Concrete Cannot Be Used on Servers with Low RAM
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Ok, I have run into a serious issue. I bought a VPS (Virtual Private Server) service, and go their 256MB RAM option, which is the lowest they had.
I just tried installing 5.5.1, and it gives me nothing but a fatal error that says that I am trying to use too much RAM (exceeds my limit). Basically, this means that Concrete is attempting to use a whopping 493 MB of RAM when installing (and who knows how much it'll try after the installation!)!
In other words, I can't install Concrete on my server that I spent $$$ on!!
Is there any way around this, so that Concrete doesn't use up a HUGE amount of RAM (which seems completely unnecessary, even during a fresh installation)!
I just tried installing 5.5.1, and it gives me nothing but a fatal error that says that I am trying to use too much RAM (exceeds my limit). Basically, this means that Concrete is attempting to use a whopping 493 MB of RAM when installing (and who knows how much it'll try after the installation!)!
In other words, I can't install Concrete on my server that I spent $$$ on!!
Is there any way around this, so that Concrete doesn't use up a HUGE amount of RAM (which seems completely unnecessary, even during a fresh installation)!
I don't think your problem is that C5 needs a huge amount of memory. I wouldn't expect a VPS with 256mb RAM to do much more than static web pages, the VPS alone is probably eating up most of your memory. I doubt you would have much luck with any CMS. My VPS has 2gb RAM. You might just stick to a regular hosting plan if you don't want to spend for enough memory.
I think you need to look into what your PHP RAM limits are. I just tried installing concrete5 on my laptop with the sample content, while dialing the memory_limit setting all the way down to 16 megs and it installed fine. I even dropped it to 12 megs and – after getting one weird intermittent PHP memory error – it installed fine.
It's going to depend how that VPS is configured and what else it is running. I have a 256Mb VPS with Rackspace Cloud, it installs C5 fine and performance is pretty reasonable.
