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08-24-2011, 11:26 AM #1Junior Guru
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Low End Box - what services do you run?
Hi Guys,
I have 4 low end boxes (128MB RAM), and I basically use them for testing, learning the various distros, software (nsd, postfix, dovecot, etc). Nothing serious.
In a couple of months time, I hope to use them for "production" - e.g. real sites that don't get clobbered every 2-3 weeks :-)
So, my questions to you guys who are running similar specs VPSs (leb, 96mb, etc) - what other services do you run on your VPS beside the LAMP or the LNMP stack?
Do you run:
- dns (eg nsd3)
- mail services (eg. postfix, dovecot)
- ftpd
- or any other services on your VPS?
Or just the LAMP/LNMP stack?
Cheers!
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08-24-2011, 11:29 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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ftp - big nono. use sftp/scp/ssh
mail - i use rackspace for mail
dns - use a third party provider
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08-24-2011, 11:37 AM #3Junior Guru
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Hi QuantumPhysics,
So I gather you only run the LAMP/LNMP stack on your vps?
which dns provider do you use? Your Domain Name Registrar?
Thanks!
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08-24-2011, 11:39 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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I prefer my mail services on Google actually. For $50/year you can't beat the services.
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08-24-2011, 11:46 AM #5Web Hosting Master
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Zerigo/8x8 , Amazon Route 53, or DME
I mostly deal with pgsql as opposed to mysql, but yeah, that's about it.
I really do not recommend mail services running locally in any form, because other people do it better and more competently. You try running filtering or something in 128MB you're going to kill your box/resources. If you don't run either, have fun talking to nigeria and drowning in spam.
Even on production stuff (x-xxGB range memory, not low end) I wouldn't run mail locally.
Free: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html http://domains.live.com/
I don't want to deal with the headache or the BS of dealing with mail and all of the fun things that come with it.
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08-24-2011, 11:52 AM #6Junior Guru
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08-24-2011, 11:54 AM #7Web Hosting Master
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paid - http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html
free - http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html (10 accounts)
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08-24-2011, 11:58 AM #8Junior Guru
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lol ... that's funny! But very true!
Thanks for the link, appreciate it!
Cheers!
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08-24-2011, 11:59 AM #9Web Hosting Master
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btw - it used to be 50 accounts, but changed to 10.
old domains are grandfathered in at 50.
in either case, if this is primarily for you, you can just make one mailbox or two mailbox and just alias sales@ whatever@ hello@ (infinite) all to one
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08-24-2011, 01:02 PM #10Junior Guru
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08-24-2011, 01:37 PM #11Web Hosting Evangelist
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Overall got 2 128mb boxes (1 xen, 1 openvz). One I use for some free VOIP (That would be xen) for Mumble, TS, Ventrilo emulated by wine. Second (openvz) is VPN (PPTP), Nginx with Piwik, file streaming and rsync backups.
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08-24-2011, 04:44 PM #12Aspiring Evangelist
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Depends on the project, but I've used them in the past for DNS, mail, and low traffic web servers. They're also perfect for failover VMs (in case a main site goes down, at least there's a VM ready to cutover with the static content), and for low-resource backup/archive systems.
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08-24-2011, 06:10 PM #13Web Hosting Guru
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3rd DNS and mx backup.
- do it your self.
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08-24-2011, 07:25 PM #14Hello World
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I have used LEB 128MB Ram VPSes - For DNS (cPanel DNS ONLY) and single websites used with Kloxo
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Zabbix Enterprise 24/7 Monitoring.
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08-24-2011, 07:31 PM #15Aspiring Evangelist
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what's running on just one of my 128mb VPSs?
nginx, php, mysql, pptpd, exim (outgoing only) and nsd (part of my 3 server cluster, not a single box has more than 128mb and one has 96mb). It runs a site which brings in more money per month than it costs per year.
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08-24-2011, 08:14 PM #16Disabled
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On my current LEB I have Apache2 and Transmission for torrents installed - Along with SSH ofcourse.
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08-24-2011, 10:30 PM #17Web Hosting Master
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08-24-2011, 10:46 PM #18Newbie
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Since you are trying out distributions right now, you might want to look at FreeBSD. I think it does better with low memory than most Linux distributions. I generally try to run NTP as well. It doesn't use much memory and provides verifiable time services.
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08-25-2011, 09:29 AM #19Web Hosting Evangelist
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debian, nginx, mysql, php, postfix/dovecot/spamassassin, nsd3, vsftpd, and occasionally openvpn. Runs at about 90-100MB idle.
Oh, and maybe 1 or 2 spam mails get through my filters each week. SPAM is NOT a problem on a 128MB VPS unless you're getting a large volume of mail. Here are my mail stats for this week thus far ...
Code:Grand Totals ------------ messages 404 received 493 delivered 4 forwarded 0 deferred 0 bounced 607 rejected (55%) 0 reject warnings 0 held 0 discarded (0%) 9066k bytes received 9970k bytes delivered 95 senders 68 sending hosts/domains 36 recipients 8 recipient hosts/domains Per-Day Traffic Summary date received delivered deferred bounced rejected -------------------------------------------------------------------- Aug 21 2011 26 17 0 0 134 Aug 22 2011 160 296 0 0 161 Aug 23 2011 122 100 0 0 162 Aug 24 2011 92 76 0 0 141 Aug 25 2011 4 4 0 0 9
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