd like to start small and grow my
subscription as the business grows. Could you advise me what tier to start
with? I've been looking at Mercury, which seems to fit what I need, but
does it really? I read something on the forums that Laravel tends to be
memory hungry. On another topic, I didn't see anything mentioned on
backups. Does this tier provide daily backups or only weekly, and how to
access them?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

TIA

Darius

[Krydos]

Yes, Laravel should run nicely on the Mercury VPS. Laravel really varies on how many resources it needs. Just a bare Laravel with very little content isn't too bad, but as you add layers upon layers of complexity and plugins and whatnot it can start to consume a lot more memory and CPU. Upgrading the Mercury VPS to add more memory or CPUs is very easy though so we do recommend people start small and then only pay for what they need. If the performance isn't good enough let us know and we can help you diagnose what the bottleneck is and give you advice on how to improve things.

We don't provide automated backups, but we encourage everyone to take frequent backups themselves. We've had a few people write guides on how to set up automated backups to Dropbox, or various other external storage solutions. If you're not too familiar with Linux scripting and cron jobs we can help you with that as well.

Let us know if you have any other questions.