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WordPress on VPS

Open-source CMS and blogging platform

GitHub stars
21501
License
GPL-2.0-or-later
Docker
Yes
GPU
Not required

Requirements

Minimum and recommended VPS specs

Badges are attached to each value. An estimate is never presented as an official project requirement.

WordPress hardware requirements
ResourceMinimumRecommended
RAM1GB Estimated2GB Estimated
CPU1 Estimated2 Estimated
Disk10GB EstimatedNot stated Not stated

Disk figures describe the application footprint recorded in the dataset. Personal media, documents, backups and other user data can require substantially more storage.

RunOnVPS sizing suggestion

Suggested VPS tier

2 GB RAM tier

This is our sizing suggestion, derived from WordPress’s recommended RAM of 2GB. It is not an official requirement and it does not guarantee that every workload, plug-in set or media library will fit comfortably.

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Deployment

Docker & GPU

Docker support: Yes

GPU: Not required

Check the source notes below before assuming a GPU, transcoding workload or machine-learning feature is included in the baseline deployment.

Commercial alternative

What it can replace

WordPress.com

WordPress is catalogued here as a self-hosted alternative to WordPress.com. Feature parity varies, so compare your required workflow before migrating.

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Source check

Important notes

Stars/license checked 2026-10-24 (GitHub mirror repo; license per README: GPL v2 or later). Official requirements page states only PHP 8.3+ recommended (runs on PHP 7.4+), MariaDB 10.11+/MySQL 8.0+, HTTPS — 官方未标明 RAM/CPU/磁盘,均为基于 WordPress+MariaDB Docker 默认部署的估算. Docker via Docker Hub official image.

Data source: https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/

Project repository: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress

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