Comments on: So Long Mediatemple, Hello Slicehost http://jonsview.com/2008/07/18/so-long-mediatemple-hello-slicehost My life with technology Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:32:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Jon Stacey http://jonsview.com/2008/07/18/so-long-mediatemple-hello-slicehost/comment-page-1#comment-361 Jon Stacey Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:09:12 +0000 http://jonsview.com/?p=88#comment-361 I knew I shouldn't have said that.... I picked up a short term project on Friday that is very PHP intensive (Drupal based). Each process uses around 50mb of memory with the possibility of going as high as 100mb. So as you can imagine Apache MaxClients has to be brought down significantly to keep the server from hitting swap and crumbling. That's fine for this project since it's strictly development but it has the negative side effect of reducing the capacity of all my other projects running on the server. So I spent all day yesterday benchmarking different configurations of Apache2 with mod_php against lighttpd with php-cgi (fastcgi). I found lighttpd to provide an advantage over Apache with the variety of applications that I'm running because I could cap the PHP threads separately from the server. I can keep the resource intensive PHP threads in check while still giving the web server sufficient memory to pump out static content without hitting swap like I was with mod_php. I thought fastcgi was supposed to be dead and buried because it has some issues so I'm a little leary of the future of this kind of setup. But, for now lighttpd and fastcgi with php is getting the job done so I'll leave it alone. When I'm getting ready to deploy my ruby on rails applications I'll be back for more evaluation :-) I knew I shouldn’t have said that…. I picked up a short term project on Friday that is very PHP intensive (Drupal based). Each process uses around 50mb of memory with the possibility of going as high as 100mb. So as you can imagine Apache MaxClients has to be brought down significantly to keep the server from hitting swap and crumbling. That’s fine for this project since it’s strictly development but it has the negative side effect of reducing the capacity of all my other projects running on the server.

So I spent all day yesterday benchmarking different configurations of Apache2 with mod_php against lighttpd with php-cgi (fastcgi). I found lighttpd to provide an advantage over Apache with the variety of applications that I’m running because I could cap the PHP threads separately from the server. I can keep the resource intensive PHP threads in check while still giving the web server sufficient memory to pump out static content without hitting swap like I was with mod_php.

I thought fastcgi was supposed to be dead and buried because it has some issues so I’m a little leary of the future of this kind of setup. But, for now lighttpd and fastcgi with php is getting the job done so I’ll leave it alone. When I’m getting ready to deploy my ruby on rails applications I’ll be back for more evaluation :-)

]]> By: Jon Stacey http://jonsview.com/2008/07/18/so-long-mediatemple-hello-slicehost/comment-page-1#comment-357 Jon Stacey Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:19:09 +0000 http://jonsview.com/?p=88#comment-357 LAMP. I've used Apache since I first started playing around with servers (~2001) and haven't found any reasons to consider something else. Granted, my implementations have always been low stress. LAMP. I’ve used Apache since I first started playing around with servers (~2001) and haven’t found any reasons to consider something else. Granted, my implementations have always been low stress.

]]> By: Dilip P http://jonsview.com/2008/07/18/so-long-mediatemple-hello-slicehost/comment-page-1#comment-356 Dilip P Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:09:14 +0000 http://jonsview.com/?p=88#comment-356 Hey, I moved to slicehost as well. I'm setting it up and getting the feel of it. Are you on LAMP or LEMP ? Hey,

I moved to slicehost as well. I’m setting it up and getting the feel of it. Are you on LAMP or LEMP ?

]]> By: Jon Stacey http://jonsview.com/2008/07/18/so-long-mediatemple-hello-slicehost/comment-page-1#comment-334 Jon Stacey Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:26:09 +0000 http://jonsview.com/?p=88#comment-334 @Matt - Thanks for the warm welcome! @Yuri - Thanks for the farewell! I'll keep an eye out for the (uv) and I'll definitely be trying the (xv) when it's available. @Matt - Thanks for the warm welcome!

@Yuri - Thanks for the farewell! I’ll keep an eye out for the (uv) and I’ll definitely be trying the (xv) when it’s available.

]]> By: MT Yuri http://jonsview.com/2008/07/18/so-long-mediatemple-hello-slicehost/comment-page-1#comment-332 MT Yuri Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:43:37 +0000 http://jonsview.com/?p=88#comment-332 Sorry to see you go :( Check back with us in a bit, our (dv) U is going to be available really soon ( http://mediatemple.net/labs/ubuntudv/ ). It's going to be running on even more powerful HP servers with the latest Intel Harpertown processors, Virtuozzo 4 with IO priorities ( Xen doesn't have that ), newer faster backups, on-demand disk and memory upgrades and larger (dv) resource allocations :) Sorry to see you go :(

Check back with us in a bit, our (dv) U is going to be available really soon ( http://mediatemple.net/labs/ubuntudv/ ). It’s going to be running on even more powerful HP servers with the latest Intel Harpertown processors, Virtuozzo 4 with IO priorities ( Xen doesn’t have that ), newer faster backups, on-demand disk and memory upgrades and larger (dv) resource allocations :)

]]> By: slicehost matt http://jonsview.com/2008/07/18/so-long-mediatemple-hello-slicehost/comment-page-1#comment-330 slicehost matt Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:55:56 +0000 http://jonsview.com/?p=88#comment-330 Hi Jon, thanks for taking the time to write this up. We really appreciate you joining and endorsing our service. Please let us know if you need anything and welcome aboard! Hi Jon, thanks for taking the time to write this up. We really appreciate you joining and endorsing our service. Please let us know if you need anything and welcome aboard!

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