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HyperVM and Kloxo Now Open Sourced, Hosted at LxCenter

Aug 01, 2009

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 hope. Today I received an email from Arthur Thornton from LxCenter, the new home for the now-open-sourced HyperVM a...

HyperVM and Kloxo Now Open Sourced, Hosted at LxCenter

Using a Low End VPS as SeedBox Hosting

LEA

Jul 16, 2009

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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. Accord...

Yes, You Can Run 18 Static Sites on a 64MB Link-1 VPS

LEA

Mar 18, 2009

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One thing I hated about WebHostingTalk is how much bad advice the so-called "professionals" are giving out to the world. Some poor college student asked in the VPS forums whether he is able to run 18...

Yes, You Can Run 18 Static Sites on a 64MB Link-1 VPS

Replacing Big Fat Bash with Dash for Scripting

LEA

Mar 15, 2009

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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. Howeve...

Replacing Big Fat Bash with Dash for Scripting

Replacing That Big Fat Bash

LEA

Feb 09, 2009

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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...

Getting Rid of A in LAMP for Your Low End VPS

LEA

Sep 11, 2008

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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 "traditio...

Getting Rid of A in LAMP for Your Low End VPS

Stick to 32 Bit For Your Low End Box

LEA

May 07, 2008

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When you go and find a cheap low end Linux virtual server, the criteria usually involve price (very important!), location (for low latency SSH access), virtualization (Xen vs. OpenVZ?), etc. However t...

Reducing MySQL Memory Usage for Low End Boxes

LEA

Apr 15, 2008

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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 aroun...

Reducing MySQL Memory Usage for Low End Boxes

Replacing OpenSSH with Dropbear

LEA

Mar 30, 2008

Comments (14)

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) applica...