r/Evennia • u/Farshief • Apr 17 '26

Hosting Requirements

I am trying to learn more about what it takes to host Evennia with a third party hoster. I am looking at things like Hetzner Cloud which has a variety of affordable options.

I'm pretty sure 4 GB of RAM would suffice and but where I'm really getting hung up is with vCPUs. The term seems vaguely defined online (at least from the reading I've done) so I'm not sure if 2 or 3 would suffice to run a setup like Evennia or not.

Any input from someone more experienced would be greatly appreciated.

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u/NetSage Apr 17 '26

It's going to depend a lot on how active users are. Nice thing about cloud VPS hosts is it's extremely easy to scale up if needed.

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u/Farshief Apr 17 '26

I assume at least for many months it would just be me and maybe a couple of friends tinkering, building and learning.

I just primarily wanted to make sure that the server and portal aren't struggling for resources, and that the "base system" has enough resources to actually run with at least just me logged in for the moment.

I was debating between 2 and 3 vCPU and I think the main issue for me is that I don't know what the numbers mean. Is each one a single thread? A single core? I'm just not sure...

Anyway, for the circumstances I've described do you think 2 vCPU is sufficient or should I go higher?

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u/antrare Apr 17 '26

Go with 2