First off, with 128MB of RAM I think it qualifies as more of a VPS (Virtual Private Server) than a full linux server but anyway....This thread is about the amazing number of things you can do with such limited hardware, linux, and a low budget (more on that later).
Basically, the server is running Ubuntu 11.04 (x86), 15GB HDD, 1TB monthly bandwidth, and 128MB dedicated ram but can go up to 256MB (burst). After getting root SSH access and updating the OS, the system was using 12MB of RAM at idle, which is extremely low. The only catch is I stopped the Apache service and uninstalled the DNS service because I don't need it. After reconfiguring Apache + PHP to my liking, I restarted it and my VPS was still only using ~30MB/128MB. Setting up a FTP server on it (vsftpd) only cost me 1MB. Installing a VoIP server (Teamspeak 3) ate a little bit more at an additional 40MB but that still brought my total to 70MB/128MB. Next I installed fail2ban which is a server hardening/security suite, which uses about 40MB so I was at 110MB/128MB. And finally, I installed a VPN server (OpenVPN), and that only uses ~4-5MB as well.
In general, I am very surprised how many applications I can run simultaneously on such a budget server....Yes when people are actually connected to teamspeak, FTP, or the VPN, those programs take a little more RAM but I am still under my dedicated RAM quota and don't even touch my burst RAM....Also, CentOS and Ngix seem to be more popular now but I am used to Ubuntu and Apache so that is what I stuck with
UPDATE: FastVPS.co is VERY unreliable I've found....I am about to post a detailed negative review on them on another forum but basically, STAY AWAY. Not sure what I was expecting for $1/month....Check out 123systems.net instead. As recommended to me earlier in this topic, they are very much more reliable....30+ days of uptime so far while my VPS with FastVPS.co was restarting everyday and if I got 48 hour uptime, that was a surprise.....123systems.net is also cheap, for example, I get 256MB RAM for $20/year so still very affordable
Edited by TrueTroop - 5/4/12 at 3:20pm
Basically, the server is running Ubuntu 11.04 (x86), 15GB HDD, 1TB monthly bandwidth, and 128MB dedicated ram but can go up to 256MB (burst). After getting root SSH access and updating the OS, the system was using 12MB of RAM at idle, which is extremely low. The only catch is I stopped the Apache service and uninstalled the DNS service because I don't need it. After reconfiguring Apache + PHP to my liking, I restarted it and my VPS was still only using ~30MB/128MB. Setting up a FTP server on it (vsftpd) only cost me 1MB. Installing a VoIP server (Teamspeak 3) ate a little bit more at an additional 40MB but that still brought my total to 70MB/128MB. Next I installed fail2ban which is a server hardening/security suite, which uses about 40MB so I was at 110MB/128MB. And finally, I installed a VPN server (OpenVPN), and that only uses ~4-5MB as well.
In general, I am very surprised how many applications I can run simultaneously on such a budget server....Yes when people are actually connected to teamspeak, FTP, or the VPN, those programs take a little more RAM but I am still under my dedicated RAM quota and don't even touch my burst RAM....Also, CentOS and Ngix seem to be more popular now but I am used to Ubuntu and Apache so that is what I stuck with
UPDATE: FastVPS.co is VERY unreliable I've found....I am about to post a detailed negative review on them on another forum but basically, STAY AWAY. Not sure what I was expecting for $1/month....Check out 123systems.net instead. As recommended to me earlier in this topic, they are very much more reliable....30+ days of uptime so far while my VPS with FastVPS.co was restarting everyday and if I got 48 hour uptime, that was a surprise.....123systems.net is also cheap, for example, I get 256MB RAM for $20/year so still very affordable
Edited by TrueTroop - 5/4/12 at 3:20pm
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. I haven't ever made a server (I plan on it in the future) so I am sure that there are better ideas out there.
