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What OS do you use on low spec vps

MerlincoolMerlincool Member
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What OS system do you guys prefer on low spec vps, like vps of 30gb space or so.

How do you guys maximize space on low spec vps??

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  • JabJabJabJab Member

    low spec, 30 GB.

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  • totally_not_bannedtotally_not_banned Member
    edited January 16

    30gb is a lot. You might be able to save a little more by going for some even more exotic choice but i'd simply go for a minimal install of Devuan. If your basic OS install takes up more than 1 or maybe 2gb of space you are obviously doing it very wrong.

    Hint: At the extremes even Debian can be rather easily trimmed down to to about ~150-200mb.

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  • kaz050457kaz050457 Member

    Ubuntu + rclone mount.

  • MerlincoolMerlincool Member

    @totally_not_banned said:

    Hint: At the extremes even Debian can be rather easily trimmed down to to about ~150-200mb.

    Thanks. How exactly this can be done? Any tutorial link

  • MerlincoolMerlincool Member

    @JabJab said:
    low spec, 30 GB.

    lol, sorry I just meant in same range of 10-20 gb.

  • lq9xlq9x Member
    edited January 16

    @Merlincool said:

    @JabJab said:
    low spec, 30 GB.

    lol, sorry I just meant in same range of 10-20 gb.

    low spec? are you kidding?

    debian 12 - microlxc 64MB package

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  • VoidVoid Member

    @lq9x said:

    @Merlincool said:

    @JabJab said:
    low spec, 30 GB.

    lol, sorry I just meant in same range of 10-20 gb.

    low spec? are you kidding?

    debian 12 - microlxc 64MB package

    Thanked by 2homelabber Merlincool
  • MerlincoolMerlincool Member

    @lq9x said:

    @Merlincool said:

    @JabJab said:
    low spec, 30 GB.

    lol, sorry I just meant in same range of 10-20 gb.

    low spec? are you kidding?

    debian 12 - microlxc 64MB package

    Thanks, but that will need permission from vps provider to install custom iso, isn't it?

  • webmaster24webmaster24 Member

    Debian + Nginx is my most usual system.

  • totally_not_bannedtotally_not_banned Member

    @Merlincool said:

    @totally_not_banned said:

    Hint: At the extremes even Debian can be rather easily trimmed down to to about ~150-200mb.

    Thanks. How exactly this can be done? Any tutorial link

    Minimal install + rm, rm, rm. Don't think there's any actual tutorials. You basically need to know which parts of the system do what or rather which really do nothing of value to you.

  • abiaolaogeabiaolaoge Member


    https://wiki.debian.org/ReduceDebian

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  • WhiteRoseGWhiteRoseG Member
    edited January 16

    Debian 100%, but you need to use ssh terminal no desktop envoirement. Most of my webservers (low-end vps) I deploy Debian + Virtualmin for management.

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  • bootboot Member

    Debian.

    To save some space, always delete:

    rm -rf /usr/share/doc/*
rm -rf /usr/share/man/*
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  • valkvalk Member
    edited January 16

    Alpine Linux.

    But I'd use Debian for my lowend vpses anyway

  • totally_not_bannedtotally_not_banned Member
    edited January 16

    @boot said:
    Debian.

    To save some space, always delete:

    rm -rf /usr/share/doc/*
rm -rf /usr/share/man/*

    Yes, that's a good and absolutely safe start. localepurge is another easy and safe option to safe space. Beyond that deleting unused kernel modules should also be rather easy without much much background. Going further it gets somewhat tricky to know what to delete though, i fear.

  • lewellynlewellyn Member

    You can get a minimal but usable openSUSE into a hundred megs or so ijs

  • totally_not_bannedtotally_not_banned Member

    @lewellyn said:
    You can get a minimal but usable openSUSE into a hundred megs or so ijs

    Then he'd be using Suse though.

  • lewellynlewellyn Member

    @totally_not_banned said:

    @lewellyn said:
    You can get a minimal but usable openSUSE into a hundred megs or so ijs

    Then he'd be using Suse though.

    At this point, that's better than the RedHat flavor of the month. Things staying consistent isn't always bad!

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  • shruubshruub Member
    edited January 16

    Hannah Montana Linux and very rarely if I have to fall back to it, holy debian which may also be cause I only somewhat know alpine and don't really know fedora etc

    Edit: why bold and not cursive
    Edit2: ah got it thxnbai

  • MerlincoolMerlincool Member
    edited January 16

    I have never done custom installation on my vps yet. Is it easy for some one who haven't done before? where do I start? I am worried I might end up screwing if I keep following any random Google article. Sorry this is very basic question, but I have no idea.

  • totally_not_bannedtotally_not_banned Member
    edited January 16

    @Merlincool said:
    I have never done custom installation on my vps yet. Is it easy for some one who haven't done before? where do I start? I am worried I might end up screwing if I keep following any random Google article. Sorry this is very basic question, but I have no idea.

    By custom installation you mean installing from an ISO, i guess? Or is it one of the more fancy options? As far as screwing up goes: Most Linux installers are fairly simple. You'll hardly have to do anything but press OK and if you really screw something up beyond repair starting over is always quick and painless. None of what has been suggested here is all that risky either. It's like you'll be surgically remove binaries, shared libraries or other system components.

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  • WhiteRoseGWhiteRoseG Member

    @Merlincool said:
    I have never done custom installation on my vps yet. Is it easy for some one who haven't done before? where do I start? I am worried I might end up screwing if I keep following any random Google article. Sorry this is very basic question, but I have no idea.

    Just try you can reinstall as many times as you like you cannot fuckup

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  • jamespeachjamespeach Member

    I have several successful Debian 12 instances running on a 5GB disk and 128 MB of RAM.

  • wii747wii747 Member

    Debian 12

  • emghemgh Member 
    debian@localhost:~$ df -H
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev             68G     0   68G   0% /dev
tmpfs            14G  1.3M   14G   1% /run
/dev/md3        942G  127G  768G  15% /
tmpfs            68G     0   68G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.3M     0  5.3M   0% /run/lock
/dev/md2        1.1G  117M  849M  13% /boot
/dev/nvme1n1p1  536M  6.2M  530M   2% /boot/efi
tmpfs            14G     0   14G   0% /run/user/1000

    I successfully managed to install it on just 1TB so surely it'll work with any modern hardware.

    Finally, I recommend everyone getting an iPhone when you're getting your next phone, as their much better compared to Androids.

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  • lewellynlewellyn Member

    @emgh said:
    debian@localhost:~$ df -H
    Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    udev 68G 0 68G 0% /dev
    tmpfs 14G 1.3M 14G 1% /run
    /dev/md3 942G 127G 768G 15% /
    tmpfs 68G 0 68G 0% /dev/shm
    tmpfs 5.3M 0 5.3M 0% /run/lock
    /dev/md2 1.1G 117M 849M 13% /boot
    /dev/nvme1n1p1 536M 6.2M 530M 2% /boot/efi
    tmpfs 14G 0 14G 0% /run/user/1000

    I successfully managed to install it on just 1TB so surely it'll work with any modern hardware.

    Finally, I recommend everyone getting an iPhone when you're getting your next phone, as their much better compared to Androids.

    127G used for /... What did you do, install Firefox? :D

    Also, which SSH client do you use on your iPhone? I've been trying to find a good one to have work push to my phone to use the work VPN profile. So far everything I've suggested has been too expensive for a one-off (Fortune 100 companies like site licenses, sigh), has strange security concerns I didn't look for, or doesn't work with forced VPN profiles.

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  • optimisticoptimistic Member
    edited January 16

    LfN by GNAA, perfect for lowend deployments.

  • lowenduser1lowenduser1 Member

    How do you guys maximize space on low spec vps??

    no OS.

  • emghemgh Member
    edited January 16

    @lewellyn none, sometimes I get angry texts about everything going down when I’m out, then, I have to hurry home

    Been thinking about always having a laptop with me

    Edit: Yeah, only 127G used, Firefox not quite done downloading yet

  • emghemgh Member

    @optimistic said:
    LfN by GNAA, perfect for lowend deployments.

    They really included:

    African "tribal beats" sound and desktop theme

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