Comments on: Memory will be the real performance bottleneck on your VPS http://plasticboy.com/archives/2009/11/30/memory-will-be-the-real-performance-bottleneck-on-your-vps/ Ben Williams' blog about technology, Linux, digital music, Rhapsody, veganism, and a little politics. Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:55:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: afternoon http://plasticboy.com/archives/2009/11/30/memory-will-be-the-real-performance-bottleneck-on-your-vps/comment-page-1/#comment-68104 afternoon Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:17:35 +0000 http://plasticboy.com/?p=3495#comment-68104 <p>I highly recommend a combination of nginx and FastCGI. I'm personally running both PHP and Python (Django) on a single Linode. I have 3 php-cgi instances resident at about 20MB each. nginx is resident at 2MB. Although the RAM usage is not much different, nginx serves static content, so the PHP processes service far fewer requests, raising the requests/sec limit.</p> I highly recommend a combination of nginx and FastCGI. I’m personally running both PHP and Python (Django) on a single Linode. I have 3 php-cgi instances resident at about 20MB each. nginx is resident at 2MB. Although the RAM usage is not much different, nginx serves static content, so the PHP processes service far fewer requests, raising the requests/sec limit.

]]> By: How to handle 1000’s of concurrent users on a 360MB VPS http://plasticboy.com/archives/2009/11/30/memory-will-be-the-real-performance-bottleneck-on-your-vps/comment-page-1/#comment-64777 How to handle 1000’s of concurrent users on a 360MB VPS Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:18:22 +0000 http://plasticboy.com/?p=3495#comment-64777 <p>[...] has been some recent confusion about how much memory you need in a web server to handle a huge number of concurrent requests. I [...]</p> [...] has been some recent confusion about how much memory you need in a web server to handle a huge number of concurrent requests. I [...]

]]> By: Ben http://plasticboy.com/archives/2009/11/30/memory-will-be-the-real-performance-bottleneck-on-your-vps/comment-page-1/#comment-64775 Ben Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:46:34 +0000 http://plasticboy.com/?p=3495#comment-64775 <p>Nice analysis, David. I wasn't aware of the memory cost of 64 bit.</p> Nice analysis, David. I wasn’t aware of the memory cost of 64 bit.

]]> By: davidw http://plasticboy.com/archives/2009/11/30/memory-will-be-the-real-performance-bottleneck-on-your-vps/comment-page-1/#comment-64771 davidw Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:46:21 +0000 http://plasticboy.com/?p=3495#comment-64771 <p>Linode does pretty well in terms of memory usage, because it lets you choose 32 bit, as opposed to 64 bit (like Slicehost). I did some numbers of my own a while back, and while those were the only two I compared, Linode really won out:</p> <p>http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/11/24/slicehost-vs-linode</p> Linode does pretty well in terms of memory usage, because it lets you choose 32 bit, as opposed to 64 bit (like Slicehost). I did some numbers of my own a while back, and while those were the only two I compared, Linode really won out:

http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/11/24/slicehost-vs-linode

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