Hi I have the following resources in my VPS :- CPU Cores : 1 Guranteed Memory : 256 MB Burst Memory : 512 Bandwith : 1000 gb OpenVZ Virtualization Now I am a little confused on choosing the correct softwares. My Needs are the following :- 1. Only one domain needs to be hosted on this vps 2. There should be normal things like forums, support tickets, etc. 3. E-Mail Server 4. A few miscellaneous things. 5. FTP Server 6. The web site / Domain would have approximately 500 registered users only. I am to decide on the packages i have to use such as web server, and everything else so that i don't cross the resource limits of my vps. Please Advice
Taking everything in consideration of the stuff you are going to host, i can say now that VPS is going to run out of memory really quickly. Try to bump that memory to 1gb or 2gb. Webserver - Apache 2 (Needs to optimized) - Nginx (Lightweight and easy on VPS) - Lighttpd (Lightweight webserver) - Php 5 - Mysql I would go with Nginx. Mail - Postfix - Amavisd-new (Spam and antivirus interface for MTA) - Spamassassin - Clamav For mail, i would consider Google Apps. One less service to host and manage. Ftp - Pureftpd Other stuff - Iptables (Firewall) If you want to you can install ISPconfig 3 to have a nice interface for your services but if you only gonna host one domain than ISPConfig3 is maybe overkill. Good luck
I completed everything under 100 MB ram usage Under loads it would go say 2.5 times thats 250 MB well under my 512 MB burst-able limit
Wait until you get some load on it, memory usage will rise since you got everything running on it .. trust me ;-) I'd suggest using sftp instead of ftp if you're the only one (or only a few people) that will be going to use it. Also, take damir's tip in consideration and use google apps to handle your e-mail, it will save you A LOT of hassle and less load/memory.
I took Damir's advice and I am using google apps No FTP server installed on it . . . Didnt see the need to it.
