Comments on: VPS Hosting question

By: JanC

JanC — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:42:15 +0000

Like Kurt Kraut says, it’s perfectly possible to run 1 WordPress site on a system with 64 MiB RAM, if you take the time to configure things properly.

If you don’t want to take the time to learn how to configure the system, then 128 MiB or maybe more might be needed though…

By: Rudd-O

Rudd-O — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:48:56 +0000

Certainly not. Try 256 MB. I work for GPLHost, so you might want to check out our prices and our staff. I myself was running my site on that (then moved to Plone and had to bump the RAM on my VPS).

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By: Rubén Romero

Rubén Romero — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:17:58 +0000

I use slicehost, same Rasleck uses and has been working like a charm for $20 a month.

I run the server with ubuntu on it and thing work great:

* Fantastic documentation
* Great support AND community
* Easy to manage interface (you can even combine several slices in terms of bandwidth)
* Reliable

I have a LAMP install with RoR and Python running some static websites, Drupal (ubuntu.ec), PlanetPlanet and some rndom hacks of mine. At a point I even had the spreadubuntu site running there but we had to change it because it was constantly making me use swap (and we all know that swap use su(/s). I still thought redirect everything to the new site: spread.ubuntu.ec

Suerte!

By: Vadim P.

Vadim P. — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:14:20 +0000

Ubuntu on linode here too. Recommended

By: tuxey

tuxey — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:41:10 +0000

Slicehost is a great service (that’s what I have). Do NOT go with tecktonic, their lowest VPS is non-usable, too slow.

By: Félix Velasco

Félix Velasco — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:36:52 +0000

Using lighhtpd instead of apache, and (very importand) disable InnoDB will allow you to run it in 128M, and even have some unused memory…

By: Frank Groeneveld

Frank Groeneveld — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:29:00 +0000

MySQL uses the most memory on my WP vps box. Even disabling InnoDB couldn’t make it work nicely on 128mb

By: Ralesk

Ralesk — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:20:40 +0000

I use the smallest slice at Slicehost ($20 a month) and it comes with 256 MB of RAM — I can only recommend them The community is great, the service is reliable…

I think if you tweak your system a little, it’ll have a decent footprint.

I run postfix, cyrus, postgresql, jabberd2, lighttpd with php FCGI for some DokuWikis and an ever-present irssi, and I’m still only using 125 MB RAM and about 29 MB swap.

By: Christer Edwards

Christer Edwards — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:03:25 +0000

I’m running the ubuntu-tutorials site on a VPS (linode) with just 360M ram. I average ~10,000 uniques a day on just that one site and the VPS keeps up just fine.

I’m using a lighttpd + fastcgi + mysql setup for my WP installations.

If you haven’t looked at linode, I’d suggest it.