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Tech Stuff - Hosting

January 12th, 2007 by Carl Thomas.

While the Revival Blog is read only by a handful of windmill chargers, I have a couple other websites that get considerably more traffic. The busiest one gets about 750,000 hits a month and uses about 175GB of bandwidth. I had a shared hosting account, then a reseller account and now have a VPS.

My VPS was supposed to have 256Meg of Ram but if you look at the info below you can clearly see that it does not. I am getting more failures than I can stand.

Version: 2.5
uid resource held maxheld barrier limit failcnt
139: kmemsize 10325866 10344255 268435456 268435456 0
lockedpages 0 0 256 256 0
privvmpages 114813 114852 196608 196608 10663
shmpages 859 859 21504 21504 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
numproc 111 111 240 240 704942
physpages 56605 56609 0 2147483647 0
vmguarpages 0 0 65536 2147483647 0
oomguarpages 56605 56609 65536 2147483647 0
numtcpsock 32 37 360 360 0
numflock 11 11 188 206 0
numpty 1 1 16 16 0
numsiginfo 0 1 256 256 0
tcpsndbuf 253568 354888 1720320 2703360 2228
tcprcvbuf 212992 217464 1720320 2703360 79
othersockbuf 30860 33796 1126080 2097152 0
dgramrcvbuf 0 0 268435456 268435456 0
numothersock 27 29 360 360 0
dcachesize 2077041 2089999 3409920 3624960 0
numfile 3707 3720 9312 9312 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
dummy 0 0 0 0 0
numiptent 89 89 2147483647 2147483647 0

Especially look at the numproc and privvmpages. This is with Virpus. Really nice people, though less than stellar service. When I discovered this I put in a service ticket. That was three days ago and no matter how many times I inquire I get no response.

I am now looking at the level II VPS from SLhost. Anyone have any feedback? Does anyone else recommend a managed VPS? I would love a dedicated server but it is way out of my budget.

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3 Responses to “Tech Stuff - Hosting”

  1. Mark H | 12/01/07

    We’ve felt the pain of wanting to go for dedicated servers a number of times. We’ve recently been test-driving Media Temple’s Grid Server and have to say that so far it’s wonderful. They also do VPS, but Grid Server is something else - worth checking out.

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  2. carl | 12/01/07

    I am a little scared to go back to shared hosting. I think I will give them a call. How is that control panel? I am used to CPanel myself. I was going to try Plesk because it takes less resources but haven’t yet.

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  3. Mark H | 12/01/07

    It’s not shared hosting, least not as you might know it ;-)

    You create your own environment on their Grid into which you can install whatever you want. It’s more like an elastic VPS I guess. It’s worth studying their website to understand it. Have you seen Amazon’s ECC? It’s a bit like that.

    They also do a more traditional VPS.

    The control panel is very nice.

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