[olug] Apache alternatives

[Will Langford]

linode.com is very good and moderately priced.  i have never heard a single
negative review about them but have heard about a dozen positives (from
people i know).

yourdomainhere.com is cheap and mentions actual cpu alotments you'll get.
 i've recently picked up a $5/month vps from them but haven't put it through
it's paces yet.

i've had a webkeepers.com vps for $7/month for about the last 2 years.  i
don't expect much of the vps (just some shoutcast relaying, secondary dns,
and some audio stream transcoding for shoutcast formats)... but it's been
mostly stable all along.

there is ALOT in the world of cheap VPS hosting for < $10 a month as well.

For servers, serverpronto.com can be a pain in the ass to cancel an account,
but for $40 you get an acceptable box with 5TB of bandwidth (puts it at more
than 10mbit unlimited) and free hardware failure replacement.

there are a lot of options out there for a wide range of budgets.

don't assume it'll cost you an arm and a leg.

oh, and just for vanilla website hosting, bluehost is supposed to be real
good.

lowendbox.com lists lots of vps deals and also has some suggestions on
configuring services for low memory situations (such as mysql etc).

for bigger boxes, esecuredata.com is a good place for an $80/month server
with unmetered 100mbit.  think that's for a moderately powered p4 system.
they're in vancouver.

take2hosting.com is on the more expensive side but you get a real beefy box
(quad core / 4-8gb ram / raid etc) with 100mbit downstream and starts out at
10mbit up.  they're also real friendly and offer ssh<>serial console
gateway.  they're in cali.

dmehosting.com is growing and still relatively young... but they've balooned
alot over the last year.  they were also nice people.  it's been some time
so i can't really comment if their reliability these days is any good but
i'd imagine so.

as far as other httpd's -- i've not really looked into them very much.

-unfy


On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Dave Rowe <dave at roweware.com> wrote:

> Linode is pretty cheap at $20/month, based on my experience at least.
>
> Not an image, but they have StackScripts to get things staged up:
> http://www.linode.com/stackscripts/
>
> -Dave
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:33 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I'm growing tired of poor performance on cheap shared web-hosts, even
> though
> > most of the sites I run don't get much traffic. I'm considering moving to
> a
> > VPS solution where I'd have full control of a box. But I'd either have to
> > fork over big bucks, or live with very little memory.
> >
> > I'm reading up on alternatives to Apache that use less memory and have
> > better performance.
> >
> > http://olex.openlogic.com/wazi/2011/apache-alternatives-for-serving-php/
> >
> > Has anyone on this list experimented with lighttpd, nginx or Cherokee?
> >
> > Are there existing Suse Studio images, or VMs I can throw down to have a
> > working stack with one of these alternative web servers and PHP designed
> for
> > low-memory VPS solutions?
> >
> > -- T. J. Brumfield
> > "I'm questioning my education
> > Rewind and what does it show?
> > Could be, the truth it becomes you
> > I'm a seed, wondering why it grows"
> > -- Pearl Jam, Education
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