Remove excess packages (apache2, sendmail, bind9, samba, nscd, etc) and install the basic components needed for a light-weight HTTP(S) web server:
- dropbear (SSH)
- iptables (firewall)
- dash (replaces bash)
- syslogd
- MySQL (v5.1+ W/O Innodb, configured for lowend VPS)
- PHP-FPM (v5.3+ with APC installed and configured)
- exim4 (light mail server)
- nginx (v1.0+ from dotdeb, configured for lowend VPS. Change worker_processes number in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf according to number of your CPUs)
- vim, nano, mc, htop, iftop & iotop (more to come...)
Includes sample nginx config files for PHP sites. You can create a basic site shell (complete with nginx vhost) like this:
./setup-debian.sh site example.com
When running the iptables or dropbear install you must specify a SSH port. Remember, port 22 is the default. It's recomended that you change this from 22 just to save server load from attacks on that port.
wget --no-check-certificate https://raw.github.com/Xeoncross/lowendscript/master/setup-debian.sh
$ ./setup-debian.sh dotdeb
$ ./setup-debian.sh system
$ ./setup-debian.sh dropbear 22 <b>*(or any other port number)</b>
$ ./setup-debian.sh iptables
$ ./setup-debian.sh mysql
$ ./setup-debian.sh nginx
$ ./setup-debian.sh php
$ ./setup-debian.sh exim4
$ ./setup-debian.sh site example.com
$ ./setup-debian.sh webmin
Supported only on OpenVZ only, vzfree reports correct memory usage
$ ./setup-debian.sh vzfree
Run the classic Disk IO (dd) & Classic Network (cachefly) Test
$ ./setup-debian.sh test
Neat python script to report memory usage per app
$ ./setup-debian.sh ps_mem
Updates Ubuntu /etc/apt/sources.list to default based on whatever version you are running
$ ./setup-debian.sh apt
MySQL root is given a new password which is located in ~root/.my.cnf. After installing the full set, ram usage reaches ~40-45Mb. By default APC configured to use 16Mb for caching. To reduce ram usage, you may disable APC by moving or deleting the following file - /etc/php5/conf.d/apc.ini I recommend installing Ajenti and/or Webmin to manage your VPS. For security reasons delete, move or password protect "new_domain/public/phpinfo.php" file, which installed automatically on each new site installation.
LowEndBox admin (LEA), Xeoncross, ilevkov and many others.