Where shalt KatSpace go?

[kerravonsen]

We have liftoff!

Sort of.

I now have www.katspace.org running, with a webserver and my CMS, Posy, and sundry needed stuff. Unfortunately, the virtual machine it's running on doesn't have very much memory, which means that it runs slooowly when doing anything interesting.

I also have the same site running on my home machine, at www.katspace.homelinux.org which has the opposite problem: a fast machine and lots of memory, but a slow connection.

So, I invite you, dear listeners, to test which one is worse... because I need some data to figure out whether I should scrap the whole virtual host thing and just serve everything from my home machine (after upgrading my connection), or whether I'm just being impatient and that katspace.org is perfectly fine.

ETA: I have now decided to cancel my virtual machine account, and point katspace.org at my home machine, and upgrade my connection. Thanks to everyone who checked out stuff for me.

Comments

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

I have been dinking around both of them, and the first time I tried them they were both a little slow, but I think my ISP was acting up. The text pages on both are fine now... I get nothing (.org) or a server error (.homelinux.org) when I hit the graphics link.

[kerravonsen]

The text pages on both are fine now...
Maybe that's because they're in your cache?

[kerravonsen]

I've fixed the bug with the graphics link now.

Fast Webspace

[waveney.livejournal.com]

Well if you need a fast home for katspace, my server is (reasonably) fast, well connected and you know the service provider...

The Linux based server has 45 sites on it, and is running below 10% utilisation most of the time. See Waveney Web Services (http://www.wavwebs.com) for details. (You know many of the other sites on the machine (Hermit, Knightwriter, Redemption and others)

Re: Fast Webspace

[kerravonsen]

Thanks for the offer, but the exchange rate makes it really expensive.

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

How little memory does it have? Our rented server has 512M, which is not much, but it happily not only runs three Apaches full of mod_perl but also DNS and mail services and stuff. Memory lasts a lot longer when you don't have any graphical user stuff running...

[kerravonsen]

It has a minute 64M! Not enough to run my CGI stuff comfortably.
I've decided to cancel the service and run it all on my own machine.

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's tiny. Pretty much useless, I'd say. The place we rent from don't go lower than 256.

Just out of curiousity, how much did that cost? We're paying about 50 euros a month for ours, but that's an actual physical machine (which means that we can run FreeBSD on it) with fairly generous amounts of disk (36G) and bandwidth (50G/month).

[kerravonsen]

It didn't cost much; US$10 a month, for 64M memory and 2G of disk space, and 5G bandwidth.

My home machine has 512M memory, and that seems plenty for me, with what I do on it.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

A very short test suggested that both sites were reasonably speedy, with no obvious difference between them.

I did find one broken link. I did a Search, and it found 59 matches. But when I clicked on the "see more" in The links here are listed by category. (... see more), it attempted to find http://links.html/ and not surprisingly failed to do so.

[kerravonsen]

Thanks!
I'm definitely going to change over to running off my home machine, now.

(Note to self: do another trawl of broken links in the near future)

[reveilles.livejournal.com]

The homelinux one was a faster response-time for me.

[kerravonsen]

Hmmm, but did you check before or after I changed it, I wonder?

[reveilles.livejournal.com]

I tried it around 5-6 p.m. yesterday, EST.