[Cialug] looking for new hosting

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:30 PM, jrnosee <jrnosee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rapidxen looks pretty appealing too, but for the $7.49 hosting @ 5GB disk
> space, is that for the OS & site?!  I'd have to look @ my VM config for my
> dev sites, but I'm pretty sure I give more HD space than that.  What would
> you configure for an OS that would still give you enough space to host a
> site?
>
>
Yeah, with Xen (assuming the xen in rapidxen means they use xen) the 128MB
of RAM would be the OS plus applications. That's enough to run a shell
account, an IRC bot, a light mail or DNS server, a mostly static (minimal
php) website or two. Fortunately they do allow swap so you could have some
fun with that. I'd probably limit Apache to a max children of 10 or so.

You can get a micro EC2 instance with 600MB of RAM for just slightly more
than that. A reserved instance is $54 one-year fee + $0.007/hour = $115.32
/year or $9.61/mo + $1/mo for a 10GB disk. If you're a new customer it's
free for one year.

Tying this back into the original question, the decision between choosing a
VPS or a shared hosting provider really is, do you want to manage a server
or not?

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