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[BlueOrchard]

Hello everybody!

I was wondering how I could get the most out of my VPS. Currently, I have the Future Hosting VM5 cPanel Managed VPS plan. I was wondering what I could to and what settings I should tweak in order to get the most out of my hosting.

Thanks.

[semoweb]

May I ask why are you asking this? Are you facing any issues at the moment?
Have you already secured this vps? Its a managed vps, ensure that it has been properly secured and as you throw sites on there they should be able to tweak anything needed as it becomes lives, you will then notice what needs to be (adjusted)

[BigScoots-Scott]

So much of the term "optimization" gets generalized to the VPS resources specifically. A big part of having a smoothly functioning VPS is what ever you are doing on it, ensuring those applications be up to date. If its managed, you should have already had the OS and SQL optimized when it was provisioned.

Post some benchmarks and lets see what you're working with. Perhaps then we could offer some input as to what it should be running at.

[kpmedia]

It's not good to give advice without knowing what exactly is being hosted. What works for one type of site would be horrible (opposite of optimized) for another. So details are required -- and that's a good reason to use the host's management, or to hire an indy admin or admin service.

[BlueOrchard]

Originally Posted by BigScoots-Scott

So much of the term "optimization" gets generalized to the VPS resources specifically. A big part of having a smoothly functioning VPS is what ever you are doing on it, ensuring those applications be up to date. If its managed, you should have already had the OS and SQL optimized when it was provisioned.

Post some benchmarks and lets see what you're working with. Perhaps then we could offer some input as to what it should be running at.

How do I post my benchmarks?

[BlueOrchard]

Originally Posted by kpmedia

It's not good to give advice without knowing what exactly is being hosted. What works for one type of site would be horrible (opposite of optimized) for another. So details are required -- and that's a good reason to use the host's management, or to hire an indy admin or admin service.

It's the host you recommended me I was just wondering how to get the most out of it because I don't see much of a performance gain compared to my previous shared hosting plan.

[kpmedia]

Well, it really depends on the content. That's what I'm getting at. I could suggest disabling innodb from MySQL, but if you need innodb for your CMS (like Magento), then that's not a very good suggestion after all. So that's where my advice comes in. You could also opt to add nginx or Unixy Varnish, but again -- the usefulness of said features depends on what's being run. I don't remember what your sites were using, if I ever knew.

[BlueOrchard]

Originally Posted by kpmedia

Well, it really depends on the content. That's what I'm getting at. I could suggest disabling innodb from MySQL, but if you need innodb for your CMS (like Magento), then that's not a very good suggestion after all. So that's where my advice comes in. You could also opt to add nginx or Unixy Varnish, but again -- the usefulness of said features depends on what's being run. I don't remember what your sites were using, if I ever knew.

Is it safe to post my site here for you to take a look at it?

Oh and I use the Wordpress CMS.