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Are you running serendipity on a lowend box? I'm curious to see it
Actually, I'll have one of those finished and open-sourced by Sept 21st. Won't even need PHP.
@sleddog: Yes. And I'm not much into this low-memory-optimisation. But it works really fine.
What about something like sNews?
Who says we need nginx, anyways? You could get by on something even more minimal than that, probably.
128MB is the lowest I've ever had.
Depends what you need. thttpd is nice for static files etc.
nginx + php-fpm is the smallest memory footprint for serving PHP. If you just want to serve static files, or CGI scripts, then thttpd is the way to go.
FreeDOS with 512k RAM? :P
@sleddog: I doubt that. I think you can go even further with gatling or fnord.
Sure, there's other alternatives for serving static files. But the memory saving compared to thttpd will be minimal, probably in the hundreds of kB's But there may be features lacking in thttpd so those two servers you mention are certainly worth a look.
Well s9y runs on gatling+php+fastcgi+sqlite very nicely. But I'm generally not a big fan of MySQL so I always switch to SQLite, so I have no real comparable result. So I leave it to others: http://synflood.at/blog/index.php?/archives/568-A-comparison-of-web-servers.html
There is also Mathopd.
http://www.mathopd.org/
Cool. Is that your site? If so, what's the RAM usage like?
32MB, virtualbox running debian5 under windows XP. It idles at around 11MB, and hits peaks of ~28MB used, when receiving full throttle with glftpd and doing an apt-get upgrade. when not apt-getting, it peaks at ~17MB. It could conceivably be running with 20MB ram and still have some headroom.
It's running lighttpd+php, mocks socks5 proxy and glftpd.
Just for kicks while we are talking about small PHP servers: MicroApache was one of the smallest I ever ran across while working on windows.
24mb really sped it up, and I turned off the vswap. http://24mb-wp.d3vm.net/
If someone is just looking for a blog that uses minimal memory, maybe a static site generator (for example Jekyll) + Disqus/Intense Debate/Facebook comments/JS Kit? No PHP needed so just a fast minimal web server would do.
24MB and moved to a KVM VPS, are you virtualizing over KVM? :S
Yes, I have OpenVZ running inside a KVM VPS.
Created another VPS, this time with 16mb and installed MyBB.
http://16mb-mybb.d3vm.net/
Nice! xD
http://16mb-mybb.d3vm.net/
Some white pages and error 502 from here... but still, working also. Nice indeed!
I'm trying to figure out why it locks up when you use a lastpost link, so there has been some restarts of the VPS, proxy reconfigurations (I only have 1 public IP for both of these small VPSs), and the database locking up
probably not enough memory to allocate to mysql memory buffers
What MySQL? It's using SQLite.
@dmmcintyre3 Still with 16Mo? It's working good now!
Who is up to finding a CMS for that? :-)
The MyBB install has 16mb RAM and no swap. The wordpress install has 24mb RAM and no swap
Ok dmm, you have a KVM VPS with that 16MB machine. How you configure your network/IPs to allow public access? Some xinetd trick? I am VERY interested
NAT+nginx reverse proxy