php – Page 2 – Web Hosting Reviews – Compare | Independent

LiteSpeed Standard Edition + PHP 5.3.5 + MySQL 5.5.10

Posted on March 8, 2011January 7, 2012 by admin

LiteSpeed is good for Apache alternative, it is faster, more efficient, and also fully interchangeable with Apache. It is GUI based so you don’t have to worried about the setting, just copy paste, click right here and right there from the administration panel. The main shortage of LiteSpeed standard edition is just maximum 150 concurrent connection and 5 virtual hosts, still good for low to middle end websites with little budget. If you need webserver to serve more virtual host, you can switch to Nginx. Now we will begin with LiteSpeed installation.

VPS: CentOS 5.5 64bit with 256MB RAM OpenVZ
note:
– If you want to run the standard version on 64bit Linux, you need to install 32bit compatible libraries (glibc for CentOS) – ref: LiteSpeed
– If you want to run the standard version on 32bit Linux, pay attention for library directory name, change “/usr/lib64” to “/usr/lib”

Install dependencies and update

yum -y install gcc gcc-c++ glibc make automake GeoIP GeoIP-devel GeoIP-data fontconfig fontconfig-devel gd gd-devel pam pam-devel openldap openldap-devel libXpm libXpm-devel libtool libaio libaio-devel libtool-ltdl libtool-ltdl-devel libmcrypt libmcrypt-devel mhash mhash-devel unixODBC unixODBC-devel zip unzip nano perl openssl openssl-devel pcre pcre-devel bzip2 bzip2-devel libjpeg libjpeg-devel libpng libpng-devel freetype freetype-devel gmp gmp-devel aspell aspell-devel
yum -y update

Remove Old Apps

yum -y remove httpd php mysql

Now i’m going to update a few modules for PHP 5.3.5 dependencies to the latest version, because CentOS has not yet released the latest version of these modules. If you want to use current version from CentOS repository and make it simple by using yum, you can install the following modules and skip the Install / Update the latest modules version section. (go straight to the MySQL installation)

yum -y install gnupg curl curl-devel libidn libidn-devel libc-client libc-client-devel.`uname -i` libxslt tidy libtidy libtidy-devel

(more…)

{ 0 comments }

This is what happened between Apache, Nginx, and LiteSpeed Free Edition

Posted on February 16, 2011January 7, 2012 by admin

Few weeks ago i rent one box VPS to test resource usage from three different webservers without any tweaks, it is just basic installation with PHP and MySQL. This three webservers are Apache, Nginx, and LiteSpeed Free Edition. I’m using wordpress basic installation (without any plugins) plus one 404KB image and load it with 50 visitors maximum simultaneously. This VPS has 256MB memory (512MB burst) and using CentOS 5.5 32bit with OpenVZ virtualization. Allright here are the results.

Apache

(more…)

{ 0 comments }

Latest Stable Version Nginx 0.8.54 with PHP 5.3.5

Posted on February 13, 2011January 7, 2012 by admin

This is the improvement of my previous Nginx version 0.8.53 with PHP 5.3.5 installation, and also this time i’m not using php-fpm to run fastcgi, i’m using php-cli command to run fastcgi, and the result is memory usage decreased about 50MB. So let’s get it on!

VPS: CentOS 5.5 32bit with 256MB RAM XEN

Add EPEL and REMI repository, also update YUM (we will use REMI reposity for PHP 5.3.5)
EPEL 32bit

rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

EPEL 64bit

rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

REMI

rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm
yum -y update

Install Nginx

yum -y install GeoIP GeoIP-devel GeoIP-data perl libperl

32bit

rpm -Uvh http://centos.alt.ru/repository/centos/5/i386/nginx-stable-0.8.54-1.el5.i386.rpm

64bit

rpm -Uvh http://centos.alt.ru/repository/centos/5/x86_64/nginx-stable-0.8.54-1.el5.x86_64.rpm

start Nginx and add to init

/etc/init.d/nginx start
chkconfig --add nginx
chkconfig nginx on

Configure Nginx virtual host
As usual i prefer separate Nginx vhost for each domain so it will be easier to manage, and “/home” directory for domain root so it will ease you to synchronize domain root with ftp user root

create your domain root

mkdir -p /home/domain/public_html
mkdir -p /home/domain/logs

create two directory for domain vhost

mkdir /etc/nginx/sites-available
mkdir /etc/nginx/sites-enabled

edit Nginx configuration (more…)

{ 0 comments }

eAccelerator on PHP 5.3.5

Posted on February 11, 2011January 7, 2012 by admin

In my previous note i’m installing PHP 5.3.5 with XCache PHP opcode cacher, if you prefer to use eAccelerator for your PHP cacher, here is the guide note.

Download and install eAccelerator package

wget http://bart.eaccelerator.net/source/0.9.6.1/eaccelerator-0.9.6.1.zip
unzip eaccelerator-0.9.6.1.zip
cd eaccelerator-0.9.6.1
phpize
./configure
make
make install

add eAccelerator extension and settings to php.ini

nano /usr/local/lib/php.ini

zend_extension="/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/eaccelerator.so" eaccelerator.shm_size="16" eaccelerator.cache_dir="/tmp/eaccelerator" eaccelerator.enable="1" eaccelerator.optimizer="1" eaccelerator.check_mtime="1" eaccelerator.debug="0" eaccelerator.filter="" eaccelerator.shm_max="0" eaccelerator.shm_ttl="0" eaccelerator.shm_prune_period="0" eaccelerator.shm_only="0" eaccelerator.compress="1" eaccelerator.compress_level="9"

those setting above is default, for more information you can visit: eAccelerator Settings

create eAccelerator tmp folder

mkdir /tmp/eaccelerator
chmod 777 /tmp/eaccelerator

Check your PHP Version with eAccelerator installed

php -v

PHP 5.3.5 (cli) (built: Feb 11 2011 02:10:37)
Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies
with eAccelerator v0.9.6.1, Copyright (c) 2004-2010 eAccelerator, by eAccelerator

Reference: eAccelerator Wiki

{ 0 comments }

Ngiiinnxxxx

Posted on February 10, 2011January 7, 2012 by admin

New update: Nginx 0.8.54 + PHP 5.3.5 has been posted

I’m doing this on my CentOS 5.5 64bit with 256MB RAM OpenVZ VPS, another / my way to install Nginx with the appropriate modul for hosting WordPress site or blog. Nginx version is still 0.8.53 because i’m using Epel Repository.

Download Epel Repository
32bit

rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

64bit

rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

Update YUM

yum update

Install Nginx and required packages

yum install -y nginx patch libtool libmcrypt-devel libxml2-devel make automake gcc gcc-c++ sudo flex bison wget zlib-devel openssl-devel pcre pcre-devel pcre-devel gd-devel bzip2* libc-client-devel.x86_64

Start Nginx

chkconfig --add nginx
chkconfig nginx on
/etc/init.d/nginx start

Optional: Before starting Nginx, you have to stop and / or remove httpd

service httpd stop
yum remove -y httpd

Install MySQL

yum install -y mysql mysql-server mysql-devel
service mysqld start

(more…)

{ 0 comments }

Cloud Static Budget VPS Review

Posted on January 19, 2011January 7, 2012 by admin

Website: http://cloudstatic.com

Whois

Spec and Features

(more…)

{ 0 comments }

Understanding Shared and Reseller Hosting

Posted on January 17, 2011January 7, 2012 by admin

We cannot deny that today almost of the informations in our mother earth is spreading widely and freely through the internet. The informations are not only spreading from the press release site or news site, but many ordinary people who has blog or we usually called them “blogger” also took part of it. They are updating their personal blog daily. Even a half of probably more than a half is using their blog as a livelihood to get money. And now what is the essential thing that we need for creating a daily blog? Of course a domain name and a web hosting, but for the present time i will not talk about domain, let’s get a little bit closer to web hosting especially shared and reseller.

For creating a website or blog, you need to host your content in the web hosting so people can visit your blog and read your writing via internet. Web hosting is built and divided from a server to a dozens or hundreds of web hosting account, so it can be called as shared hosting. You can choose one of the admin console from vary choice for web hosting. There are some paid admin console management such as cPanel, Direct Admin, and Plesk which are user friendly, also there are some free admin console management like kloxo and webmin or virtualmin for the expert.

One shared hosting account usually allocated about 32MB to 64MB for memory usage and fair share cpu for processing your website’s script. Not quite a lot of memory allocation for shared hosting because most of web hosting provider only permit low memory usage or we could say shared hosting only for small blog or small website which only have a standard cpu usage for script processing and quite low visitor. You probably can expect your shared hosting used for static website or small dynamic website with database and programming script like php, asp, or java (as long as it is not making a large cpu usage), also for the visitors you can expect shared hosting can handle about a hundred visitors a day.

If you need a little more resource for script processing and high visitors (about three hundreds to five hundreds a day), you can take consideration by using reseller hosting. You thought that reseller hosting is only purchased if we want to start for web hosting business? Reseller hosting today is not only used to resell web hosting resource. For people who need more power or more account in their website or blog, they may use reseller hosting as is basically can be allocated for creating more than one shared hosting, so naturally the web hosting provider give more power to reseller hosting than shared hosting.

Other than people using reseller hosting for they middle class website or blog, reseller hosting is also good for someone who wants to start business in web hosting area. Why don’t we just puchase virtual private server or dedicated server so we will have more power and there are no limits or restrictions? Yes you can do that if you are experienced and have knowledge about build, manage, and monitor your private server. But if you are newly businessman in web hosting with no knowledge about server, you better start with reseller hosting because it is prepared, built, and managed. You only have to create some packages and setup the account with a few clicks in GUI admin console management, also taking a place for customer service, no need to worry about your hosting because your reseller hosting provider is monitoring your account.

That is all about shared and reseller hosting basic story for beginning, i will go more specific and detail about web hosting problems and discussion in the next articles.

{ 0 comments }