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Asked: 2026-05-27T05:17:27+00:00

i have an ASP.NET application (website, catalog-like). No high load expected (not more than

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i have an ASP.NET application (website, catalog-like). No high load expected (not more than 50 concurrent users, lets say, and 95% just read – it is a website), but it has some specific needs, so i cant host it on shared hosting, and going for hosted virtual server. Configuration is like this – 2 GHz core (agregated 1:5), 1024 dedicated RAM, 30GB disk space. It is running Windows Server 2008 R2 Web.

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  1. it is a good idea to install and run SQL server 2008 R2 Express on this virtual ? Limitations are OK (anyway I have only 1 core and 1GB RAM, 10 GB per DB is perfectly fine), but how about performance ? I dont want it to use all available memory, because the ASP.NET app needs some too because of intensive caching (so maybe few hundreds MBs).

  2. Can i set max server memory for SQL express to (lets say) 500 MB and expect fair performance? (only 1 small DB – for some time it will be under that 500 MB, and for a long time under 1 GB).

  3. Additionally, are there any options i can use to minimize memory footprint/requirements of SQL server express ? (besides NOT installing reporting services, fulltext serach and replication – non of this is needed in my app)

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  1. Editorial Team

    1.it is a good idea to install and run SQL server 2008 R2 Express on this virtual ?

    No. 30gb disc space area laready below what is recommended for windows – ading sql server wont help. On top, you never know how crappy the disc subsystem is, and fast discs are what makes ad atabase fly. DB perforamcne to a large part is controleld by the performance of the disc subsystem and that nromally sucks on virtual discs provided by non specialised hosters.

    2.Can i set max server memory for SQL express to (lets say) 500 MB and expect fair performance?

    Can i load only 100kg on a car and it is suitable= DEPENDS WHAT YOU DO. 500mb for a 10gb database may or may not be enough, depends on usabe patterns.

    3.Additionally, are there any options i can use to minimize memory footprint/requirements of SQL
    server express ?

    This is so totalyl not hjow sql server works. Databases want big ram to use it as cache. Minimize it – sure. Then isntead of RAM you bburn IOPS which is a harder resource to get.

    I personally think that aproduction server – even a vps – that is so much less powerfull thean a cheap laptop is totally the wrong approach.

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