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[Serial Thrilla]

It's good to see that Niftyhost is back in the business.

I'm a bit worried about the provider of the VPS. I have made a research about the company "EaseVPS" on Google. The reviews I have found were quite old though so I think the problems that EaseVPS had back then are gone. At least I hope that everything is going to be well with EaseVPS. If something should go wrong I have a page full of providers which could be quite useful for Niftyhost (*search for more sponsors*). Is Jacob from EaseVPS here, actually? Or how have you got that deal? LEB/LET (Lowendbox/talk)?

It's a OpenVZ VPS with the kernel 2.6.18 :(. This OpenVZ-kernel is horrible and pretty old. The memory management is extremely & insanely bad. Atleast you have a decent amount of RAM. You could save a lot of memory when the VPS would have the newer OpenVZ-kernel 2.6.32 which has a great memory management. The current kernel can be very very trick and dangerous.

My ultra crappy low-end hardcore oversold free VPS with Nginx:

Code:

root@h1f:~# uname -a
Linux h1f 2.6.32-042stab055.10 #1 SMP Thu May 10 15:38:32 MSD 2012 i686 GNU/Linux
root@h1f:~# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           128         13        114          0          0          8
-/+ buffers/cache:          5        122
Swap:          640          0        640
root@h1f:~# top
top - 10:35:35 up 4 days, 13:40,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.01
Tasks:  10 total,   1 running,   9 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:    131072k total,    13984k used,   117088k free,        0k buffers
Swap:   655360k total,        0k used,   655360k free,     8616k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
    1 root      20   0  2028  692  600 S    0  0.5   0:08.94 init
    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd/1302
    3 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper/1302
  424 root      20   0  5488  956  572 S    0  0.7   0:00.00 sshd
  452 root      20   0  2288  768  608 S    0  0.6   0:00.56 cron
  547 root      20   0  8608  800  188 S    0  0.6   0:00.00 nginx
  548 www-data  20   0  8752 1636  824 S    0  1.2   0:11.45 nginx
  964 root      20   0  8544 3004 2460 S    0  2.3   0:00.15 sshd
  968 root      20   0  2976 1624 1284 S    0  1.2   0:00.01 bash
  976 root      20   0  2328 1080  896 R    0  0.8   0:00.00 top

Only 5MB RAM used with a proper Nginx configuration (Debian 6 tweaked). But meh, take a look at how bad the VPS actually is: http://freevps.us/thread-4855.html and if you want I can show you even more magic. A nice script made by the FreeVPS staffs that runs Nginx, MySQL & PHP with PHP-FPM and uses less than 100MB RAM on a VPS/dedicated server.