[ale] VPS or not

[David Hillman]

I just signed up for the cheapest Linode package in the Atlanta area.  It is
so fast, Apache, MySQL and a couple of sites are already on it.  I usually
use Apache, but Lighttpd looks interesting.

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 1:56 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>wrote:

> Agreed. I just started my second year of Linode service. I have had
> zero problems with the service, and my questions (relating to how OS
> upgrades would work and billing) were answered promptly and
> thoroughly.
>
> I'm sure the outgoing bandwidth for a node is limited (100Mb?), but
> incoming doesn't seem to be. I pull updates from the GATech Debian
> mirror so fast it's like they didn't even download. Of course, my node
> is located in the Atlanta facility (you get to pick which data center
> you want).
>
> As for reliability, my node was running non-stop (at least according
> to `uptime`) for ~340 days before I had to reboot for a kernel
> upgrade. I'm running three Wordpress sites (and a couple other
> non-Wordpress) via Lighttpd, with MySQL on the same node, and
> everything is smooth and quick. I use the Linode 768 package.  Here
> are some current stats:
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>  # ps_mem.py
>  Private  +   Shared  =  RAM used       Program
>
>  84.0 KiB +  26.0 KiB = 110.0 KiB       logger
>  92.0 KiB +  31.5 KiB = 123.5 KiB       getty
> 172.0 KiB +  21.5 KiB = 193.5 KiB       mysqld_safe
> 168.0 KiB +  41.5 KiB = 209.5 KiB       init
> 288.0 KiB +  49.0 KiB = 337.0 KiB       cron
> 276.0 KiB + 111.0 KiB = 387.0 KiB       su
> 428.0 KiB +  48.5 KiB = 476.5 KiB       exim4
> 260.0 KiB + 314.5 KiB = 574.5 KiB       ntpd (2)
> 776.0 KiB + 132.0 KiB = 908.0 KiB       rrdtool
> 840.0 KiB +  82.0 KiB = 922.0 KiB       rsyslogd
> 800.0 KiB +   1.1 MiB =   1.8 MiB       sshd (3)
>  1.9 MiB + 807.0 KiB =   2.7 MiB       bash (2)
>  3.2 MiB + 212.0 KiB =   3.4 MiB       lighttpd
>  44.2 MiB + 187.0 KiB =  44.4 MiB       mysqld
>  51.0 MiB +  44.8 MiB =  95.8 MiB       php5-cgi (12)
> ---------------------------------
>                        152.2 MiB
> =================================
>
>  Private  +   Shared  =  RAM used       Program
>
>  # cat /proc/meminfo
> MemTotal:         769672 kB
> MemFree:           33412 kB
> Buffers:           70124 kB
> Cached:           521288 kB
> SwapCached:          116 kB
> Active:           438852 kB
> Inactive:         254980 kB
> Active(anon):      56592 kB
> Inactive(anon):    45840 kB
> Active(file):     382260 kB
> Inactive(file):   209140 kB
> Unevictable:           0 kB
> Mlocked:               0 kB
> HighTotal:         47112 kB
> HighFree:            160 kB
> LowTotal:         722560 kB
> LowFree:           33252 kB
> SwapTotal:        524280 kB
> SwapFree:         524164 kB
> Dirty:                68 kB
> Writeback:             0 kB
> AnonPages:        102312 kB
> Mapped:            53676 kB
> Shmem:                12 kB
> Slab:              29772 kB
> SReclaimable:      24584 kB
> SUnreclaim:         5188 kB
> KernelStack:         976 kB
> PageTables:         1736 kB
> NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
> Bounce:                0 kB
> WritebackTmp:          0 kB
> CommitLimit:      909116 kB
> Committed_AS:     350444 kB
> VmallocTotal:     122880 kB
> VmallocUsed:        4412 kB
> VmallocChunk:     118400 kB
> DirectMap4k:      739320 kB
> DirectMap2M:           0 kB
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 12:34 -0400, David Hillman wrote:
> >> Anybody using Linode or Slicehost
> >
> > I'm a Linode user, and have been for about the past year.
> >
> >> and happy about the experience?
> >
> > Quite.  More than I can express.  They're reliable and you can do some
> > pretty interesting and complex thing with them.
>
>
> --
> James Sumners
> http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/
>
> "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
> pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
> is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
> drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
>
> Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
> CH:D 59
>
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