I am new to web development and everything involved with it. Im finishing my website in django and i will soon have to find a hosting and deploy it. I heard there are vps or shared hosting types. So here are the questions: 1. How many visits/clicks per day make it worth choosing vps? shared? 2. How hard is it to tune and maintain a vps o...
What are tools you would recommend for analyzing VPS performance. Specifically I run several Wordpress blogs on a VPS and would like to find some tools to help me find issues worth looking into (so I can address them). I use New Relic for getting some data on where to focus some attention on our rails applications and find it very usef...
At what point should I consider upgrading my shared ASP.NET hosting package to VPS/Dedicated Hosting? I'm currently getting a few hundred visits per day on my website, but with a few major changes, i'm expecting a large spike in traffic. Also, should I consider Microsoft Azure so i don't have to deal with all the administrative mess?? ...
This is the first time I've to deploy an application on a VPS host somewhere around the globe. There are plenty of companies offering VPS services linode,slicehost... VPN looks to me like the most configurable/secure way of deploying my app (as I'm not a big Company with its own servers/upload bandwidth) My question is: Can we trust VPS...
A while back I was using Virtual Private Server (VPS) that had very limited RAM. I used it to host Jetty. It was so slow that it became completely unusable. I believe the main problem was memory-related. I switched the project over to PHP and the problems disappeared. Needless to say, I'm very hesitant to try Java again in a VPS. E...
I have been having weird FTP issues on certain VPS servers. I am not the one who set this up but could request a change if I find out the issue is on the server. Not sure if it is my FTP Program (CuteFTP) or the server it is on. Not to familiar with servers and settings but this seems to be what is happening (I am using the protocol type...
Hi, I've just had a new VPS set up and have installed Passenger with Ruby Enterprise Edition. However, I can't get rake to work. /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2010.01/bin/gem list * LOCAL GEMS * actionmailer (2.3.5, 2.2.3) actionpack (2.3.5, 2.2.3) activerecord (2.3.5, 2.2.3) activeresource (2.3.5, 2.2.3) activesupport (2.3.5, 2.2.3) fa...
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I am learning about the Apache Cassandra database [sic]. Does anyone have any good/bad experiences with deploying Cassandra to less than dedicated hardware like the offerings of Linode or Slicehost? I think Cassandra would be a great way to scale a web service easily to meet read/write/request load... just add another Linode running...
I have VPS with 1GB of RAM. One ruby-app that runs on thin server takes about 60+ MB of RAM, no matter if application is used right now or not. Is there any way to control this? Because right now Im runnin' out of memory. Any suggestions are accepted. Thanks in advance. ...
I'm renting a slice (i.e., a VPS) from Slicehost. I've a spent a day or two filling up /usr with my favorite packages, /etc with configs and init scripts, and so on. Now I want to: save this whole setup somewhere (e.g., to load onto another machine). see what changes I've made to which files revert changes, tag revisions, and all tha...
Well, I know absolutely nothing about the subject, so I really need help. I currently have a website running on google app-engine (Java) and I can't get it to what I want because of app engine's limitations (no full text search mainly). The traffic is low, never reached 15% of the free quota (around 1500 daily pageviews). I also have...
Hi, I need some advice from experts :) I will develop a website using PHP and I will use also MySQL. I bought some server space from a Virtual private server including all the service needed. How should I develop the site? Shall I develop it on my machine at home (using for example Wamp), and when ready transfer all the files to the ser...
I have moved this question to serverfault where it might be more appropriate. See http://serverfault.com/questions/128329/how-do-you-host-multiple-public-facing-websites-on-a-vps We host about 30 websites using typical shared hosting plans using ASP.NET and SQL 2000/2005/2008. I am now wondering about hosting all of these websites usin...
Hi, I bought a VPS a few days back and had a domain name registered. It gave me 2 nameservers. I only have shell access (no Cpanel/WHM) and it's running CentOS 5. I can visit my site with http://IP/ but not with http://domain.com. What changes do I need to make so that I can visit my site with http://domain.com. I'm really new at this a...
I have a vps that I am planning to host multiple websites on. I've registered the website, and I want to forward it to my vps. But my vps' virtual host is looking for web address instead of ip address (since I would hosting multiple websites on a single IP address using virtual host). But on the website that I registered the domain, I r...
Hi everyone, Does anyone out there use SQL Express 2008 R2 in a production environment? I am looking at hosting a Windows VPS as a server for a client software product I have developed. Clients connect to the server, send their data to a service running on the server, and the service updates the database. I'm trying to keep running c...
I have two similar sites: - two of them have almost exactly the same codes, and running on the same server - both sites are the same, they just use different language. - database of the slower site is populated (maybe only the user table) the other tables for site content is the same - the faster uses root to access database one of the ...
I follow the instruction on http://lucene.apache.org/solr/tutorial.html and I can setup Solr on my PC. Now when I come to my VPS I cannot overcome the step: $ java -jar start.jar Afer running that command, search service is available at http: //x.x.x.x:8983/solr/select . But, Whenever I close the SSH client, the service on http: //x.x...
What are cost effective VPS solutions for development, build, and deployment needs especially when working in a very iterative environment. I'm not thinking about individual projects but more generally that can be applied to a development shop with agile needs ...