I am discontinuing this service at the end of this month (Oct 2021) because I am consolidating servers, and frankly I never used this VPS the way I intended to. This blog was hosted on this server for nearly a year, and I am thankful for that.
Read More »PHP-Friends, Germany- BenchmarkIn this post, you will find an introduction and overview of VirtFusion server control panel. This post is a hybrid of sorts, that is, will cover the “what” and the “how” together in this post. The “what” will cover how to install the VirtFusion panel, what are the minimum hardware and operating system specifications, and so on. We will refer to the installation and configuration documentation for this. In parallel, I will also include screenshots from the time I had tested this panel. This is intended to aid a subscriber to a VPS, i.e. a typical end user’s perspective.
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Between Mid-2019 and End 2022, I tested several Virtual Private Servers (VPS) for own use or for reviews. The tools I used were YABS (Yet Another Benchmarking Service) and similar benchmark tools, as well as network testing ranging from Speedtest to iperf. What began as a curiosity (what is this beast called server benchmarking?) turned into a hobby of sorts- and I learnt a lot along the way.
Read More »Benchmarks of Virtual Private ServersIn this post, you will learn how you can host your WordPress Site on a Budget: for under 10 US dollars a year. Also find different ways to install WordPress on Shared Hosting as well as Virtual Private Servers (VPS). In November and early December 2020, I ran a variety of tests on different configurations of WordPress hosting ranging from Shares Hosting to OVZ and KVM VPS’es. This testing was self-motivated, because I wanted to see how frugal one can get in terms of pricing, not features. My work culminated in a blog post on LowEndSpirit, and a series of smaller posts on the LowEndspirit Forum. I decided to collate the smaller posts and publish them here, because I believe this work deserves as wide an audience as it can get. Read More »How to host your WordPress Site on a Budget
In this post I will write about the Greencloud’s KVM based VPS in Singapore, a hefty machine with 12 GB RAM from last month. This… Read More »Greencloud KVM VPS in Singapore: Black Friday 2020 offer
Review of Server Avatar panel for Virtual Private Servers (VPS). With this tool you can add users, configure firewall and CMS like WordPress to your VPS.
Updates and modifications to this blog including theme, plugins, hosting and other changes. This is a running list maintained by Amar vyas
Introduction:
curl -LsO bench.monster/speedtest.sh; bash speedtest.sh -asia
PHP-Friends.de
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OS : Debian GNU/Linux 10 (64 Bit)
Virt/Kernel : Dedicated / 4.19.0-6-amd64
CPU Model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz
CPU Cores : 2 @ 2399.996 MHz x86_64 4096 KB Cache
CPU Flags : AES-NI Enabled & VM-x/AMD-V Enabled
Load Average : 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Total Space : 64G (1.4G ~3% used)
Total RAM : 91 MB / 5962 MB (513 MB Buff)
Total SWAP : 0 MB / 0 MB
Uptime : 7 days 20:36
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ASN & ISP : AS44066, First Colo GmbH
Organization : PHP Friends
Location : Frankfurt am Main, Germany / DE
Region : Hesse