A common problem with managing multiple servers is keeping their configurations identical (or similar, depending on the purpose of the servers). When you set up a server (say server1), you tweak the configuration by hand and when you set up another server (server2) you do the same. But then there's this setting you need to change on server2, which you then forget to change on server1. A different ecosystem was born. What...
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There are many ways to remotely monitor your servers, but nagios is one of the most configurable and flexible ones. Once you have set up nagios, your localhost is being checked. But when there are rea...
Read MoreNagios is one of the most easy, expandable and trustworthy ways to monitor the status of your server(s). It is highly configurable and even lets you write your own plugins in whatever language you wan...
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So you think your OpenVZ VPS really has "guaranteed memory"? Well. Not quite. I have got an OpenVZ VPS from one of the providers listed here -- 256MB guaranteed and 512MB burstable memory. When I run...
Read MoreAny user of Version Control System? When I started as a programmer back in the 90's it was RCS. Then moved to CVS when I joined my first start up. About 5 years ago I moved everything -- work projects...
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One constantly posted question on LowEndBox and LowEndTalk is -- how to get the same setup as LowEndBox, a WordPress site that runs on cheap VPS with 80MB of memory? Instead of doing a step-by-step ex...
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Saw this discussion on WHT today when someone tries to confirm whether "32bit systems are better when it comes to memory management", and when it comes to low end virtual servers, which of 32bit or 64...
Read MoreWell. Not much cheap deals going on at the moment nor do I have anything useful to write about. So here is just some questions to ask everyone (that have been asked by one of the readers in the emails...
Read MoreJust a small tips for those trying to run multiple threaded applications on OpenVZ. Personally I code quite a few multi-threaded applications in Python (as some things are just too hard to do asynchro...
Read MoreIt was fun setting up your very own server. I remembered the time when I received the root password to my very first virtual server back in March 2006 ($22/month for a merely 192MB of memory), it took...
Read MoreEarly 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 Klox...
Read MoreSaw 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...
Read MoreOne 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...
Read MoreA 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...
Read MoreIt'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...
Read MoreGot 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...
Read MoreWhen 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...
Read MoreMySQL 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...
Read MoreWhen 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...
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