Check with your hosting service to ensure that you will be given the following minimum prerequisites:
- Enough disk space for the Moodle software, your course material, and the files that the students will upload.
- FTP access to your server.
- Enough bandwidth to serve your course files and for the students to upload their files.
- PHP version 7.
- The ability to create at least one database or to have it created for you.
- The ability to create at least one database user or to have it created for you.
- Enough shared or dedicated memory to run Moodle's automated backup routines. You may not know how much that is until you've tried it.
When you can confirm that you have those items, you are ready to proceed with the ...
