Zein: Making the most out of a 64MB VPS — how Ahmed tuned his 64MB Xen VPS from VPS Village to run Lighttpd, PHP/FastCGI and MySQL. He was also trying to get a Ruby on Rails app running but OOM seems inevitable. Great article on getting PHP applications like WordPress running on a minimal VPS.
I am taking a similar approach tuning my 64MB VPS from Virtual-Dedicated.net, except:
- PHP 5.2 does not need a parent monitoring process if
PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN => 0. Therefore I am running 2x PHP/FastCGI processes withmaxprocs => 2andPHP_FCGI_CHILDREN => 0. - I haven’t bothered to run any query cache on MySQL. Or maybe I should :)
- SSHD is replaced with Dropbear running off Xinetd, which saves me 1MB idle, and 1MB for every SSH connection.
LEA (LowEndAdmin) is the original founder of LowEndBox and the visionary who gave rise to an entire movement around minimalist, efficient hosting. In 2008, LEA launched LowEndBox with a simple but powerful idea: that it was possible to run meaningful applications, web servers, VPNs, mail servers, and more – on small, low-cost virtual machines with minimal resources.
At a time when most infrastructure discussions were dominated by high-end servers and enterprise platforms, LEA championed the opposite approach: lightweight Linux distros, self-managed servers, open source software, and thoughtful optimization. This philosophy gave birth to the term “Low End Box”, which would come to define a new genre of hosting tailored to developers, tinkerers, and budget-conscious users around the world.
Through LowEndBox and its companion forum, LowEndTalk, LEA built the foundation for what would become one of the most active and enduring communities in the hosting world, prioritizing knowledge-sharing, transparency, and accessibility.
After several years of nurturing the site and community, LEA stepped away from active involvement, passing the torch to a new generation of admins, contributors, and moderators. Today, LEA remains a respected figure in the LowEnd ecosystem, credited with launching a platform and philosophy that continues to influence thousands of infrastructure providers and users globally.
LowEndBox’s legacy, and its thriving community, is a direct result of LEA’s original vision.
I have one VPS from Datarealm bought yesterday, 1 Mbit connection is slow when yum upgrade, VPS setups approx 1 hours, i have asked about adding more RAM, tech support? they seems don’t care about my ticket…