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Do I need VPS to get CodeIgniter and PHP 5.3

I am currently hosting my site on my computer on WAMP, however I am looking to take it live. The problem is that it uses both CodeIgniter and PHP 5.3. It will not however, draw very much in the way of traffic to start. Is there some way I can get greater control of my server (so that I can use 5.3 and CI) without having to pay the expens...

Using Coda to access server SSH/sFTP

Hi, I have a VPS server and I lock down to only expose 3 ports 80, 443 and 22222 for ssh. So far I can connect to the server using Terminal (Mac) and Panic Transmit, but when I try to connect using Panic Coda the connection fail. What I am doing wrong? I see Coda support sFTP and I can connect on Coda to the SSH, but not to the sFTP. ...

Which Apache2 modules can I safely disable?

These are my enabled mods: alias auth_basic authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_user autoindex deflate dir env mime negotiation php5 reqtimeout rewrite setenvif status I'm attempting to reduce Apache's memory footprint as much as possible. Can anyone guide me in the right direction as to which of these I absolutely need and...

Is EC2 really not competitive against a VPS?

I started out with Amazon EC2 as a monthly host for my project. I am running a 'small' Windows 2k8 instance with SQL server. This is the HW that I am getting: 1.7 GB memory 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 Compute Unit) [2.7 GHz CPU] 160 GB instance storage 32-bit platform I/O Performance: Moderate Now I tend to see peop...

How can I run vmware server (or equivalent free vmmachine server) on a cluster of several machines?

I would like to create a cluster of computers in order to run a virtual machine server (preferably vmware) as if the cluster were 1 big machine. What software and OS do I need for this and how do I need to configure it? Is there a way to balance the load of any applications over a cluster or do applications need to be built in a certain...

Connecting/Adding a private network on windows server 2008

Hey all, I have a duel server configuration on a host provider using VPS. I was told by my Host provider that in order to use free bandwidth between my two servers (they are in the same location) I need to add a alias "subnet" to a specific ip (A private network, VPN). How do I add an aliased ip in widnwos? in Linux the relevant comma...

Is there a system that I can use to update my projects on my VPS?

Hey guys, So I recently got a VPS, just so I can start gaining experience. But I'm looking for a service/program where I can code on my PC, then when I'm done, I run a script or do a command or something to have it updated to my VPS. I thought I was looking for Git, but apparently git does not do what I'm looking for. Any suggestions? ...

Web Hosting Recommendations

I am developing a website and I currently host with Media Temple. I have a Virtual Dedicated server , and I often find that thing load really slow. I'm looking for recommendations on hosting specific to my needs (I already read the post on recommended hosts). I like the support and admin interface that Media TEmple has, I'm just not sati...

Why would RAM allocation to buffers increase dramatically

I am curious Why the allocation to buffers for RAM, shown in Munin would increase dramatically. After a reboot the amount allocated to buffers shot up to 350Mb (of 1 Gb). This is for a VPS on Linode, running Ubuntu, with several Wordpress blogs. It had been going along at about 40Mb for buffers. There has been lots of unused RAM, so ...