Running Apache on 128MB RAM?

[masterbator]

is this possible? i tried it myself, with a bit tweaking & optimizing
but always end up having my 128 RAM swallowed mostly by apache.

masterbator Reviewed by masterbator on 3rd Feb 2011. Running Apache on 128MB RAM? is this possible? i tried it myself, with a bit tweaking & optimizing but always end up having my 128 RAM swallowed mostly by apache. Rating: 5

[kolaps]

Yeah, i'd say you'd better run nginx + php-fpm

apache is so heavy...

[JacksonWeb]

using the following codes on centos
yum -y install httpd
yum -y install mysqld mysql-server
yum -y install php php-mysql
yum -y install php-gd php-imap
service httpd start
service mysqld start

i am able to run a website with not more than 50mb of ram without any control panel

[vizoomer]

just don't use any control panel

[mhuang2286]

128MB would be enough depending on your situation. ie
having 50,000 people a day downloading stuff vs. a simple personal blog.
For a simple webserver I think it should be fine.

[CyberHacK]

nGinx + PHP-FPM

Or just do this:

yum -y install httpd
yum -y install mysqld mysql-server
yum -y install php php-mysql
yum -y install php-gd php-imap
service httpd start
service mysqld start

You don't really need Apache. It depends.

[DLow]

It does depend, What are you needing apache for ?

[masterbator]

It does depend, What are you needing apache for ?

just for hosting 1-2 blogs with low traffic


it's a 64MB vps actually which is burstable to 128MB

[nixhostcouk]

I would suggest you look into lighttpd or nginx, nginx prefered, since it's much better at handling connections then lighttpd.

setup mysql, nginx, tune the mysql for low memory, maybe introduce some disk caching on static content (if running wordpress)

We have clients running setups like this.

[ab1ko]

Running nginx is a must, now if you run PHP-FPM set the one pool and set it to use few workers. You will see what is the memory usage of each PHP-FPM child, however running a web server on 64 MB machine would need certain drastic drawbacks, as not using MySQL (or disabling the InnoDB storage and optimizing MySQL for this low-level environment). Better yet is to use a remote MySQL database or use SQLite for that matter.

Also, if you set caching in nginx be prepared for it to eat up some memory too, if disable it you should have a web server running happily under 45-50 MB.