LowEndBox

Replacing That Big Fat Bash

Feb 09, 2009

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 a half-dozen or more concurrent ssh sessions, plus you're su'ed on a couple of them, etc... it can be a significant help. Indeed. Bash, which is the default interactive shell on most (if not all) Linux distributions, has pre...

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

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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...