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I've finally moved off from my shared hosting provider to a VPS. I'm using Slicehost and couldn't be happier. I'm paying $20 a month for VPS with 256MB and 10GB of storage. I do miss some of what cPanel had to offer, but I'm learning how to do the same sorts of things as what cPanel does for you.

**Features which I've setup**
Feature	Shared	Ubuntu VPS !
Apache2 / Php	Yes, but only a very restrictive Php was allowed to run	Latest Apache, full Php
MySQL	Yes - limited to 20 databases	Had to modify MySQL to run with less memory
Awstats	Works well	https://www.theeggeadventure.com/awstats/awstats.pl it took a bit to get setup, but it's working now. I had to install cronlog, as well as schedule the update to run. [cheyennecentral95.com]
mailman	installed	It'll be quite a bit of work to get mailman installed for just a couple of mailing lists. Mailman was taking up too much memory, so I disabled it.
an MTA	worked, but not configurable	installed postfix, courier-imap-ssl, saslauth - a real pain, but I have what I want. IMAP with SSL only, courier with SPF check

awstats

I had to create a couple of tiny scripts. The first to process my historical log files, and the second to run all configs by cron.

#!/bin/bash
 
for f in `ls -tr reunion*.gz`;
do
  if [ -f "$f" ]; then  
    /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=cheyennecentral95.com -logfile="gzip -cd ~/logs/$f |"
  fi
done

#!/bin/bash
 
echo " * `date` * "
ruby -v &> /dev/null
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
  export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
fi
 
for f in `ls /etc/awstats/awstats.*.com.conf`
do
  c=`echo $f | ruby -ne 'if /awstats\/awstats.(.*).conf/ then puts $1 end'`
  /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=$c -update 
done

Gallery2

I enabled the rss module, which seemed to work, but I started getting all sorts of 500 errors from Google.

Example:

http://www.theeggeadventure.com/gallery/srss/12392 = 500 Not permitted to view comments for this item

To fix this, I edited gallery/modules/rss/classes/RssGenerator.class and disabled the check for comments.

    if (false || isset($item['comments'])) {
        $data .= ' <comments>' . GalleryUtilities::markup($item['comments']) .
           '</comments>' . $lf;
    }