Slicehost

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
phpmyadmin	worked fine, restricted to your own databases	works, shows all databases, I need to remember my root db password though (r). https://www.theeggeadventure.com/phpmyadmin/

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.

<geshi lang="bash" source="file">../../logs/rerun.sh</geshi>

<geshi lang="bash" source="file">../../bin/runstats.sh</geshi>

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. <geshi lang="php>

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

</geshi>

Munin

I've had my server run out of memory a few times since setting up mail services. I've installed [Munin] to help monitor server performance.