http://dreamhostpstools.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:33:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As we said on a previous article, we were waiting for the last chapters on tunning our LiteSpeed webserver. Finnaly, yui-life.com's webmaster has published in two articles the steps to get a custom PHP5 with eAccelerator and some tips on tunning the webserver. I have tested his solution and I can ... http://dreamhostpstools.com/2008/02/28/next-steps-on-getting-more-performance-with-litespeed-webserver/ As I had to stop vpsadjust development due this unforeseen event, I started to prepare two new tools which I think could be useful for any Dreamhost PS owner. Right now I only have the ideas and expected features, with the time we'll see the final result. The tools are ... http://dreamhostpstools.com/2008/02/14/two-new-tools-in-the-forge/ Sounds interesting isn't it? Just reading the title of this post you get the idea of how interesting must be the tutorial, and I can tell you it works, as this website and other domains on this PS are running now with LiteSpeed, and thanks to the tips of Yui-Life's webmaster. You ... http://dreamhostpstools.com/2008/02/14/optimizing-dreamhost-ps-cpu-and-memory-usage-by-installing-litespeed-web-server/ Today, Dreamhost decided to add a captcha system at the server usage web page, so no more automated adjustment of CPU/Memory settings is possible. It's quite obvious that Dreamhost noticed there were some tools around there using smart decisions on server usage, and that wasn't helping their incomes, and adding ... http://dreamhostpstools.com/2008/02/14/bye-bye-vpsadjust/ From the original site: vpsinfo is a Linux server monitoring script, written in PHP, that provides web access to system status information. It gathers the output from several common Linux commands into one web page, providing a quick overview of the system's current state. This script coded by Doubles T. Robbins ... http://dreamhostpstools.com/2008/01/27/tool-vpsinfo-your-ps-status-in-a-browser/ Any website usually has its own forums, so here they are: http://dreamhostpstools.com/forums So post there whatever you want to share with us, your suggestions, ideas, questions, or even your problems related with Dreamhost's Private Servers. Maybe we could find a solution for you. Indeed a short post. http://dreamhostpstools.com/2008/01/17/dreamhostpstoolss-forums/ I coded another tool, vpsadjust, this one is saving myself some bucks already and providing a dynamic amount of CPU and memory resources. This script basically does monitoring on the free resources at your PS, if there are some amounts of “wasted” resources, i.e. 300Mb of free memory, it logs at ... http://dreamhostpstools.com/2007/11/19/saving-cash-at-your-dreamhost-ps/ It’s not the first time I find that my PS it’s not working properly due it’s has lost NFS mounts, or it went out of memory due a sudden peek of traffic or maybe because a few zombie processes are hanging around produced by my not-so-good programming skill ... http://dreamhostpstools.com/2007/11/19/first-post/