dmmcintyre3

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by dmmcintyre3 15y ago
I'm running nginx, PHP-FPM, MySQL, NSD, exim, UnrealIRCD, ZNC, and thttpd for CGIs on my 128mb VPS, and it uses around 50mb RAM. It only goes up to over 64mb used when my file/database backup script is running. The only thing I don't run on
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by dmmcintyre3 15y ago
webmin uses more ram than nginx (my webserver) does on my VPS.
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by dmmcintyre3 15y ago
I don't find it hard to manage vhosts, dns records and databases by hand. What I do: each site gets it's own nginx config file, domain.name.conf (replace domain.name with real domain) databases get prefixed with the domain name (replace . w
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by dmmcintyre3 15y ago
My $3/month VPS has 500gb transfer, and it's not the cheapest around.
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by dmmcintyre3 15y ago
Why would you use apache for static sites? Did you even read the article? It uses lighttpd.
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by dmmcintyre3 15y ago
a $7/month 1gb VPS is going to be really oversold in ost cases. My 128MB VPS is $3 a month and runs my MyBB forum great. Apachebench on the 128mb VPS to a static page: Document Path: /index.html Document Length: 1046 bytes C
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by dmmcintyre3 15y ago
My main VPS has 128mb RAM and is running a MyBB forum which gets 80k pageviews a month. If I dropped the PHP, MySQL, IRC stuff and email server I could run it on 16-32mb except when updating the software on the VPS.
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by dmmcintyre3 15y ago
Unless you own a web host (that includes just hosting frineds/family) there is NO reason for cPanel (or other panels) except you not knowing how to run a server