I’ve talked with the technicians from the company I have a VPS with now and it seems that they tell me it’s pretty normal for a 256MB RAM server.
I have HyperVM + LXAdmin installed on default, in which there are no websites and no configuration done to the site.
It currently is using 61% of RAM available (256MB) and I haven’t done anything with it yet.
Is it really normal for it to be using this much RAM, and might there be any solution for this?
Answer
This is normal. Linux servers will always sit on RAM for caching. As long as you are not going into your burstable RAM regualarly, I wouldn’t worry much about it. Linux servers “sit” on RAM, you have to also take into consideration, although a small amount, running LXAdmin is still using your RAM.
I would like to ask you what software I need to control VPS - stop it when it expires the owner’s account and he must pay agan to use it.
Software must work with VMware, Solaris conteiners (xVM server), Virtuozzo and etc.
What software for billing the VPS can you recommend me?
Is there a second way to control the access to the VPSs? Can I install hardware firewall before the servers witch host VPSs and install billing software on that firewall so when the owner don’t pay for the VPS the firewall cuts the access to the VPS.
Please explain me in that case what software I have to use.
1. the cheapest VPS control panel i know is hypervm, although it doesn’t support VMware, it only support xen and openvz (open source version of virtuozzo). The task of shutting down the connection can be done from the control panel. you can use clientexec or whmcs for billing your clients.
2. Well, the other way is manually create start and stop the VPSs - when the billing software show me a message that the owner didn’t pay for the VPS I manually to stop the VPS - very hard way.
Does anybody have a better idea?
3. The cheapests are free and in open source.
By the way there is no such thing as a “hardware firewall”, ALL OF THEM are in fact using NetBSD/FreeBSD/Linux and hide that fact.
You don’t need to firewall the VPS, when they can simply be shutdown by your control panel when they expire. All modern VPS control panels, including the ones you could find directly in Debian, will have this (very basic) feature.
Can someone tell me, Whats burtable Ram? And Ram and other feartures that VPSs Have that resellers dont?
Burstable RAM is basically RAM that is shared between yourself and other VPS’s on the same node.
For example, you can have 512MB guaranteed RAM and 1024MB burstable RAM. This means that no matter what, that 512MB RAM is yours, no one else can touch that. Now, if you started to run an application that required more than 512MB RAM, you could start to use that 1024MB burstable RAM, but other users who have VPS’s on the same physical machine as you can also use that RAM, so you won’t be able to use all of it (depending on whether or not there are others using it). Burstable RAM is commonly used on OpenVZ virtualization platforms.
The alternative is Swap space, which is often used on the Xen platform. Swap space, like guaranteed RAM, belongs to you, no one else can use it. However, it isn’t actually RAM, its part of your hard disk that has been partitioned off to act like RAM, but since it comes from your HD, its much slower.
Hi.
I want to host two blogs. Here are my requirements
1. 2 wordpress blogs
2. Expecting around 1000-1500 visitors a day (Extreme peak times considering i am just starting my blogs)
3. I wont provide any upload/ download/ videos
4. I may stream videos from you tube and related
5. I do not have any knowledge of root access or whatever vps companies talk about. I have experience installing wordpress on shared hosting sites only (Upload it to public_html folder)
So do i need a VPS or just a shared hosing?
here are my picks for
SHARED HOSTING
Bluehost/hostgator/inmotionhosting
Grid service
mediatemple
VPS
vpslink.com/cheapvps.co.uk/slicehost.com
(Most offer close to 256 Mb ram and 300 Gb bandwidth per month for my budget (20$ per month))
Any idea how much RAM i should look for?
Can you suggest?
I think it really depends how quickly you expect them to grow. $20/mo is a very realistic budget. This can get you a fairly high-end shared account or a low end VPS. Personally, I would go for a VPS, as that gives you more control, and a bit more breathing room to grow. “grid hosting” is really just clustered shared hosting. The same kind of limits a traditional shared jpsting account has would apply.
That said, a VPS will require you to have some knowledge of managing a server, so depending on your comfort level, you might want to look into a managed VPS. If you are comfortable with it, I’d go with slicehost or linode, as they both have a great offering. If you need managed, KnownHost all the way!
Another opinion:
You should get a cheap VPS With like plesk or something so its not alot of money only if your going to use it and host that stuff you have. Also get to know a little more about VPS if your going to get one and dont know too much about them.
After the negative hostgator review that I have posted few days ago. I found another hostgator review but this time it seems very honest to me. Cisco was the user who reviewed hostgator as initial impression. Very well done and very straight forward:
I recently switched over to HostGator after a horrific experience with HostNine. I ended up leaving HostNine after a period of downtime followed by one of their employees making strange demands of me in exchange for downtime credit. That incident and their snotty staff, overloaded servers, and inadequate WHM replacement resulted in me looking for a new host. After reading some positive reviews of HostGator on WHT I decided to give them a try.
Setup - 10/10
HostGator set up my account instantly, just as HostNine had done. One of HostGator’s staff members called me up and asked me if I needed help migrating my accounts. They went ahead and moved my accounts/files/databases and WHMCS installation over for me. I had been dreading moving WHMCS over because I thought it would be a real pain to set up the new HostGator license but it turned out to be a non-issue. When I originally signed up with HostNine no one bothered to contacted me about migrating my accounts and I had to do it manually.
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I was searching for many Hostgator reviews and found 99% positive but that is too good to be true so at least I have found a customer that is not happy with them. The review came from Josh who had a horrible service with hostgator, I am trying to be neutral in hosting reviews and the best reviews are not the only “positive” ones. Is good to see the good and the bad face of a hosting company so I present you this hostgator review:
About 12 hours ago I ordered a dedicated server through HostGator. During the ordering process I chose PayPal as my payment option (I wasn’t asked for my PayPal email).
Order was complete, nothing was charged. A few minutes later I received a call from a HostGator rep telling me they need my PayPal email to get this going. No problem. I provided the email and was told my server would be up within 24 hours. I also replied to a ticket telling them my PayPal email just to be sure.
-PayPal email given to HostGator twice-
This morning I wake up and see an email from HostGator. I open it up and I see login details. The server is up and ready, right? Of course not.
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Finding out your VPS has been hacked is like walking out to your car, and seeing the gaping hole where your stereo used to be. It hurts, bad.
However there are plenty of steps you can take as a VPS owner to secure your setup. Most of these are fairly basic and can halt the majority of hacking attempts.
If you need help setting up or configuring anything listed below, don’t hesitate to contact support. Who knows, you could get lucky and get me for your tech!
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