Interesting discussion. I don't know which cloud service was referenced for the 66k/year for 2 vCPU, 8GB RAM server. There are much cheaper options available. I will present just two here: 1. E2E Networks: having top quality datacenters in Delhi & Mumbai, using top grade CPUs. 4 vCPUs (Intel/AMD), 8 GB RAM, 100 GB SSD NVMe will cost: ₹2,263 + GST / month = ₹27,156 + GST / year 2. Hetzner: having high-grade datacenters across EU. Their ARM CPUs** are very economical. 4 vCPU (Ampere Arm64), 8 GB RAM, 80 GB SSD will cost: €7.72 / month = €92.64 / year =~ ₹8,400 / year 8 vCPU (Ampere Arm64), 16 GB RAM, 160 GB SSD will cost: €14.86 / month = €178.32 / year =~ ₹16,200 / year ** Both Koha and DSpace work perfectly fine on Arm64 CPUs. Although ARM CPUs are cheaper to manufacture and run, they are not commonly available with most cloud service providers. Best regards, Saiful Amin semanticconsulting.com Bangalore On 22/May/2024 09:03 am, Atanu Garai wrote:
In general, it appears Koha-using libraries can benefit a lot from performance enhancements. From a cost perspective, it seems Koha runs well in a minimum of 2vCPU, 8 GB RAM, and 16 GB memory. A server with this spec costs about Rs. 66,816 a year. That’s a significant expense for a library having 5,000 to 10,000 resources.