Sizing it for a term
Moodle is quiet most of the week and busy on the evening an assignment is due. Size for the peak, not the average, and remember that course files grow every term.
What matters in practice
Peaks, not averages
Everyone submits in the last hour. Snapshot and resize before that week, not after.
Mail that arrives
Enrolment and reset emails must reach the inbox — the records are set up for you.
Data where it must be
Pick the region and student data stays there.
Give it room for the deadline week
A small institution is comfortable here for day-to-day use, with headroom for the evening when a whole cohort logs in at once.
From order to a working Moodle
Pick Moodle as the image
In the configurator, next to the plan and the region.
Point your domain
The certificate is issued once DNS resolves.
Claim the admin account
Set the password on first visit.
Create your first course
Everything underneath is already running.
Straight answers before you deploy
Yes — the database and the moodledata directory come across. Tell the help desk and an engineer will walk it through with you.
It will serve it, but video is heavy on disk and bandwidth. Most institutions keep video elsewhere and embed it.
Ready when you are.
Configure a server now. Your account is created right before payment, with the configuration saved.