Requirements

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Client-side Requirements

Component	Description
Browser	A browser with the ability to fully execute JavaScript from Varbase to access its full functionality.

Server-side Requirements for Evaluation or Development

The below requirements outline the minimum needed requirements. If you need help sizing your server, please contact us at https://www.vardot.com/contact-us for consultation.

• Disk space: Minimum 300MB for codebase, 5GB for files, and 1GB for the database (Will greatly depend on your application data and usage).

• Memory: Minimum of 2GB (for 1 host). Minimum PHP memory of 196MB (might need to increase this as your Varbase site's functionalities increase).

• CPU: Minimum of 2 CPUs is recommended (for 1 host).

Component	Description
PHP	PHP 8.0 or higher. PHP 8.1 is recommended. PHP extensions: mysqli (for MySQL), pgsql (for PostgreSQL), yaml, gd, openssl, json, curl, mbstring, date, dom, filter, hash, pcre, pdo, session, SimpleXML, SPL, tokenizer, mcrypt
Applications	Composer Drush 11 or higher Git
Web Server	Varbase works on any web server with PHP version of 8.0 or higher. mod_rewrite is required if you use Apache. ngx_http_rewrite_module if you use Nginx.
Database Engine	Varbase works on any multiple database engines. MySQL, MariaDB or Percona Server (Recommended) MySQL 8 is supported only on Varbase 8.6.x or higher Required MySQL 5.5.3/MariaDB 5.5.20/Percona Server 5.5.8 or higher with InnoDB

To deploy and run Varbase your web server must meet certain minimum requirements. We recommend sizing your application and considering your database size, files data, and expected traffic.

Your servers' requirements will greatly be impacted by the usage of your application. For example, if you have more logged-in users that are anonymous users, you will need to consider higher requirements to serve non-cached requests.

Server-side Requirements for Production

If you need help sizing your server, please contact us at https://www.vardot.com/contact-us for consultation.

Component	Description
PHP	PHP 8.0 or higher. PHP 8.1 is recommended. PHP extensions: mysqli (for MySQL), pgsql (for PostgreSQL), xml, gd, openssl, json, curl, mbstring, date, dom, filter, hash, pcre, pdo, session, SimpleXML, SPL, tokenizer, mcrypt For production environments, PHP memory of 256MB is recommended. In some memory-intensive pages, you can optionally increase memory using ini_set().
Applications	Composer Drush 11 or higher Git
Web Server	Varbase works on any web server with a PHP version of 7.4 or higher.mod_rewrite is required if you use Apache. ngx_http_rewrite_module if you use Nginx.
Database Engine	Varbase works on multiple database engines. MySQL, MariaDB, or Percona Server (Recommended) MySQL 8 is supported only on Varbase 8.6.x or higher Required MySQL 5.5.3/MariaDB 5.5.20/Percona Server 5.5.8 or higher with InnoDB
Memcache	Memcached server daemon PECL Memcache or PHP Memcached libraries
Varnish	Varnish cache, an advanced and very fast reverse-proxy system.
Solr Search	The minimum support Solr version is Solr 6.4 and Solr 7 is supported.