On Nov 17, 11:12 pm, "Nyenyec N" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm still on the fence about which provider to pick for hosting my > non-mission critical application. (I only work on it as a hobby.) > > Any advice from people who use VPS solutions for running TG apps?
I do exactly that for the same reasons and am quite content I am on the (what was then) minimum plan at unixshell.com for $8/month. That gives me 64MB ram, 3GB disk (inc. OS) and 64GB transfer. The minimum now is 128MB/6GB/128GB for $20/month, less of a bargin, but stilll competitive. It's Xen based. I run debian unstable with a minimal install, and other than setting up a virtual hosting layout for my few casual clients (http, logging, webalizer, logrotate),it's straight forward to administer. And having full control of your OS setup is a delight after years of bargin basement shared hosting. I ran lighttpd as a proxy to my applications at first, but started to hit the memory leak bug (a big issue with only 64MB). Ran two TurboGears apps and MySQL tuned for low memory usage. I only run a dozen or so low traffic sites, so it coped fine except when the other sites on the real server stole all my processing time. It was even fine with Postgres, but just noticably slower. Then I came across nginx[1] from the thread here[2]. I now run it nginx as a front-end proxy (and static content server), which it does extraordanarily well, for ridiculously little memory usage. Two of my users emailed me to ask what I'd done to make their 'site go faster' when I switched from lighty. The proxying is fast and full featured (including load balancing and X-servefile equivalent) and a single process (async programming at its best). Plus it has the most frequent release cycle of any software I've ever seen. Initally the docs were in russion, which fortuanatly my brother speaks well enough for me to mail him snippets to translate, but now there's an english wiki with good information[3]. The only downside I would say is that getting php working is non-trivial, and requires a per-user php-cgi instsance (which has its benefits) It's definatly not a speedy server (coupled with the fact its in the US and I'm in the UK), but its not obviously slow. But it's been great for me to play around with and even make some money from as a casual side buisness. I recommend. [1] http://nginx.net/ [2] http://groups-beta.google.com/group/turbogears/browse_thread/thread/a56960ea38e3ea6d/e78e98897e720172 [3] http://wiki.codemongers.com/Nginx -- wavydavy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
