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Why every website owner/developer, should learn Linux/Servers
A couple of years ago, during some tough times, I learned a valuable lesson.
Back then, I owned a website that was doing really well in Google search results, and I was earning a solid income from AdSense. As the site grew more popular, I kept upgrading my shared hosting plan—eventually reaching the highest tier, which cost around $30/month. I even paid three months in advance (big mistake).
When that billing period ended, my hosting account was automatically suspended. To make things worse, I couldn’t recharge my credit card due to political issues in my country. That meant my website stayed offline for several days.
In desperation, I searched for a shared host that accepted Bitcoin (it was my only option at the time). Unfortunately, the one I found turned out to be terrible—slow, unstable, and constantly going down without me realizing it. Google noticed the frequent downtime and completely wiped my site from the search results because of the host’s poor reliability.
So why am I talking about this now, years later?
Well, a few years ago I decided to take full control and host my website on my own Linux server—no control panels, just pure command-line setup. Not long after, I came across this brilliant article: Yes, You Can Run 18 Static Sites on a 64MB Link-1 VPS
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At first, managing the server and setting up Apache, PHP, and MySQL was tough—but it was absolutely worth it.
Now I’m completely free from shared hosting companies and their limits. I take uptime and performance seriously— maybe site speed isn’t a huge ranking factor, but even if it improves my site by 0.0001%, I’ll still do it.
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so what configuration you are running your sites on right now. do share with us too. cpu/ram etc
2GB of RAM/1vCore 30Gb hdd. WordPress runs on Ngninx/PHP 8.4 and SQLite instead of MySQL using SQLite plugin, I bout it for $7/Yr.
^^ and this is not the best configuration at all still better than any shared-host with their oversold servers & bloated software, if you want better look for VPS with Ryzen CPU since it had best IPC even better than EPYC.
Is it latest wordpress? Also what do you think about offloading the database using 3rd party service?
We run ASP.Net 2.0 on Windows Server 2003.
256MB RAM, 20GB HDD, backup is copying
D:\webtoE:\backup.Are we not a devloper anymore?
You want to optimize your website response time, or reducing it bottleneck? you should monitor your server first and see what causing it to stutter underload.
BTW even if your DB is in GBs size, and there is little load on it (concurrent visitors ) you wont's gain much. (I'm not excerpt) but load disruption may cause delay/high response time (how much I don't know), so it all depend the situation you are in.
A rare tone in a crowded song
Honesty I always liked ASP.NET but never tried really to learn it.
yeah sure!
and what about backup? where do you put it? s3?
the irony lol
Does your setup right now come with 7$/year?
that's great man, more knowledge the better for sure.
Currently yes, but I'm not satfied with it, if you had high traffic website don't try to be cheap on it (dependence on income you're making ) go as far as a 200$/month dedicated server (with dedicated port/line), I had a lot of good companies good offers you can PM to send you their name without any affiliation or links.
I use very simple
rsyncscript (runs with cron) to backup my website to another storage VPS , you can ask ChatGPT to create one for you , and if you're not that expert you should always back it up to your PC from time to time