Server requirements

SproutCMS is built on a PHP+MySQL stack.

We recommend you use Linux; the majority of our development, testing and live deployments have all been on Linux so it's the most battle-tested. SproutCMS may work on other operating systems, however we haven't widely tested it on non-Linux systems.

Required Software

• PHP >= 5.6 with the extensions listed below
• MySQL >= 5.1
  or MariaDB
• Web server compatible with PHP
  nginx >= 1.12 is recommended, Apache is also tested and working.

PHP Extensions

• pdo-mysql
• gd2
• openssl
• freetype
• fpm

Physical Server Requirements

The physical requirements (core count, RAM, storage) depends almost entirely on your intended use case. That said SproutCMS as it ships today will not exceed a 128M PHP memory limit so even small servers will have no issues running it.

For small-medium (< 50 request/s) sites a dual-core, 2GB Linode is quite sufficient.