Running a web server on 256 RAM

[James Matthews]

Thanks for everything.

2009/3/16 CLIFFORD ILKAY <clifford_ilkay at dinamis.com>

> James Matthews wrote:
> > I am wondering if I am able to run a webserver (Apache,MySql) for my
> > wordpress blog and django site on 256 megs ram. Yes I know everything is
> > possible however I wish to upgrade from shared hosting to a VPS
> > (Slicehost or Linode I didn't decide yet....) and I am wondering if it
> > will work out.
>
> As long as you don't expect much traffic, it'll be fine but 256M for
> that software stack is really pretty minimal. Substituting nginx
> (lightpd apparently leaks a lot of memory) for Apache will reduce your
> resource consumption considerably but you'll have to serve WP via fcgi.
> For Django, you have the option of fcgi or mod_wsgi.
>
> You should be aware that on some distros, running mod_php and mod_python
> at the same time with Apache can be problematic due to them being linked
> to incompatible versions of the MySQL libraries. It doesn't even matter
> if you use MySQL. It still causes problems. If I recall, the symptom for
> PHP was white screens and for Django, a 500 error code being returned.
>
> In our hosting operation, we're moving people away from hosting their
> own database servers in their own VPS. Database servers can require
> considerable resources to perform well and it makes more sense to have
> one instance of the database server with lots of resources allocated to
> it to which various users from various shared accounts or VPS can
> connect rather than having one instance of a database server running per
> VPS where you're going to have minimal resources allocated to the
> database server. In other words, there are economies of scale with
> database servers that I think people ignore all for the illusion of
> control. It requires a bit of coordination between us and the hosting
> client but the payoff is that they get a database server that is bound
> to perform better than anything they can host in their own VPS.
> --
> Regards,
>
> Clifford Ilkay
> Dinamis
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>
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