By the time you are reading this, the tiny VPS box that 96MB.com is sitting on has been online for 30 days! Thanks Sean and XenVZ for providing such a extremely inexpensive but yet stable box! For more reviews about this box, which has only 96MB of RAM but runs the entire 96MB.com, feel free to read my review. Happy 30-Day Anniversary, 96MB.com! Here is the current uptime at the time this post is written: uptime 12:04:33 up 30 days, 9:23, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.18, 0.12

After nine years of development and six and a half years since the first version of Nginx was released, we have finally managed to have a stable version of one of the most popular light-weight web servers in the world (which powers this website that you are reading right now as well)! You can download the official Linux/Unix version here: http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.0.0.tar.gz Windows version is available here: http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.0.0.zip Have fun Nginx-ing!

So, here comes the first post that I have made on this blog, which is running on a Xen VPS with 96MB of RAM. The first question is why did I do it? Inspired by LowEndBox.com, put it simply. I have purchased no less than 5 VPSes from various promotions from this popular site before I noticed that it is literally a one-man blog running on 80MB of RAM! As per here, the website receives about 45k of pageviews daily. (Edit: LowEndAdmin has kindly pointed out to me that as per here, pageview for LEB is about 250K per month, less than 10k per day, thanks LEA!) Therefore, as curious man as I have always been, I decide to try it myself and when I saw this offer listed on the LEB website, I decide to give it a try. Quite frankly speaking, the process of running a web server Read More