Hey all, I've had my Linode since about Jan 2010 and started a couple sites.

I was curious about what kind of sites people are hosting on their Linodes and thought it would be fun and educational for linoders to list their:

- Web site Name
- Web site URL
- Linode package
- Any interesting things your site does in terms of resource usage (traffic, mem usage, etc.)

I'll go first,

All of the following run on the same Linode 360

shouldget.com
- Nothing special. Rails application that runs full text search engine Sphinx.

big4work.com
- Rails app. Makes a lot of DB/Sphinx calls. Also performs a pretty big "scrape/import" of other websites 3x a day. My Disk IO spikes to about 6k for ~10 mins when this happens. Am experimenting with decreasing priority of these tasks to be cause less of a resource crunch.

myblackjack2.com,
mysamsungepix.com,
thesmartfone.com
- Wordpress sites, combined 60k visits a month. Using php-fpm instead of php5-cgi (which was horrible, php-fpm FTW!)

So far my 1 x Linode 360 handles all the sites pretty well aside from big4work.com's scheduled tasks, which im working on.

That's impressive for a 360! I also have a 360 hosting 3 websites- one basic static, 2 wordpress. All running on a standard LAMP stack-
http://bryantrv.com - around 6,500 visits per month, though a fair amount of bandwidth (a lot of large pdf file downloads)
http://rx4rv.com - a wordpress blog- ~2500 visits/month.
http://opensourcemachine.org - another wordpress blog, ~2k visits per month.

I've had one hiccup- ran out of memory and got stuck in swap hell- a bit more fine tuning to do, though after that I install monit- not sure if I have it configured correctly (my "day job" has been brutal the past couple of months), but I'll see.

I'm running Debian Lenny 32 bit (my home computers are a mix of Lenny and Squeeze) and using Virtualmin (though I may start and stop it as needed to save resources, if I have to).

FWIW- I could not be happier or more impressed with Linode. I moved from a shared environment with deteriorating support,

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My employer uses Linode for internal web apps and hosting client websites...

Internally we use MyITCRM, vTiger, and 2 Joomla websites for customer front-end.

Client sites are all Joomla based:
www.mnfop3.com - Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #3, its a cop organization.

www.mnfop7.com - Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #7, another cop organization, just somewhere north of us.

www.alarys.com - Its a famous bar (I'm told) in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Has a huge image gallery of bartenders, with over 8,000 photos loaded into a PhocaGallery instance. Only active employees are viewable, though.

I have a 540 running 34 sites, about half wordpress, half static. DB is hosted on same machine. Plan on putting more on this machine as it is only using current about 248mb of the 540.

All the WP sites are using W3 Total Cache and the whole server probably doesn't get > than 100-200k hits a month.

Running Cherokee 0.99.48 Webserver, MySQL 5.1.37 on Ubuntu 9.10.

Sorry no URLs. I keep my clients private, except for occasional links to me from their websites.

Aside from what I wrote in that post three years ago, I now also use my Linode to host school project files. And if the teachers let me, I'll hand in my work in the form of a wiki instead of a Microsoft Word document.

Like this for example:

http://neo101.org/publicwiki/index.php/ ... 1%22_paper

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wow - thats pretty slick. did your teachers ever agree to letting you turn papers in like that?

I run a Linode 512 for the NWS Wakefield SKYWARN Amateur Radio Support Team. We have about 100 user accounts now, projecting about 200 in another year. A mix of ham radio operators and local emergency managers across parts of three states.

While our @wx4akq.org e-mail is handled first by our Linode, most users are forwarding to Google Apps Mail. We were originally using the Google Apps platform for a lot of what we do but are transitioning off of it. Users with accounts there already will be allowed to keep them (an @g.wx4akq.org domain alias was set up to allow easy forwarding to Google). Users manage their e-mail and forwarding, plus Spamassassin filter settings, through a custom control panel upon login to our Operations Portal.

Our public-facing web site- http://www.wx4akq.org/ - plus a special site geared toward the emergency management community are also hosted on our Linode.

We use the Linode-based Ops Portal to receive and log reports from storm spotters via our radio networks. These reports go into a MySQL database and are held for a short period before being released directly to the National Weather Service. We also have the capability to query our logs via a two-way radio messaging system in the event of internet failure at the Forecast Office.

You can take a peek at some of the behind-the-scenes stuff here:
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id ... ENhyelg6HU

The Linode is also driving an EMWIN (Emergency Managers Weather Information Network) ingest system, which fetches every available weather product from the National Weather Service Telecommunications Gateway (NWSTG) via FTP once every minute. The text products are received as a zipped batch of text files-- anywhere from a couple to a few hundred at a time. They are then individually parsed by product type, location codes, issuing office, expiry, and checked for dupes, then indexed in a MySQL database. From there, location-specific e-mail alerts are generated for our team members. The full EMWIN feed is available for public access at http://emwin.wx4akq.org/.

Lastly, our Linode drives two VoIP systems and an IRC service for our internal use. The first VoIP system is FreePBX, powering our peer-to-peer telephony, our public-facing toll free access number, and a local 24/7 Weatherline that receives its audio directly from the NOAA Weatheradio systems over the Internet. The second VoIP system is TheBridge, which is an Echolink conference server, used to link amateur radio communications systems together (as well as direct computer users). This allows us to tie multiple radio systems together during large-scale events.

So, our little Linode 512 gets quite a workout and performs admirably! Disk space is getting a little tight so we'll be bumping up to the next tier soon.

1) Linode 1024
- 2 websites: My blog (Wordpress) and a family website (Drupal)
- withholding the website names
- 1024 Linode package
- 20-40 hits a day. I am running a LAMP on CentOS 5.

2) Linode 1024
- 2 websites: My "professional" website (Drupal) and a girl's website (custom PHP I dabble in)
- withholding the website names
- 1024 Linode Package
- 1-2 hits a week if I'm lucky . I am running a LAMP on CentOS 5

Am thinking of buying another Linode 1024.

From reading the above posts, it seems like I am oversubscribing, but I'd rather have the horsepower just in case. I don't know much about computers.

Yeah, that's overkill. I'm running a phpBB on a 512 that on a big day will get over half a million hits, average more like 50k.

Thanks :). They didn't complain, perhaps because the wiki version contained an MS Word version as a URL to a downloadable file, and I also printed out the MS Word version and put that copy into their physical post box. At least I didn't get punished for it - they gave me an A for the report.

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I've done very occasional Internet publishing of schoolwork, and having a nice-looking printed product is the key. As long as the grader/teacher/professor doesn't have to get out of "the zone" to read your paper, their mood won't be fouled.

One of the things I enjoy about the stricter paper formats (e.g. MLA) is that the design of the document is tear-provokingly boring and precisely defined. You WILL have 1" margins, double-spacing, left justification, one serif font of one size, etc. It skips the whole "nice-looking" requirement and makes programmatic formatting easy.

Note to the Linux users: install and use the Microsoft TrueType core fonts, including Times New Roman, if you have to submit papers in .doc format. Trust me on this.

ObLinode: Don't miss a second of IRC action! screen and irssi will let you catch up on the day's follies from any lab on campus.

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