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I have used micro-controllers, but hosting a webserver on one of them would be a mission! I'm not sure, but I would've thought majority of shared hosting provid

I have used micro-controllers, but hosting a webserver on one of them would be a mission! I'm not sure, but I would've thought majority of shared hosting providers have much higher CPU, RAM and ethernet speeds? When I said "about $50" I did mean about $50 - I'm from Aus and my friend got it for me (+shipping) for over $70AUD - I don't keep track of money that exactly.

adduc 13y ago
There's a whole community built around making the most out of restricted server resources over at http://www.lowendtalk.com/ http://www.lowendtalk.com/ . People very regularly utilize virtual servers with 64MB of RAM, 10mbit or less network, and very minimal disk space. Nginx will run with just about anything you throw at it.
lgeek 13y ago
> I would've thought majority of shared hosting providers have much higher CPU, RAM and ethernet speeds They do, but when you rent a VPS you're essentially getting to use that hardware in timeslices (and you only get a part of the RAM). Depending on provider, the percentage of time your VM is active (and so it gets to use these resources) is either enforced by the hypervisor, is a result of fair scheduling between clients sharing the hardware, or a combination of both. I don't have Cortex-A7 hardware to benchmark and compare the CPU speed with VPSes, but I think it should be close to lower end offerings. 1 GB of RAM is usually not even the lowest offering, e.g. DigitalOcean[0], prgmr[1]. [0] https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing [1] http://prgmr.com/xen/ http://prgmr.com/xen/
Spittie 13y ago
>but I would've thought majority of shared hosting providers have much higher CPU, RAM and ethernet speeds? Not always - for example I have one VPS with 64mb of ram, on a shared 1gbit line, and one with 128mb of ram on a shared 100mbit line. I use them for TT-RSS (nginx + php-apc + php-fpm + postgresql), a self-hosted image uploader (nginx + php-fpm), ZNC and an Irc Bot. You'd be surprised by how few resources nginx (and similiar, like lighttpd) uses.

adduc 13y ago

There's a whole community built around making the most out of restricted server resources over at http://www.lowendtalk.com/ http://www.lowendtalk.com/ . People very regularly utilize virtual servers with 64MB of RAM, 10mbit or less network, and very minimal disk space. Nginx will run with just about anything you throw at it.

lgeek 13y ago

> I would've thought majority of shared hosting providers have much higher CPU, RAM and ethernet speeds They do, but when you rent a VPS you're essentially getting to use that hardware in timeslices (and you only get a part of the RAM). Depending on provider, the percentage of time your VM is active (and so it gets to use these resources) is either enforced by the hypervisor, is a result of fair scheduling between clients sharing the hardware, or a combination of both. I don't have Cortex-A7 hardware to benchmark and compare the CPU speed with VPSes, but I think it should be close to lower end offerings. 1 GB of RAM is usually not even the lowest offering, e.g. DigitalOcean[0], prgmr[1]. [0] https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing [1] http://prgmr.com/xen/ http://prgmr.com/xen/

Spittie 13y ago

>but I would've thought majority of shared hosting providers have much higher CPU, RAM and ethernet speeds? Not always - for example I have one VPS with 64mb of ram, on a shared 1gbit line, and one with 128mb of ram on a shared 100mbit line. I use them for TT-RSS (nginx + php-apc + php-fpm + postgresql), a self-hosted image uploader (nginx + php-fpm), ZNC and an Irc Bot. You'd be surprised by how few resources nginx (and similiar, like lighttpd) uses.