I’m thinking of moving this blog over to joeb454.com
As some of you know, I recently bought a MacBook, and I realised I didn’t have a page up on my .com domain, so I decided to kill 2 birds with 1 stone, and had a play with iWeb ’09. The end result isn’t bad, and moving the blog over to my VPS provider would mean 2 things:
1) I’d actually be using my VPS for something
2) I’d have a more fine grained control over my blog, because I would be hosting it myself. Currently this blog is hosted by wordpress.com
It could mean I’d need to upgrade my VPS package, because currently I only have 384 MB RAM on there. I guess it all depends on how much MySQL decides that it wants to take, though before upgrading I’d look into tweaking some MySQL settings to see if I can reduce the amount it needs.
Ultimately I’d like to do this just because of number 1 above. But also it would teach me some more about Apache, MySQL, possibly PHP. I may also look into changing the site at some point, possibly to a Drupal installation, but we’ll have to wait and see 
Any thought’s on whether you think this would be a worthwhile move, or any recommendations you have on tweaking various settings on the server (it runs Ubuntu 8.04) would be fantastic!
matthew
March 3, 2009 at 18:56
Actually, Apache is the memory lover. There are ways to reduce how much it needs, but if you want to keep using it, you need more memory. I only have 256M in my server, which hosts 8 domains, but I switched to nginx. Since the switch, I haven’t needed more, and the site didn’t even blink the day I had nearly 10,000 hits from StumbleUpon.
Something to think about anyway.
Jacob Peddicord
March 3, 2009 at 20:18
If you put apache into threaded mode instead of the other mode where it just spawns processes, it runs a little better.
You have a good idea of what stuff I have on my server, and even with it all running I’m at 273/540MB right now. There’s a bunch of PHP/CGI processes, some Django instances, my irssi session, mailman, a bunch of Apaches… you get the picture.
You should be able to handle it perfectly with apache, though switching to nginx or lighttpd would help boost performance even more.
Michael
March 5, 2009 at 17:28
I see it runs now Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.5 with Suhosin-Patch.
To me your blog is bloody fast! It runs very smoothly.
Great work & the best of course
Joe
March 5, 2009 at 17:52
Thanks Michael