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cyrofila wrote:What are the specifications  for x3 to run on Google Cloud and AWS?

No. of vCPU, RAM, OS, PHP configuration set database?

Generally we recommend running X3 from Apache/Linux PHP environment, although it will work under other OS/servers also, including NGINX/WinIIS/Litespeed.

As for CPU / RAM, there aren't really any requirements as long as you have reasonably modern resources. We run our own virtual server with a few dozen X3 websites, and it's only using 5% of CPU/memory (with some spikes). X3 is built to run nicely on shared servers with image and page caching. X3 CPU/memory usage only peaks in the stages when it is resizing (processing) images, and creating pages, before pages and images get cached.

To avoid image resize issues, you should probably have at least 32MB memory assigned in php.ini.

As for PHP requirements, the newer version (PHP 7+) the better. Only standard built-in PHP extensions required (including GD, Mcrypt, mod_rewrite).

I can't really say anything else. X3 is meant to run on our users shared servers, and therefore it only uses default extensions and doesn't require anything aside from reasonable memory and CPU resources.