What Powers The Server Admin

— Our Story

Geek Moment

So what is the current setup like for The Server Admin?

I find myself always learning and tweaking the settings of a server to squeeze even more out of it to really see what I can do. No difference here at The Server Admin.

As my server roots are in Linux, well Linux was the only option for me, I have “some” past IIS experience but not enough to me for a solid/safe configuration…… Yet, but I am learning.

Update July 2025:

I keep moving things around but I am now running a new dedicated server and migrating my sites over to it.
Current Specs:
AMD Ryzen 7 5600G
64 GB’s RAM
1TB nvme drive.
FiberState.com Provider
Why an update? Well deal I got I could not pass up. Now I just have to set things up, backup scripts, a few rsync jobs, and this will be ready to go.

Update December 2024:

I have upgraded the VPS to a dedicated server over at Reliable Site because well I had to many VPS’s running around and I figured lets combine this to one location, so I did this. I didn’t go crazy with this “upgrade” but here are the new specs.

As you can see I moved to an I7 with 64 GB’s RAM, Now this was a bit of a down grade as I went from NVMe drives to an SSD. So there is slower disk read/writes. Also the I7 is a slower processor. Also I decided to switch to Caddy Webserver instead of LiteSpeed, as well I just like Caddy some more. Also this server is now running Plex, a GUI, and a Web Server, PHP, and MySQL. So I can’t complain at all. As you can see the Reqs/per/second went up, which honestly is nice but a bit of a surprise as LS Cache is amazing, and the NVMe drives. However I am not complaining.

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I have been working with Fran over at BuyVM.net now for over a decade, heck I was there the first day he moved into Fiberhub in Las Vegas.

With that as of March 23, 2024 we are hosting on the following.

  • BuyVM KVM Slice
  • 1 Core CPU
  • 2 GB’s RAM
  • 40 GB NVMe Disk Space
  • 1 Gbit Uplink
  • Tons of Bandwidth

Here is the NeoFetch of the VM were hosted on, and yes this is a full Litespeed, MySQL, PHP, full WordPress stack setup. Using 418MiB of RAM

Using Apache Bench I was able to test the main website and as you can see I was able to squeeze out 558/Reqs/Sec. Not bad at all.