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Although I have stuck with it now for the past 1.5
years and have tweaked things to run ok I ran into memory problems with
vpslink/openvz too. Jeff is right and I didn't know why at the time so I kept messing with it until I decided to move from vpslink-4 to 5 to get up to 1024 memory. That solved the memory problems until over time I added a few more virtual servers and a postfix/dovecot IMAP over ssl/tls setup. I tweaked apache and mysql trying to get them to hold back a bit on memory. Virtualmin and Interchange are PERL based and that eats up memory. Another issue is with fedora or Centos you you cannot let udev get on your system because that has to be managed by openvz because all the devices are virtual. You have to place some excludes in yum.conf to keep udev and others from hopping in with updates. This was recommended in the vpslink forums: exclude=udev kernel* mkinitrd module-init-tools glibc* gcc* MAKEDEV* Other people felt that not having the ability to upgrade the kernel is an issue however the kernel was recently upgraded by vpslink techs and I'm not accomplished enough to mess with the kernel yet anyway. I started on link-4, upgraded to link-5 and now that my server is up to the following I need to move up to 2 gigs of ram so I need to go to link-6 to get that. Hope this table shows up properly in the mailing list:
I Plan to install a fresh centos 5 server on link-6 and move all the virtual servers over to make sure everything is working and before going live on the link-6 setup then drop the link-5 Fortunately I got in under the early adopter price so moving up to vpslink-6 is still viable to me. Though at the higher price I have thought about a dedicated server at the following site: http://www.dedicatedbox.net Anyone have experience with www.dedicatedbox.net ? Here is the most active customers site I have on the vpslink-5 server and it operates very well. This is a heavily moded osCommerce site based on osCMax. http://www.oscmax.com http://www.theraggedfence.com Interchange based sites run pretty well too. http://www.h-s-p.com and http://www.liteking.com the Interchange sites have been stagnant for a while but they purr right along. I get very few errors now and probably when I move to 2048 memory on link-6 I'll get probably no memory errors. Not as snappy as if they were on a dedicated server but very usable none the less. I'm actually very happy with the setup and since virtualmin allows for nightly backups to the Amazon S3 servers I feel fairly secure that if a catastrophic failure occurred I could get everything back up in a reasonable amount of time. This server stuff is really addictive :-) -John ricky@learnautomation.com wrote: 1645.166.217.160.16.1195846524.squirrel@www.learnautomation.com" type="cite">Thanks for the input, Jeff... I'll definitely experiment with those recommendations when I get back home. You cleared up some conceptual errors I had. Before I go too far with this server, I am definitely interested in the reasons why you set VPSLink aside, and am wondering if you have any suggestions for better alternatives. It would be neat to have a VPS box with an IPV6 address for more experimentation if you know anyone who has that option available. This is the first time I've tried VPSLink, and I'm using the XEN hypervisor. I tried OpenVZ, but quickly learned (within hours) that wasn't going to work out for me as well as XEN. The great thing is that there is no rush for this project. My company is currently on a shared hosting plan which will work fine until we figure out the best route to take. I'm definitely open for ideas if anyone knows better options for the price. I've done a lot of PHP work on the site, and some of the scripts are slow to run on the current server, so we are looking for something with "more guaranteed" resources. Take care, Ricky Brycericky@learnautomation.com wrote: |