[gentoo-server] Gentoo as a stable web/mysql server

[gentoo-server] Gentoo as a stable web/mysql server

[Mark Shields]

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I've been using Gentoo as a stable install on a VPS (Slicehost) for about 3
months now.  We're switching from Slicehost to Linode in a couple of weeks.
 Currently using APC with PHP.  Anyone have any experience with tweaking
Gentoo on a VPS server they'd like to share?

(yeah this mailing list is dead so trying to spark some conversation)

- Mark Shields

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Re: [gentoo-server] Gentoo as a stable web/mysql server

[fire-eyes]

I have been using Linode for at least a half year now. I use Gentoo on 
it. The only issues I have had is not being able to get a grsecurity 
kernel to boot on it for the life of me. Nobody seems to know why. I 
posted to the grsecurity list and magically most post never actually got 
sent out to everyone else.

Other than that it has been an exceptional experience. I once joked to 
their support that their control panel not only did not support 128 char 
passwords, but that there was some sort of conflict between pretending 
to store it and actually storing it, meaning you had some password under 
128 chars, and you couldn't log back in.

I only expected them to fix my login issue and tell me how many chars to 
use, but they made it work with 128 chars. That's just how they are.

If you go with a custom kernel (likely), be sure to bookmark this and 
read it later:

http://library.linode.com/linode-platform/custom-instances/pv-grub-custom-compiled-kernel

If you just can't get your kernel to boot, start with the config from 
their latest linode kernel and work from there.

On 05/23/2011 06:55 PM, Mark Shields wrote:
> I've been using Gentoo as a stable install on a VPS (Slicehost) for about 3
> months now.  We're switching from Slicehost to Linode in a couple of weeks.
>   Currently using APC with PHP.  Anyone have any experience with tweaking
> Gentoo on a VPS server they'd like to share?
>
> (yeah this mailing list is dead so trying to spark some conversation)
>
> - Mark Shields
>