by Magno Urbano

If you work for the web, you have to host your sites, eventually. Then, one day, you order a VPS (Virtual Private Server) solution from some hosting company, generally using Plesk Control Pannel and Virtuozzo, hoping it will handle your sites’ demand. This is the day your nightmares begin: your VPS starts crashing and your hosting company say your site are demanding too much from your VPS and you need to upgrade and pay big bucks!

What your hosting company do not say is that a well configured VPS can handle 30,000 or more pageviews per day!

The problem with VPS servers is that, instead of throttling your sites or disabling them when traffic grows, the hosting companies prefer to enable a mechanism to make them crash, so one VPS will not compromise other VPS that may exist on the same machine. What do you think, huh? Do you like to see your sites crashing and losing sells or visitors?
Tired of all this, you are forced to upgrade – or face having your sites down most part of the time.

I work for the web since 96 and I have seen too much traps, arrogance and incompetence from all the big names in the hosting business. So, I decided to do something to solve this, and I started reconfiguring servers to make them stop crashing or at least minimizing the chance of a crash.

Believe it or not, one of my last customers is a guy running 5 high demand dynamic sites (2 Oscommerce shops and 3 wordpress blogs) that together receive 25,000 pageviews a day, on a VPS with 256 mb RAM that was crashing 10 to 20 times a day. You may say that such a server are not suitable for this demand and my answer is: yes, the server were not suitable for that demand before the reconfiguration. Now the server is running for a week without any crash and the guy is reporting me that he can sleep again!

This is how it works. If you want to hire me to reconfigure your VPS for better performance, you have to fill this form, answering the following questions (so I can analyse your case and tell you what to expect).

1. Do you have root ssh access?
2. What kind of root shell do you have? Bash? Csh? Tcsh?
3. How much memory your VPS has?
4. What kind of mail stuff you use? IMAP, POP, SMTP?
5. What version your Plesk Control Panel is?
6. What version your Virtuozzo Panel is?
7. What kind of statistics program do you use? Webalizer? AWStats?
8. What kind of programs do you run? PHP? cgi? Perl? Python?
9. Do your have cron jobs?

All the configuration I do is done thru the unix/linux shell (yes, I just work with unix/linux boxes), so I have to connect to your server using telnet or ssh under a root account to do the job. This reconfiguration costs USD $149.00.

Before doing any job, as I said, you have to send me the answers to the previous questions. So, click here and contact me.

If you have a wordpress blog you want to optimize I can do it too. So, contact me anyway!

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