dmarkey.com

I’m not going to lie, I’ve never been that fond of (k)ubuntu. I find it tries to hide a lot of stuff so users cant break much, but I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how it can become a light streamlined server OS suitable for something like a VPS with limited amounts of ram and disk space.

The install given to me by my provider was just 400MB in size. Granted there was a lot of stuff had to be installed right away like the different shells, vim and even man but it cut a lot of the unnecessary software out thats just not needed on a  server.

Finally my website dmarkey.com is up and running again. It has been a long time since i hosted on our shared DSL line in terenure which it performed well but now it has its own dedicated VPS(Virtual private server) with a whopping 128MB of RAM so dont be too hard on it!

I hope to have a good experience with using a VPS for the first time. The VPS company I’m with is the (dirt) cheap http://www.vpsvillage.com which I’ve bought their $10 dollar a month “hut” off them which gives me an Ubuntu based Linux virtual machine(other distributions available), 128M of dedicated RAM and 8G of dedicated disk space and a whopping 256GB of traffic per month. Plenty for a website like this.

I’m thinking of setting up a cron script to monitor the network reliability to see just how well we are performing, maybe ping it every 10 minutes from my workstation in work or something. To be honest though I’m not expect 99.9% uptime, especially not at $10 a month.