As you may know, I have mostly used CentOS or Scientific linux on my servers. I have decided to try running a site on a Debian server and things seem to be going well so far.

This site is currently running on a 128mb OpenVZ VPS from tinyvz.com which is part of Ramhost. The memory use seems to be about the same as it was last time I used an OpenVZ based VPS for a webserver. Disk usage is a little lower than my standard Scientific Linux/CentOS setups.

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           256        114        141          0          0          0
-/+ buffers/cache:        114        141
Swap:            0          0          0

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs             10G  436M  9.6G   5% /

IOPing:

4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=1 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=2 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=3 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=4 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=5 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=6 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=7 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=8 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=9 time=0.1 ms
4096 bytes from . (simfs /dev/simfs): request=10 time=0.1 ms

--- . (simfs /dev/simfs) ioping statistics ---
10 requests completed in 9363.0 ms, 7819 iops, 30.5 mb/s
min/avg/max/mdev = 0.1/0.1/0.1/0.0 ms

dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=16k count=64k conv=fdatasync:

65536+0 records in
65536+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 11.7192 s, 91.6 MB/s

GeekBench 2.1.13

Hostigation.com:
Pros:

• Very Fast support
• Excellent Uptime
• Fast and stable servers
• Multiple locations
• Cheap
• KVM and OpenVZ available
• Almost every issue is reported
• Image of CentOS provided for use on KVM VPSs without enough RAM to run the installer