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What are you running on your LEB web server?
How about listing the details of your LEB Web Server?
Most likely it will help many others (me for sure) and also to know what limits an LEB web server can be pushed to.
VPS details
OS / Webserver / Database / Platform
Number of sites hosted (preferably by platform)
Typical traffic (overall pageviews/day)
Any other interesting details...
I will post mine after a couple of replies 
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Why not start it off by writing your own?
Fine, I guess I'll start with one of mine.
VPS details: 512mb plan with AsuraHosting
OS / Webserver / Database / Platform: Debian 6 32-bit/Apache2/MySQL/PHP
Number of sites hosted (preferably by platform): 1
Typical traffic (overall pageviews/day): Very few
this is my status-uptime server that keeps an eye on every VPS I have. It generates logs and pings those servers every 30 seconds or so. The only person who views the pages it generates is myself so there's no real load on it (except for when it executes the pings).
BuyVM 512 OVZ:
SL6, nginx, Percona.
Just two WordPress-based websites for a friend, I doubt they get many hits at all.
PieServ 1GB OVZ/vSwap:
Cent6, nginx, MariaDB.
One WordPress testing install, used for tweaking theme/plugins without blowing up the actual main site.
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit
Apache2 + PHP-FPM
MySQL with skip-innodb
1 WordPress site (with WP-Super-Cache and 10 other plugins), planning to add more WP sites to make best use of it
Currently 150-200 pageviews/day, hoping to touch 1k pageviews/day in ~2 months
I am very satisfied with the current performance of the WP site. Blitz.io tests show that it can easily handle more pageviews.
Used tuxlite.com scripts to install the webserver stack and configure. Probably need to upgrade to 512MB OVZ (or fine-tune LAMP stack?) as constantly consuming ~300MB RAM (my host doesn't care about that though!).
Funny that you use tuxlite, I recommend them for like a year to everyone I know haha.
The tuxlite script uses php-fpm, which basically means there are constantly some php processes running (with the memory limit set) so if you have 2 of 128 mb running you could (in theory) use 256mb memory without any traffic. You can tweak the min_servers, max_servers etc in order to change this, or reduce memory for the processes.
Also, Matt, the author of tuxlite, is a great and helpful guy if you might have any questions. I have his contact details and talk to him every once in a while.
128MB BuyVM
Debian 6
Nginx + PHP-FPM + MySQL (with some basic optimazations)
1 Wordpress Site with Super-Cache
Benchmark: http://i.imgur.com/5GQkM.png
I guess i could improve the setup since PHP max servers is set to 2 and the VM was sitting around 90mb RAM during the test.
New tactic to catch law breakers?
huh ? Whom are you asking that ?
I use lebs to give out bw to anti-censorship projects. If they have good bw and bad io/low memory, i put Tor, if they have low bw but good io and some reasonable storage, I put freenet.
I also host some friends and a forum for a game.
I prefer debian squeeze, sometimes centos 5 when i give the box to other ppl to manage with kloxo.
Since trafic is rather low, I dont see the need to optimize with nginx, but I sometimes use lighttpd or even boa for static pages on tor exit nodes in case someone is curious to see info about that IP that contacted them.
For db mysql or postgres.
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OS / Webserver / Database / Platform: Debian 32bit / nginx / MySQL / self-coded
Number of sites hosted: Maybe 5?
Typical traffic (overall pageviews/day):: No idea, pretty low (used to run a high traffic forum with 100 concurrent users once though)
Any other interesting details: My LEB runs my personal site (www.excloo.com), my homepage and my RSS Reader (TT-RSS FTW!)
If you look on my status page (in my sig) you can see the current utilisation of my primary webserver (user) ;P
@maxexcloo self coded? :P
2 cpanel servers + 2 cpanel dns-only vps for main web server (Cent OS 6.2 64bit)
run a mix of debian, ubuntu, windows 2003 and cent os
1 directadmin vps (Cent OS 5.8 32 bit)
the rest arent web servers
no, it is checkmyservers.com from @NickM hosted solution on a subdomain
I'm going to sign up for Blitz.io; does anyone want referral credit?
I have come across tuxlite scripts accidentally on WHT and they gave me confidence to sign up for unmanaged vps as I had no prior experience in setting up web server. I totally agree that Matt is quite helpful.
That is great performance from a 128MB vps. Is that a KVM or OVZ? Guess Debian helped you to stay low on memory too. Do you think adding another WP site can double the RAM requirement?
By running hostinabox? What minimum RAM is required for it?
Are you offering shared hosting or so with that setup or using for your own sites?
Its OVZ. I don't think adding another WP site would double the RAM requirement as long as it doesn't double that amount of visitors.
Debian 6
Nginx + PHP-FPM (+ MySQL; isn't always running though)
1 Development site used for testing web-apps/scripts before sticking them on production servers
Very little traffic as a lot of the site is IP restricted
If you haven't already signed up, feel free to use mine - http://blitz.io/bc21j2r22wXjt9D6SJ60FmR
I just signed up too, thanks to @vanarp for mentioning it.
@MrDOS if you don't mind, http://blitz.io/bc21j2r22wXjt9D6SJ6RPju
You are welcome!
Waiting to hear more web server success stories...
SL6, nginx, Percona.
Just two WordPress-based websites for a friend, I doubt they get many hits at all.
How much memory this setup consumes? I am curious if you found any specific advantages with Percona on OVZ?
InceptionHosting 768MB Xen
Debian, lighttpd, php5-fpm and MySQL
About 3 sites hosted on it.
Using about 130mb of ram on the entire VPS
VPS: Prometeus $18/yr 256mb KVM
Server software: CentOS 6 with nginx+php-fpm+mysql
Web apps: 1 MyBB forum (~57k posts, ~4k threads, ~3k members)
Typical traffic: 4-6k pageviews a day
Ad income: ~$125-$150/month
memory usage: ~160mb excluding buffers/caches
I've always suspected that 99%+ of web sites running on LEBs would run just fine on shared hosting.
I think most people who run web sites on LEBs do so for the fun geekery of it, not because it's the best possible technical solution.
@raindog308 - not entirely true. They have full root access and can control every aspect of their environment, and can install some custom things that other shared hosting providers would not allow.
@Corey that was my main reason indeed
True. I can run my website. a Teamspeak server and an IRC bouncer for 15$/year. I guess most shared hosting would cost much more
Using about 130mb of ram on the entire VPS
Can you share the traffic numbers the vps is able to handle with so less memory? I am curious about your setup/optimization.
Ad income: ~$125-$150/month
Awesome!! I wish I will reach there someday
True mostly for static sites. With dynamic sites and special requirements for the sites it makes sense to have own budget server. Note that there are premium shared hosting providers that provide excellent quality and service for the premium they charge. Until a while ago I was running my WordPress site on such premium hosting that was performing so great that it did not require any WP caching plugin. Primarily the cost and the geek within influenced to migrate to vps
Curious to know the traffic details.
@vanarp One of my clients earns 2500euro/month with adsense hehe. Unbelievable but true.
The Teamspeak has around 1GB/day, znc had 40mb total in the 3 weeks its running and for the wordpress i don't really know... But i guess it could handle 50-100 concurrent users without problems.
On my site it is very very minimal traffic like a few people every once in a while. A VPS like that may be able to handle a good amount of people assuming your webserver is setup good enough
I've few vps, 2 as DNS server, 1 Download server + 1 Upload server (private website), 1 steraming.
another VPS :
OS / Webserver / Database / Platform : Debian/Apache2/MySQL/64 Bit
Number of sites hosted (preferably by platform) : 2 WP
Typical traffic (overall pageviews/day) : I don't know about pageview (too lazy to check ) Visitor about 2000-3000/day for both of website.
~300MB at the moment, though that's with php-fpm ondemand pools.
Percona seems to use the same amount of memory (roughly) as MySQL proper. I just felt like trying something different.