[R1lover]

Originally Posted by induslady

Hello Misterpopularity,

Thank you for your response.

I have placed an order with my host (Liquid web) to upgrade from VPS1 to VPS2. This means a higher server config:

Disk space - 100GB RAID
Memory - 768MB dedicated RAM, 1024MB burstable (Vs. the 256MB dedicated, 512MB bustable RAM in my existing server)
Bandwidth - 700GB Monthly transfer

My host says in my existing VPS server I am hitting a memory usage of 450-480MB RAM approximately, that is causing out-of-memory errors and hence the services like MySQL, httpd, etc. failing.

Does this make sense? Do you think it is a wise decision to migrate to this config?

Thanks.

I run a few vps's as well as dedicated servers and YES this makes sense.

You can run this command from root to check your vps limits and where you are at. (this is for openvz) I'm not sure what liquid web uses for there Virtulization though.

cat /proc/user_beancounters

This will give you the current useage, max held and of course your vps limits and also tell you if you have exceeded or been limited on any of them and how many failcnts you have. Failcnts= times that processes have failed due to being over the limit on resourses.

I will also say again with your current size you are in now way in need of a dedicated server, a mid to high end vps is all you need.

Also with the right config you can run that site with as little as 150mb of ram as well.