December 19, 2009 @ 4:30 am Well. Not much cheap deals going on at the moment nor do I have anything useful to write about. So here is just some questions to ask everyone (that have been asked by one of the readers in the emails in the past). How do you monitor your low end virtual servers? My personal setup [...]
HyperVM and Kloxo Now Open Sourced, Hosted at LxCenter
Early in June I posted RIP KT Ligesh of LxLabs, as the owner of LxLabs passed away leaving behind two great products that pretty much created this “low end virtual server” industry — HyperVM and Kloxo (formerly known as LxAdmin). Their future were cloudy back then, but it appears that there is at least some [...]
Using a Low End VPS as SeedBox Hosting
Saw quite a few visitors coming from Whirlpool.net.au, an Australian community forum, from a post asking about seedbox hosting. Now, the term “seedbox” was foreign to me until a few months ago. According to this Wikipedia entry, A seedbox is a private dedicated server used for the uploading and downloading of digital files. Seedboxes generally [...]
Replacing Big Fat Bash with Dash for Scripting
A while a go I looked at Bash replacements for interactive shells. Unfortunately for me, I am just getting too used to having Bash on the command line and can’t get myself used to other shells. However, interactive shell is one thing, and scripting shell is another. If your scripts are compatible with the original [...]
Replacing That Big Fat Bash
It’s actually a tip from Lincoln, who emailed me last month: Another idea is to replace bash (~4M/instance) with pdksh (~1M/instance). It doesn’t sound like much, but if you’re like me and you’re have a half-dozen or more concurrent ssh sessions, plus you’re su’ed on a couple of them, etc… it can be a significant [...]
Getting Rid of A in LAMP for Your Low End VPS
Got your dirt cheap VPS with only 64MB guaranteed memory on OpenVZ? Want to move your WordPress blog from some insanely oversold shared hosting to your shining low end box? If you follow the “traditional way” of setting up a Linux web server — installing Apache, MySQL and Mod_PHP — you will soon find that [...]
Reducing MySQL Memory Usage for Low End Boxes
MySQL is pretty much the de facto database engine for most open source scripts, and it is almost-always installed on hosted servers. However the default MySQL installation on Debian/Ubuntu takes around 25MB RSS on a cold-start. Well, not too bad I guess, unless you are running a tight ship with only 64MB of total memory. [...]
Replacing OpenSSH with Dropbear
When you are using a low-end server with only 64MB of memory, sometimes you just have to look for alternate software packages with less bloat to leave more memory for your (often more bloated) applications. OpenSSH is the essential application on a Linux/xBSD server, however I think it is eating up one or two more [...]