Bought new virtual server
I have bought a new virtual server from VPSLink a couple of days back. It runs OpenVZ for virtualization. It provides me with 20GB of hard disk space, 512MB of RAM running on a Intel Xeon processor. Looks like a bit less for an extensive server. I have associated the server with one of the domain names that I own, discs.in. Lately, I will be moving my site praveen.ws to that server as well depending on how well it scales. Right now, I have installed Debian Sarge on the server. I run ssh, vsftpd, cfingerd, apache2, exim4 and squirrelmail. No plans for telnet, SSL enabled services. Still am confused if I should have bought it or not. But I bought it in a huge discount.
I considered a lot before about buying a VPS. But then, I am content with nearlyfreespeech.net account and my home laptop being used for other purposes (like long-running processes) behind dyndns.
Comment by Sridhar Ratna — June 29, 2006 @ 9:33 pm
Looks very interesting. $8/mo is something SOHOs can easily afford! Not me, though
Comment by Suraj — June 29, 2006 @ 10:17 pm
Yeah, but I am really concerned about the RAM. If I don’t tweak Apache2 and mysql settings and run them as I get, just those two accounts for 348 MB of RAM usage. What all I have is 512 MB. No swap available. If I exceed 512 MB, I will get nasty memory allocation failures
Comment by praveen — June 30, 2006 @ 5:53 am
[...] All the services are now moved to my new (virtual) server from VPSlink. Eventhough I bought this almost a month back, I had to setup and try various things before moving all my web services here. [...]
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