Magento2.0 Server requirements - Need Guidance

[maratheprash]

Hello All,

We are using Magento2 for one of our project.
On our site there are approximately 2000 customer's and around 3000 products right now.
We are using Magento CE V 2.0.7

It seems that our website is slow. Magento2 takes around 6 seconds to process the first byte. 
According to GTMatrix - Our Page Speed is 61%. Don't know why the site is slow.
We have to improve our page speed and we already followed some instructions from GTMatrix.

Few things about Server :
We are using following configuration -
AWS t2.large instance. 
8GB RAM
2vCPU
Server is  VPS.

Is this sufficient configuration for Magento 2 ? or Magento needs some more configuration ?
Is it possible that because of this it affects on Page Speed & Website Performance ?

Thanks in advanced !

[Manish Mittal]

Hello @maratheprash

Instance configuration seems Okay, apart from that you can follow below steps:

1.Reverse Proxy Integration, Varnis

2. Mode should be production

3. Upgrade your current system to the latest version of Magento as CE V 2.0.7 is very old

4. Use CDN

5. Frontend Optimization

6. Cache Management: FPC, Redis

7. Minify redirections if there any

8. Minify jQuery and CSS

That will improve site speed. Let me know if you need any further information. 

[prema_mani1]

Hi maratheprash,

Few points to improve the speed:

1. Mode: Change mode to production. <a href="https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/config-guide/bootstrap/magento-modes.html">More Info here</a>
2. Enable Varnish Cache . <a href="https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/config-guide/varnish/config-varnish.html">More Info here</a>
3. Redis: Redis is an optional backend cache solution to replace Zend_Cache_Backend_File, which is used in Magento 2 by default. It can be used for session storage and page caching. <a href="https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/config-guide/redis/config-redis.html">More Info here</a>

4. Optimize Javascript and CSS
5. Update Magento Version
6. Use fully optimized images
7. Use latest PHP version

References:
https://devdocs.magento.com/
https://magenticians.com/why-magento-2-is-slow/

Thank You!