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Originally Posted by bonjurkes
thanks for all the links, honestly I was planning to use Hostgator or Dreamhost.
Right now I am on 512 mb VPS, only reason I want to switch to another provider is I am sick off adjusting confs which never worked very well.
I am planning to open an adult site after a long time, most likely a blog, so I dont want to have pain in the ass. Because server gets crashed in few mins and I have to be online to recover it's ass, and that may not be always possible.
Thanks for ideas, recommendations. Baboon guy, thanks for your reply also, I will do some more tweaking on my linode
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The default my.cnf and httpd.conf files are crap for a small VPS. If you're using those unaltered files then your sites are in trouble already. Look into tuning-primer.sh and mysqltuner.pl. Once you run those you'll have mysql in much better shape.
query caching isn't enabled in my.cnf by default. Fixing that is one of the easiest and biggest performance boosts you'll get.
As for apache, drop MaxClients to something much lower like 30. I don't remember if keepalive is enabled by default or not. If you have it enabled, make sure KeepAliveTimeout is set pretty low. I have mine set to 2.
Honestly once you get your linode up and running the way you want it you'll be thrilled with it. I've had a 512 for about a year now and have been really happy with it. I run 5 sites from one linode.
If you're able to run your own server and I am guessing you are, take a look at securedservers.com.