Comments on: Bootstraping Low End VPS with Pre-built Scripts

By: Titus

Titus — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 18:42:43 +0000

Towards the end of the article, it is mentioned that once the softwares are installed by the scripts, the memory usage would drop to 4-5MB on a Debian 32 bit system . I bought an MICRO VPS plan (80 MB running Debian 5.0 32 Bit) from Quickweb , but even after i ran the script the top utility reports that i have used around 40000k memory, thats 40 MB . Should i be looking at any other utility to find out the right memory usage , or am i missing something here ?

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By: scotty

scotty — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:44:37 +0000

Thanks for the great script!

I tried dropbear but it doesn’t play nice with git and none of the fixes I’ve seen work for me so I’ve abandoned it for just now.
Seemingly the ulimit -s limit isn’t honoured by default ssh configurations, a bit of googling found me:

UsePrivilegeSeparation = no

Which will have ssh respecting your limits. Dropped ~3MB VSZ with that, google for the connotations.

By: cling[y]

cling[y] — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:40:40 +0000

Thanks for the script!

By: IWTFI

IWTFI — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:39:59 +0000

hey lowenbox. release more scripts!

By: LowEndAdmin

LowEndAdmin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:05:08 +0000

Thanks. Fixed. Last time I checked spelling was not in the list of virtues of programmers :)

By: Tyler

Tyler — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:48:36 +0000

Thanks for this :)

Btw you spelled virtues wrong :p (virues)

By: IWTFI

IWTFI — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:41:05 +0000

btw something you forgot on the script..

By: IWTFI

IWTFI — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:39:15 +0000

it will better to start some tutorial series, like:

1) vps start configuration
2) lighttpd and php install
3) mysql and bind install
4) postfix install and full configuration for virtual domains
6) (whatever else you think)
5) security tricks/tips

let me know what you think.

By: LowEndAdmin

LowEndAdmin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:22:06 +0000

@Moi — the main issue I found with rsyslogd is its VSZ which is a lot greater than RSS. Although it might not use that much memory, it is still bad on an OpenVZ system where privvmpages counts the pages that are allocated.

@dne — thanks for the suggestion.

By: dne

dne — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:19:59 +0000

Instead of “rm -rf /bin/sh”, I’d recommend “dpkg-divert –rename /bin/sh”.

By: Moi

Moi — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:07:48 +0000

You install inetutils-syslog as default syslogger, how do you think about limiting rsyslogd by using ulimit -s 128? Is it safe to do that?

By: LowEndAdmin

LowEndAdmin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:27:02 +0000

Arg. Link fixed.

As of security — that really depends on your need (setting up sudoer, creating users, setting up firewalls). I have my scripts for those but I prefer not to show them :)

By: victor

victor — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:42:34 +0000

Download link is broken.
…/scirpts/lowend-debian.sh
should be
…/scripts/lowend-debian.sh
:)

By: Neves

Neves — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:26:39 +0000

Nice, but there is no security setup by default. What do you do?