Hello there
I’m new here
I was wondering which premium package can handle around 25k people taking quizzes at moodle without the website getting overloaded or down
Hi and welcome to the forum! I can’t tell since I’ve only used Premium Hosting for a short period, but iFastNet knows better than I do since they manage the hosting infrastructure, so why don’t you try asking them before you buy it?
It might also be useful to check out these charts:
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Thanks for replying, but i don’t know much in specifications i will wait for answers from the team
Please understand that 25,000 concurrent users is an INSANELY busy site. And that Moodle is not exactly simple and efficient software.
To be honest, I wouldn’t ever consider running something that big on any single server, let alone a small slice of a server like what you get with a web hosting account.
25,000 people taking quizzes is the same as a pretty big university having all their students take quizzes at the same time. And universities typically have their own datacenters and IT teams. They don’t run on stringing together $5 hosting accounts.
Do you absolutely need to be able to handle 25k concurrent users right now already? And are you able to spend the $xxxx to provide that capacity? Or can you get by with a lower capacity (and lower cost) right now and grow your infrastructure as needed later on?
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Hello again, you’re right about everything you just said
The thing is the university that i was assigned to their IT team doesn’t even know how to start up a server, more likely just fixing PC’s and some Excel worksheet
Anyway after deep exploration i decided to buy a server like core i5 5th gen , ssd , 16gb ram
less expensive and reliable and will purchase a domain from you guys or ifastnet and use it’s DNS records
I’m curious about something
If i purchase a domain and wrote my pc ip to it
Will the lantacy of the pc and my students will be better right? Like we’re in Canada together and the server isn’t in USA but Canada
It will be much better right? In terms of performance and lantacy
What i mean is i will buy a computer and put it in university and launch it in it
That still isn’t enough for that many users on a Moodle installation simultaneously, at least as estimated by Copilot. Have you considered the possibility of renting a dedicated server from a hosting provider? Or perhaps even renting space at a dedicated data center?
InfinityFree doesn’t sell domains, but also the location of your domain registrar doesn’t affect latency at all. What matters with latency is how far away you and your users are from your server.
Also, Canada is a big nation, so there’s a bit of variance to that.
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If the server specs recommended by the AI are anywhere near accurate, an 8 year old, mid range desktop CPU is not going to cut it. And with hardware that old, you should worry about reliability if many students are going to depend on this.
Also, your university may not allow or support website hosting from their network. Or maybe it will not be fast enough.
Latency is affected by proximity yes, and our servers are in the UK, which is not ideal from Canada. However, our servers are in datacenters with very fast datacenter grade fiber connections, which is much faster and more stable than some residential connection.
If you want to start small and are capable of managing the server yourself, you could start with a VPS somewhere near your location. A VPS can typically be upgraded to a larger plan with minimal effort, it’s located in a datacenter with fast and redundant network and power, and monitoring and replacing hardware is the hosting provider’s responsibility.
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Of course, i know there specs wont hold all that
But hopefully will upgrade ram to 32gb or smth since moodle depends on ram
Thanks for your reply,
I have decided to adjust a quiz time for each grade
Like Wednesday for 3th grade
Friday and such with times like from 1 AM to 2 AM and alike
Min 2000 students at once
Say core i5 9th gen or smth
32gb ram
Will be good enough i guess based on ai response
Thanks everyone for your response truly appreciate it
I will try it out with the PC and let you know my experience 
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