Running a web server on 256 RAM

[Louie Miranda]

Yes, it will run fine. How many visitors do you expect that will visit your
site in an hour? or in a day?
Usually, Apache and MySQL will shoot up if you get digg, I mean if you get a
lot of visitors instantly.

But, it will survive.
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On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Suvayu Ali
<fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com<fatkasuvayu%2Blinux at gmail.com>
> wrote:

> homburg at tips-Q.com wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:08:15 -0700
>> Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Quoting homburg at tips-Q.com:
>>>
>>>  On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:46:55 +0200
>>>> James Matthews <nytrokiss at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Good, I am now trying that out!
>>>>>
>>>>>  Late to this thread. If "that" was not lighttpd, I
>>>> highly recommend it and use it on our site. I uses
>>>> considerably less resources than Apache and is
>>>> significantly faster. BTW, YouTube and wikipedia also
>>>> use lighttpd.
>>>>
>>> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.wikipedia.org
>>>
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighttpd
>> "
>> Lighttpd is used by some of the biggest websites, including
>> sites such as YouTube, Wikipedia and meebo. Wikimedia uses
>> Lighttpd for some of its services[4][5][6][7] as does
>> SourceForge.[7][8] Three of the most famous torrent listing
>> websites, The Pirate Bay, Mininova and isoHunt, which have
>> more than 1,000 hits per second, also use Lighttpd.[9]
>> Lighttpd currently holds fifth place on the Netcraft "Web
>> Server Survey" (November 2008).[10]"
>>
>>
> Looks like that page is outdated, or hasn't caught the attention of the
> editors recently.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia#Software_and_hardware
>
> "Wikipedia currently runs on dedicated clusters of Linux servers (mainly
> Ubuntu[96][97]), with a few OpenSolaris machines for ZFS. As of February
> 2008, there were 300 in Florida, 26 in Amsterdam, and 23 in Yahoo!'s Korean
> hosting facility in Seoul.[98] Wikipedia employed a single server until
> 2004, when the server setup was expanded into a distributed multitier
> architecture. In January 2005, the project ran on 39 dedicated servers
> located in Florida. This configuration included a single master database
> server running MySQL, multiple slave database servers, 21 web servers
> running the Apache HTTP Server, and seven Squid cache servers."
>
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>
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>
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