FTP - Does Memory Matter
Jul 26, 2009include FTP Backup space for my clients, However I was thinking would memory be an issue for a few connections per day and fair usage.
I was just thinking 1-2GB memory should that be okay?
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Does Location Always Matter
Jun 1, 2008I have seen a number of threads that specify location (mostly US) as a critereon for VPS selection. I am based in India and looks like there are vew VPS providers here and most of the VPS providers are located in the US (some in the UK as well).
View 5 Replies View RelatedDoes Uptime Guarantee Really Matter
Jan 13, 2009Just looking for opinions on uptime guarantees. Does anyone actually look at those guarantees anymore? Or is it just assumed that every host now a days is up 99.9% of the time.
The reason I ask is that it appears that every host has one, but I haven't really ever experienced one myself.
As A Customer, How Much Does Design Matter
Jan 16, 2009If you're browsing for a new host, do you care about the design of the site you're looking at? Would you be put off a host if their site was poorly designed and ugly?
View 14 Replies View RelatedDoes Location Of Datacenter Matter
May 18, 2009We currently have two vps's one in chicago and one in dallas. We have our primary in chicago because we figured fewer hops=faster load times for website. is this really true?
right now we get pings around 35-60ms to chicago and 60-170ms to dallas. does this major difference really amount to anything?
Does Server Location Matter For VPS
Aug 4, 2007I intend to subscribe to a VPS and I'm trying to decide whether to go with a company in the US or in my home country, Singapore (which is on the other side of the globe).
Price wise, US web hosting companies beat their Singapore counterparts hands down. The prices in Singapore are easily 2.5 times that of the US (for equivalent specs).
But in terms of server round trip times, Singapore is much faster for local users. (99% of my users will be based in Singapore.) A ping to a US server takes an average of 380ms, compared to 13ms for a ping to a Singapore server (from Singapore).
In terms of reliability, both are the same.
MY QUESTIONS:
1. Is the server round trip time really the main bottleneck (from the time the user clicks a button to the time she gets a response)? Or should I not be worried about this?
2. What is the recommended hosting option (US or Singapore), taking into consideration just two factors: price and speed?
Does Support Matter If There Was 100% Uptime And Scalability?
Dec 1, 2008Does support matter if there was 100% uptime and scalability?
Our team has been developing scalable sites since 2004. We started renting servers from Layeredtech then, since they had good reviews and they were still good until we migrated away from dedicated server land. Although we have systems administration backgrounds, it still took time away from developing software in order to administer the servers (look over logs, backups/restores, performance graphs, hardware failure, etc). Having said that, one thing I've noticed is that customers are usually happy if servers are always running and running fast.
To get rid of the systems administration part we tried Mosso (they had just released, great support but a lot of problems), we tried mediatemple's grid (also had a lot of problems), couldnt try EC2 because of persistent storage, and lastly we are currently using thegridlayer (it lags, the initial request takes about a second to display a page with no load on the server).
The next things to try were VPS then managed dedicated servers. We decided to try VPSes so we can isolate sites from each other and add VPSes as needed for specific sites. So I got a zone.net and they were running fine until they had a problem mentioned here. People recommended them because they had fast servers, now is the opposite because of this one downtime.
So finally, my questions:
1) how much do you think support is needed if your hosts provides fast servers and 100% uptime?
2) What measures do you take (if any) to verify the host's procedures such as backups, company size, profitability, etc?
3) How do you verify that a host is not overselling before buying a hosting package (assuming shared or VPS)?
Does It Matter If The Company Owns Its Equipment
Feb 29, 2008employees, owners, customers and everyone feel free to join in and tell us what you think.
Do you feel that your data is safe if the company manages their own servers? By manage I mean they fully own and operate their own hardware.
Or does it not matter as long as the company is a long time and known provider? Do you ask yourself this question when you look for a host?
Sendmail Sends From Localhost.localdomain No Matter What I Try
Dec 18, 2007I have these lines in sendmail.mc and I've compiled the sendmail.cf with them:
LOCAL_DOMAIN(`freesexdoor.com')dnl
MASQUERADE_AS(`freesexdoor.com')dnl
FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl
MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(localhost)dnl
MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(localhost.localdomain)dnl
I have the users daemon, freesexd and root in the trusted_users file. I have restarted sendmail (using service sendmail restart). I have the domains: server.freesexdoor.com, freesexdoor.com and mail.freesexdoor.com in the sendmail's local_hosts file.
In Apache 2's httpd.conf, I have this: php_admin_value sendmail_path '/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -f freesexd [at} freesexdoor.com'
Yet when I sent an e-mail with php to advertising [at} freesexdoor.com, I got these headers in the e-mail, which don't look good to a spam filter:
Received: from localhost.localdomain (IS-3293 [127.0.0.1])
by localhost.localdomain (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id
Received: (from daemon@localhost)
by localhost.localdomain (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id
Message-Id: <200712180935.lBI9ZrRs005480@localhost.localdomain>
Additionally hotmail rejects my e-mails and it is obvious why. (My OpenSPF record is fine btw and on my former server I was able to send e-mails with it fine.)
Naturally I want something like "freesexdoor.com" to replace "localhost.localdomain" in those header lines. So how can I get this working?
The OS is CentOS 5 by the way.
Cpanel VPS - Plenty Of Free Memory, But 'committed' Memory Exceeds VPS RAM
Jun 12, 2009I have a VPS. And have had an issue both when it was 1Gig and now I recently downgraded it to 768m, because I am moving some sites to a dedicated.
However, the part I am having trouble grasping is that when I look at graphs from Munin, it will typically always show 200-400MB free memory (and free -m and top agrees with munin), but Munin shows 'committed' memory that is above the total Ram on the VPS and once the 'committed' ram exceeds the VPS limit, processes start failing.
So, why is 'committed' memory exceeding the RAM on my VPS, when Munin, free -m and top all show there is free memory available?
Code:
root@server [~]# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 768 449 318 0 0 0
-/+ buffers/cache: 449 318
Swap: 0 0 0
Here's a graph that munin produces that shows the 'committed' memory exceeding the total memory.
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Memory Usage :: Put More Content Into Memory?
Jul 16, 2009I just got a new server Dual E5520 with 6GB RAM, SAS 15k rpm raid10. It's running well. However, the memory usage is just around 2.5GB, even when I have more traffic. Here is the kernel info
Quote:
# uname -a
Linux server2.[url]2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 #1 SMP Thu May 7 10:35:59 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Any idea that we can put more content into memory?
I'm Missing 7 GB Of Ram: Installed Physical Memory 8 GB / Total Physical Memory 1 GB
Apr 4, 2009I just ordered a server from serverbeach that should have come with 2 GB but I see that this one comes with 8 GB
Unfortunately, I seem to be missing 7 GB of ram.
Installed Physical Memory: 8 GB
Total Physical Memory: 1 GB
Windows 2008 Server Web 32-bit
Now, being a 32-bit system, I should see 3-4 GB of ram right?
Any idea why only 1 GB is available for the OS?
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512MB Memory VPS... Out Of Memory Already
Oct 1, 2009I have a 512mb DV server with Mediatemple, which I am running 24 (ish) domains off (most of them static websites) and a teamspeak server. I would say MAX theres 10 users online at a time)
Now, I know its running out of memory because i get frequent QoS Alerts in plesk (kmemsize is apparently the memory size):
Oct 01, 2009 11:52:57 AMBlack zonekmemsize
I have attached my results (when I did top).
My questions are:
1. Should I be expecting to be out of memory running what I am?
2. Is there a way to see the problem domains (memory wise)?
3. Are there any ways I can reduce the memory? (I have followed this already:
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4. Where is the memory usage coming from (I am finding it very hard to understand TOP)
VPS Memory
Jun 19, 2007I am hoping someone with experience of these things can comment on memory usage on my VPS partition. The master server on which my partition sits seems to be running at full memory usage and I'm getting lots of fork and mutex errors in apache causing apache to crash several times a day.
I'm running Invision Power Board on there with an average of 100 users in the last 15 mins during most of the day.
oomguarpages and privmpages are reported in 4KB blocks.
More CPU Or RAM Memory?
Jun 18, 2009Hello everyone.i run LAMP on a dedicated server at theplanet.I have a small vbulletin forum.
I m planning to move to a new server.Just a quick question.for my new hardware,do i give more emphasis to ram or cpu...i will be getting 2 gb at the minimum.
SO,is LAMP dependant more on cpu resources or ram?
Xen Using More Memory
Jun 25, 2009I previuosly have a forum hosted on a VPS with a 512 MB RAM (OpenVZ) and at that time it was only using 300MB of ram during peak time but the server was always down due to harware failures so I move to a new host this time Using Xen with a 768 RAM now it is using all the RAM available which is double the ram that it uses before. Is it really normal for a XEN vps to consume more memory than on a VPS using OpenVZ?
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May 4, 2008today I recieved an email from my server saying:
Drive Space Critical on server
Drive Critical: /dev/simfs (/) is 91% full
When i check the whm I see
cpsrvdfailed
exim (exim-4.68-1_cpanel_maildir)up
ftpdup
httpd (2.2.8 (Unix))up
imapup
mysql (4.1.22-standard)up
named (9.3.3rc2)up
popup
Server Load0.11 (2 cpus)
Memory Used38 %
Swap Used0.00 %
Disk /dev/simfs (/) 91 %
what i dont understand is where did it go. I dont really have much traffic and nothing was uploaded or downloaded. I dont have any automatic backups enabled. How do I get it back to the normal 40%
I do notice i have alot of cpu usage
Top Process%CPU 77.4gzip
Top Process%CPU 76.2gzip
Top Process%CPU 75.9gzip
Which is also confussing to me because I am the only user. I didnt do any backups didnt have any major traffic. And my disk space "memory used" didnt change.
VPS And Min Memory
May 5, 2008How much memory would I need to run a couple of websites, with gallery,postgresql,wordpress,dotproject,spamassassin on top of usual apache, mysql, php etc?
Most of the cheap VPS starts from 196MB or 256MB. 512MB upgrades are expensive :p
How Much Memory Is Best
Aug 8, 2008How much extra memory do I need on a VPs to be safe ?
Do I need something like 20% more of what I actually use just to be safe?
How Can I Use More Memory
Mar 12, 2008I am trying to optimize my VPS setup and can't seem to get it to use all of the memory that I have. I have problems even getting it to use half of it. What kind of changes can I make so that it uses more memory while reducing load? My recent MySQL and Apache conf optimizations I have read about here and other sites have sent my loads above 1, but the memory usage is staying the same.
View 4 Replies View RelatedXen Memory Used
Nov 27, 2008I've a question with XEN VPS. I rented vps with sweden provider and its 20 GB HD and 256MB memory. The setup isnt bad, done within 1 day. I check inside the vps and its XEN VPS.
I tried "top" command and wow, I am supprised !! here what I saw
Mem: 262320k total, 208708k used, 53612k free, 54680k buffers
isnt it funny ? 50MB++ left(not yet run anything, no panel running too). is it normal ?
I have other vps running inside virtuozzo, and got 192 MB inside. even its running so many process inside(about 15) that takes about 5-10MB each, its still have more left than XEN.
Mem: 196608k total, 82972k used, 113636k free, 0k buffers
100MB++ left,
Xen Using Too Much Memory
Jun 4, 2008I noticed that, VPS with Xen technology, are using up far more memory than others?
Lets say, I usually use about 300mb of ram in a VPS with openvz, but VPS with xen, with the same usage, is using about 820mb of ram.
Even without running anything...after a fresh install of centos 5, with only few OS processes, its using around 170mb of ram already.
Is this so with Xen? The expected ram usage with Xen? Or am I missing something?
VPS Memory
Sep 20, 2007I have this 512MB memory VPS plan from fdcservers.net and it kept running out of memory.
The memory went up and down like roller coaster every seconds although I switched off httpd. Anyone can tell me what RAM do they assign to my VPS? Here's the beancounter results: [Please find the result in the attachment] Dont know why webhostingtalk mess up the spaces between each texts.
Memory Used On VPS
Apr 20, 2007We are running into yellow status often at our new VPS. We have been with the web host for almost 1 year and recently got moved to a new VPS. WHM often show a yellow status for Memory Used (80% or so). As per the web host, WHM shows RAM for the entire server and not just our VPS. So how can we determine how much RAM we are using so? And to determine if we are using more RAM than we should or if others on the server are the culprit?
never got this yellow status on the old VPS.
VPS Memory
Oct 5, 2007if someone here could offer their advice/expertise in this problem. I have a 256MB CPanel VPS. When Apache is restarted, memory is around 180MB which is perfect
However, before long, memory usage is at 240MB. Looking at top processes, this is the top 5 i get...
PID USER PR NI VERT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
29833 nobody 15 0 27616 14m 3776 S 1 1.4 0:30.32 httpd
26432 nobody 15 0 29104 16m 3836 S 1 1.6 0:24.80 httpd
28398 nobody 15 0 26996 14m 3776 S 0 1.4 0:28.70 httpd
28645 nobody 15 0 31324 17m 3776 S 0 1.7 0:25.93 httpd
31981 nobody 15 0 32232 17m 3776 S 0 1.7 0:38.69 httpd
Anybody able to offer any advice? I see that all processes are httpd, is lighthttpd or lightspeed a solution?
The main site serves up php content (No mySQL) and a few images. It also has a LOT of image requests which are redirected by photobucket via .htaccess.
The secondary site on the server (not yet launched) is going to be an arcade site running gamescript. I have been hesitant to release this site untill these memory issues are sorted.
Memory Used
May 3, 2007My VPS Service Status showing
Memory Used 70.4 %
is that normal? how I can less memory used.
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Second I just got following email from system
"The following list of files have FAILED the md5sum comparision test. This means that the file has been changed in some way. This could be a result of an OS update or application upgrade. If the change is unexpected it should be investigated:
/usr/bin/sa-learn: FAILED
/usr/bin/sa-update: FAILED
/usr/bin/spamassassin: FAILED
/usr/bin/spamc: FAILED
/usr/bin/spamd: FAILED"
any issue with server?
VPS Memory
Jun 20, 2007I have got a VPS with slhost but seems like I am hitting my memory limit when I check in VZPP.
Is there anyway I can find out which websites are causing high loads etc and get the limit back to normal?
VPS Memory
Jul 4, 2007is there a way to quickly check and see how much guaranteed ram my VPS has?
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Nov 12, 2007I just want to know that when I run the command free -m (/usr/bin/free -m) what exactly this output means:
Code:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3546 3395 151 0 261 2730
-/+ buffers/cache: 403 3143
I know that the values are in megabytes, but what scares me is the amount of megabytes left. Considering that I have 4gigs of space, does this mean that I only have 151 megs of RAM space left? Or is a large portion of that 4 gigs put aside for some reason (perhaps the cache).
If so, then why is this? Is the memory still practically free?
90% Of Memory Used?
Apr 26, 2007So my cPanel / WHM VPS (512MB RAM, 1024 burstable) is apparently using over 90% of its memory (according to the "service status" panel in WHM), and has been using 80% or more every time I've happened to log in over the past 2 weeks.
There ought to be literally nothing going on on the server right now (no email sent, received or relayed, nobody visiting the sites, no uploads, no downloads, no nothing). CPU load is very reasonable (0.11, 0.04, 0.0), and none of the processes appearing when I run "top" are using any memory worth mentioning.
What's the most likely explanation, and how concerned should I be about this (considering I'm anticipating a lot of traffic next week)? Would you recommend any specific further steps to investigate?
VPS Memory
Nov 4, 2007I have 512mb of memory on my new VPS.
I got it last night and i've been setting it up since. For some reason the memory usage is at 70 percent now.... how could this be? What happens when I open my site to the public and I get hammered with users? This was the whole point of getting a VPS!