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what VPS for a very small mediawiki?
I need to get a small VPs (or possibly use a spare existing one) to create a very small (couple of dozen or so pages) mediawiki. It's all part of a slightly elaborate practical joke, but i figured it'd give me a bit of experience with mediawiki and potentially a webserver (I'm that guy who just dumps everything in /var/www).
anyone know what sort of VPS I'd need for that, I'm assuming it won't be much, potential target audience is again a few dozen people or so. will a 128 or 256MB leb manage it?
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128mb VPS on minimal would work fine.
128MB is ok, I had a vbulletin forum running on a 64MB VPS without problems. needed to disable all unnecessary services, replace openssh->dropbear, innodb disabled in mysql, nginx webserver, php-fpm.
I have a spare 128MB I'll give it a go on tonight i think, thanks guys.
my nginx knowledge is limited to it's pronunciation. Hurray, a new learning opportunity!
Just make sure to disable un-needed services. Honestly just use Minstall to minimalize it first.
vB doesn't work anymore on non-innodb enabled mySQL servers starting with 5, I think.
Though, 5 by itself is probably too heavy for 128MB.
@adrock Minstall would happily do this for you without any hassle.
registered the domain i wanted, got the VPS up and got minstall, all via my phone during lunch. The rest probably needs to wait 'til i get home.
i figure i want to do the clean, install dropbear and maybe extra repositories. Then mysql, nginx, and php. Then get mediawiki on there and beat it all into shape with a keyboard?
A friend suggested trying a bitnami stack, but i'm guessing with it using apache it might not be intended for use on a small VPS? It also sounds like it'd be easier but i'd learn a lot less.
If memory serves, MediaWiki supports sqlite, so you could even get away without running mysql.
Mediawiki supports everything known to man. If it doesn't, someone will probably make a plugin to force it to do exactly that.
Does it support my banana? It has the bad case of the Mondays.
They make pills for that, Pie
I wouldn't call that entirely without problems, but still cool.
it wasn't a spare 128mb i had, it was a spare 96mb. it's been challenging but i think i'm making progress, just learning what an nginx.conf should look like
i do have to stop nginx and mysql each time i need to apt-get install something due to low memory, but i figure i may as well see how far i can take this
Yeah thats lowend how I like it. Barely enough to do the job, you have to work hard tweaking and improving configurations :>
yeah, and it's forcing me to learn which is good, right?
i mean, if it doesn't work, then i'll either get the VPS upgraded, or start over on a better spec vps using what i've learned so far.