On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 18:08 -0700, Christopher Baus wrote: > I'm in the process of getting off a VServer setup. See my posts on the > supermicro. > > I have two accounts at rosehosting with mixed results. The first server > works fine. No complaints. I felt as those I was getting a good service. > The second server has terrible Disk I/O performance. I use cyrus IMAP > because of its server side filtering, and performance has been terrible. > I finally traced it down to poor I/O performance in the vserver. > > I think it is worth it for me to have my own dedicated box since I use my > server all the time. I have subversion repositories and often run emacs > on the console for remote development. > > Virtual hosts might be good for toying around, but if you have any serious > requirements I just don't think they are worth it considering the cost of > low end servers and hosting these days.
As long as you don't get UML account on a box that is over-committed, performance isn't too bad. I'm at a 15:1 ratio on my mail UML machine (dual PIV 2.66Ghz, 192MB RAM), and I do get I/O problems every once in a while due to someone else doing a bunch of I/O. This really shows up in compiling and package installation -- a yum upgrade can take up to 15 minutes! Another complaint is disk space, I only have 15GB. As for as speed of the server over all, I run Qmail, BincImap, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, Apache/SSL/Php, Mysql, irssi, centericq, etc. and I really don't have any problems with speed. I've even gone as far to run NXserver (or now that FreeNX is out, I'll use that) for full screen remote X-sessions with KDE, Mozilla, etc. No problems with speed except again, disk I/O. I could certainly see that a UML machine would be inappropriate for a busy multi-user server, but for small things like the RLUG website and mailing list (running on a UML machine with a 40:1 ratio, btw), it is a cheep entry way into self-hosting. No machine to buy, no fixing broken hardware. That said, some day I will move to my own box, but until I outgrow the price/performance/ease of admin I get with a UML account, I'll stick with that. Mark
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