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Personal Website
AH-Dominic
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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
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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
@Amfy
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
If your running one website, don't use a control panel.
You don't need a panel for that, but I'd recommend having a look at lighttpd instead of Apache.
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.
or nginx
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.
Yea, was thinking about that. Would you recommend it over apache?
Is your site running fine with Apache? If yes, why change it?
Yes, it is, I was just wondering other peoples views.
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.
What are the advantages of using Apache vs Lighttpd? I can find plenty online about Lighttpd being better than Apache.
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.
I think nginx is a lot easier to administrate as well.
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!
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.
@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).
@dominicl don't change if you dont need to. spend your extra time somewhere else.