Hey all,
I’ve been tasked with moving our existing onsite Simplehelp server to an AWS instance. We have a relatively small number of computers (about 150) running off the server, and I’m trying to figure out what our needs are for the AWS instance, and what challenges others might have encountered in doing this transition.
Any feedback or advice would be greatly appreciated. Currently run simplehelp on an old Optiplex 5070 8 core, with 32 GB of ram (which I know is overkill for our unit).
Thanks in advance!
Nothing really big as long as you have like 2vCPU which should be fairly enough (unless you need to re-encode session recording which is CPU hungry).
For the RAM, 4GB ought to be enough.
Disk ? I use 30GB for my Simplehelp host and still can’t fill it up.
If you “copy paste” your server directory into the new server and setup the systemd service running, you only would need to migrate the dns entries your server is reachable to get everything to work.
I’d advice you to have a firewall on your AWS instance, and perhaps tune your network stack to use cake /bbr scheduling.
If you run on RHEL clones or Debian, you could really tighten security by running GitHub - netinvent/el_scripts: Linux Security hardening & tuning Scripts for Enterprise Linux Redhat (RHEL) / Clones (AlmaLinux, RockyLinux) / Debian security enhancement scripts.
Thank you so much! Greatly appreciate your response!