DNS & sizing questions

[hcgtv]

Hi,

For the last few years I've hosted my sites on my own Debian server. This worked out great till the traffic saturated my DSL upload speed of 384kbs.

I've tried out shared hosting but I didn't care too much for it. Now my sites are currently on a friend's computer, I like the speed my sites are getting but miss the control I once had.

Over the last couple of days I've been reading up on VPS technologies and I like what I hear about Xen. So I'm thinking of trying it out and unixshell seems to be the place to be.

I have a couple of pre-sales questions:

1. When I hosted my own sites, I used ZoneEdit for my DNS. Would this still be the case on a VPS or is there a unixshell DNS that I could plug into Dotster?

2. As for sizing my partition, I currently run 6 domains and plan to expand. They are all dynamic in nature, MySQL and PHP based. I'd like to get good performance from the CMS, Forum and Wiki apps but can't decide on what would be the best option.

Thanks.

[hart]

[QUOTE=hcgtv]
1. When I hosted my own sites, I used ZoneEdit for my DNS. Would this still be the case on a VPS or is there a unixshell DNS that I could plug into Dotster?

2. As for sizing my partition, I currently run 6 domains and plan to expand. They are all dynamic in nature, MySQL and PHP based. I'd like to get good performance from the CMS, Forum and Wiki apps but can't decide on what would be the best option.[/QUOTE]
I use ZoneEdit for three out of the four domains that I'm hosting - no problem. When you get a VM on UnixShell you get a Linux box with root - you can do what you want with it (except IRC).

I don't know about MySQL except that you'd probably need a bit more memory than I've got (I have two 32MB VMs) ;-)

But, (and please, someone correct me if I'm wrong), you can upgrade your plan without a reinstallation if you need more memory so don't worry about being 'stuck'.

[hcgtv]

Well, ZoneEdit it remains, their service has always been good to me.

It would be nice to know what dynamic sites are running on what sized VPS accounts. Maybe a thread, detailing the apps running, their specs, etc. Like a show me yours type of thread or forum.

Thanks.

[matta]

Check out 'Uses' under the Wiki.

[hcgtv]

[QUOTE=matta]Check out 'Uses' under the Wiki.[/QUOTE]
Yes, I read that page on the wiki.

Since it stops at 96, there aren't many listings for people running on the higher end. I would think I would need to start at 128, see how it goes and then move up if needed.

Thanks.

[matta]

The 128 should be sufficient in my opinion. As pointed out we can easily upgrade plans later on.