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.
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.
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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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I have found over the years that it is anoying when you update the hostname on a server running cpanel and cpanel gives you an invalid licence error, if you want to change the hostname on a cpanel server then
- 1) log into shell with root
- 2) type “hostname (then at the end put anything you want as your hostname, but it must be something.yourdomain.xxx please be aware that the something will show as the server name in cpanel
- 3) type /usr/local/cpanel/cpkeyclt
Then just load cpanel as you would normaly, but dont forget to add an a entry for the new hostname.
You Can also Read: How To: Install and Configure a GUI on your Linux VPS
This post have been posted by SEAN of Zone.net. All copywrites goes to him.
This seems to be a topic that appears often on the VPS forum, so I thought I would get around to posting a simple instruction set for getting a GUI (GNOME or KDE) working on your VPS.
These instructions are aimed towards the Fedora distribution, but should work fine with CentOS or any other Linux distro (except maybe RHEL, which has some extra steps):
Firstly, make sure that you have YUM installed, if not, you have to go find the RPM for YUM via google or rpmfind.net, and do an “rpm -Uvh < . file .rpm .>” (remove the dots) once you get it. YUM works off python, so it’s not a binary just a bunch of scripts (so arch. doesnt matter).
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Here is a general list of things, from a client point of view, what really every host should strive for, and what every client should be looking for in a host.
- 1. choose a VPS provider who’s datacenter is geographically close to your target audience. Also a host that is fairly close to you, since you’ll be the one accessing the VPS the most.
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