Personal Website

AH-Dominic

Hi,

I currently have my personal website running on Apache w/ MySQL/PHP etc. Would you recommend keeping it as that set up, with no control panel or is there another way you'd do it?

It currently is hosted on a VPS w/ 512MB RAM (Xen)

Thanks

netomx

huh? what do you want?

Amfy

@netomx said: huh? what do you want?

seems like he's asking if he should install a control panel on his vps to manage a personal website?

hm, but yes... not really sure if thats right :P

netomx

@Amfy

Well I dont think you need it, but it seems you have a lot of RAM for just a page.

Amfy

@netomx said: Well I dont think you need it, but it seems you have a lot of RAM for just a page.

I'm not @dominicl :P

But yes, you're right, he has a lot of ram for just a single page. Hmm, but if he's using apache with the php5-module he needs that amount of ram if he gets some visitors

MrAndroid

If your running one website, don't use a control panel.

joepie91

You don't need a panel for that, but I'd recommend having a look at lighttpd instead of Apache.

Liam

512mb is an overkill. My personal site uses 50~ mb ram most of the time.

AH-Dominic

Sorry if I was not clear - I was basically asking if Apache w/ no control panel was good for my website. I.e. would you recommend anything else other than Apache such as nginx/lighttpd etc etc.

Corey

or nginx

raindog308

@Daniel said: If your running one website, don't use a control panel.

That's not always true. Someone who knows little about systems administration might find using a panel a lot easier to use than a shell.

AH-Dominic

@Corey said: or nginx

Yea, was thinking about that. Would you recommend it over apache?

gsrdgrdghd

@dominicl said: Yea, was thinking about that. Would you recommend it over apache?

Is your site running fine with Apache? If yes, why change it?

AH-Dominic

@gsrdgrdghd said: Is your site running fine with Apache? If yes, why change it?

Yes, it is, I was just wondering other peoples views.

Phil

lighttpd / nginx would improve memory usage and probably performance. But if you are not used to these solutions, you may need to learn alternatives to Apache specific syntax/features (access control through .htaccess, rewrite rules...).

About the control panel, I would not install one if you are comfortable enough with the command line and only have 1 site to manage. Usually raises memory usage and may open additional security holes.

antiven

What are the advantages of using Apache vs Lighttpd? I can find plenty online about Lighttpd being better than Apache.

raindog308

@antiven said: What are the advantages of using Apache vs Lighttpd?

Apache is a swiss army knife. Lots of features.

Nginx and lighttpd are more specialized. Not nearly as many features but if you don't need those features, nginx/lighttpd are often faster.

Corey

I think nginx is a lot easier to administrate as well.

BluBoy

OP many of us are running much bigger sites (and multiple!) on a single 128MB RAM VPS.

Most people here would say 512MB and cPanel is wasteful. If you are willing to do your own research, learn about administering a linux server (you'll need to know how to install, upgrade, navigate and secure your box from the command line). Then have a look at nginx (plenty of guides online) and downgrading to a smaller VPS.

... If you are lazy and CBF RTFM then continue doing what you're doing.

Goodluck!

cosmicgate

I changed from Nginx to Apache just because of the rewrite rules. Simple rewrite rules are easy to convert but there was this one time i had to convert close to 3 pages of rewrite rules for a custom social website, so no thanks. I have been very happy with Apache.

BluBoy

@cosmicgate ... This sounds like all those organisations who have written broken code that only works in IE6 and refuse to fix the code (and thus never upgrade from IE6).

jcaleb

@dominicl don't change if you dont need to. spend your extra time somewhere else.