Comments on: Choose the right VPS to host your busy websites http://ywywy.com/q/2008/12/16/choose-the-right-vps-to-host-your-busy-websites/ "Why, why, why?" Essence of Inquisitive Minds Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:17:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jiwei http://ywywy.com/q/2008/12/16/choose-the-right-vps-to-host-your-busy-websites/comment-page-1/#comment-1257 Jiwei Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:19:20 +0000 http://ywywy.com/q/?p=45#comment-1257 The hostname entry on VPSlink is a name for your reference. Anything will do. VPSlink package doesn't come with domain name, another trap for getting more future revenue and increasing the barrier-to-exit. It's cheaper using GoDaddy. I signed up for one year term and am now on the 2nd year. Their service is top notch. I have nothing to complain about. Regarding mysql optimization, because mysql is running on local, connection time is minimal. You're following good practice, but it doesn't improve performance much. The more important things are mysql buffer size, table index, etc. I found the mysql tuning on this page helpful http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Docs:PerformanceFastCGI I didn't follow it to the letter given my VPS only 512MB RAM. So you need to adjust as you go. OReilly has a good book on MySQL performance tuning, that I used to have and lost in lending. BTW, one sort of mistake I made was choosing Fedora, which I only realized after over a year. Updating packages becomes difficult. By all means, Fedora is beta software. Updating core has its own risks. If you're on Redhat line, use CentOs instead which has a lot stable and long-term support. Hope these help. The hostname entry on VPSlink is a name for your reference. Anything will do. VPSlink package doesn’t come with domain name, another trap for getting more future revenue and increasing the barrier-to-exit. It’s cheaper using GoDaddy.

I signed up for one year term and am now on the 2nd year. Their service is top notch. I have nothing to complain about.

Regarding mysql optimization, because mysql is running on local, connection time is minimal. You’re following good practice, but it doesn’t improve performance much. The more important things are mysql buffer size, table index, etc. I found the mysql tuning on this page helpful http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Docs:PerformanceFastCGI
I didn’t follow it to the letter given my VPS only 512MB RAM. So you need to adjust as you go.

OReilly has a good book on MySQL performance tuning, that I used to have and lost in lending.

BTW, one sort of mistake I made was choosing Fedora, which I only realized after over a year. Updating packages becomes difficult. By all means, Fedora is beta software. Updating core has its own risks. If you’re on Redhat line, use CentOs instead which has a lot stable and long-term support.

Hope these help.

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