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Debian or Ubuntu a good alternative to CentOS?
javidotpro
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Hi,
I´m running a VPS with 1GB with 2 woo commerce sites with lower traffic, i´m using most of the RAM sometimes, my config includes Vestacp. Is any alternative to Centos like Debian with ISPConfig that would use less memory and will performance better?
What config would you use for these two sites?
Thanks,
Javi.
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I use Ubuntu 14.04 + VestaCP (on [edit: 756MB] + SSD + SWAP on SSD) and everything running fine. I used lamp servers installed manually or ispconfig + centos .. but for me vesta + ubuntu was the best!
( my usage is ~5000 unique visits/day + vpn + other things and all time i have ~150MB ram free + swap space)
Is Ubuntu requires less memory than CentOS?
Well, things look like this: (all 3x OS's same system and fresh install)
No big difference,i prefer ubuntu (i'like this noob distribution..) but my things working fine on 756MB with Vesta.
http://www.linuxatemyram.com/
The ISPConfig packaged software that you'd be running is the same on CentOS and Debian and any other Linux distribution. All of these distributions run the same operating system. So switching isn't going to magically reduce your memory usage. Any configuration that uses less memory on Debian can also be applied on CentOS, so you should try looking into tweaking your settings to solve whatever problem you are having.
This. But usually in default configuration, Centos uses more recourses in a freshly installed machine. It can be customized and trimmed, if you want so.
Once i installed debian 7 minimial template on my LES and when it was idle it was just using only 3 or 4 MB of RAM.
You can also save a little RAM by switching from 64-bit to 32-bit. The savings is not that much, and there are other considerations to think about before you switch.
Hi,
We have some newbies using ISPconfig, the "configs" generated by it are junk, dangerous and outdated so don't expect anything to run optimized.
What makes you say that configs in ISPconfig is... dangerous and outdated? A panel that is entirely being setup manually (from apache to mysql and from fail2ban to postfix)? ISP is sitting on top of all needed software that the user himself is setting up.
Both are good, but if we choose we would go for Ubuntu
I used to love Debian but Ubuntu has less outdated software and longer support, so now I use that.
You can try to add some swap space too.. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-on-ubuntu-14-04