LowEndBox

Bootstraping Low End VPS with Pre-built Scripts

Sep 16, 2009

It 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 me hours setting it up to exactly the way I wanted. At the end of the day when it started to pump out my websites on TCP port 80 -- joy! Well. It's still fun the second time around when I moved hosting, but it wasn't the sam...

LEA

Aug 01, 2009

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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 Klox...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

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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...

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...

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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...

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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...

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