VPSSIM , Centmin Mod, EasyEngine or any other...

ckissi

Which of the above do you prefer and why ?

Kindy

VPSSIM by Vietnam i not use .

hawkjohn7

easyengine

easy

centminmod.. best for my 256mb ram vps

mehargags

VestaCP custom install

bash vst-install.sh --nginx yes --apache yes --phpfpm no --vsftpd yes --proftpd no --exim yes --dovecot no --spamassassin no --clamav no --named no--iptables yes --fail2ban yes --mysql yes --postgresql no --remi no --quota no

LES

Centminmod - good features and well optimised for low end vps

doughnet

Caddy installer. So simple and easy to use. Also the automatic letsencrypt ssl and http/2 enabled is awesome as well.

Fritz

VPSSIM gives me A+ in web speed performance by GTMetrix, Sucuri and Pingdom (Wordpress) and I'm using a 256MB VPS.

eva2000

Centmin Mod = because I developed it ^_^

Latest beta is my go to - of course because i'm testing and developing it https://centminmod.com/changelog.html

Letsencrypt SSL integration into Centmin Mod is being publicly beta tested in latest beta via addons/acmetool.sh - full details at https://community.centminmod.com/threads/8290/

acmetool.sh has both command line and shell menu support for management of letsencrypt ssl certificate issuance, renewal, reissues etc

./acmetool.sh acme-menu

--------------------------------------------------------
        SSL Management
--------------------------------------------------------
1).  acemtool.sh install
2).  acmetool.sh update
3).  acmetool.sh setup
4).  Issue SSL Management
5).  Renew SSL Management
6).  Reissue SSL Management
7).  Renew All Staging /Test Certs
8).  Renew ALL Live Certs
9).  Renew All Live Certs HTTPS Default
10). Exit
--------------------------------------------------------
Enter option [ 1 - 10 ] 1
--------------------------------------------------------

Some other Centmin Mod info discussed at https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/1734066/#Comment_1734066

For Caddy users, also did benchmarks against Centmin Mod Nginx for HTTP/2 performance at https://community.centminmod.com/threads/caddy-http-2-server-benchmarks.5170/

FYI, Centmin Mod has plans to integrate the following web servers too besides Nginx eventually:

• Apache 2.4 + php-fpm https://community.centminmod.com/threads/custom-apache-2-4-rpms-for-centmin-mod-lemp-stack.4471/
• OpenLiteSpeed + LSAPI PHP
• Caddy server + php-fpm https://community.centminmod.com/threads/caddy-http-2-server-benchmarks.5170/
• H2O HTTP/s server maybe https://community.centminmod.com/threads/http-2-h2o-vs-openlitespeed-vs-nginx-spdy-3-1.2564/

The goal is to be able to auto generate 1 time a site vhost account and have relevant Nginx, Apache, OpenLiteSpeed and Caddy vhosts auto generated all at same time. So you can switch between web servers for the same web site or use them in reverse proxy configs. All this is of course way into the future and provided the other web servers performance evaluations are up to scratch. Apache is included just for reverse proxy backends if they require .htaccess file support. OpenLiteSpeed due to superior LSAPI PHP performance. Just need for Caddy and H2O's HTTP/2 performance to catch up to Nginx HTTP/2 performance as they're way behind right now

Also Centmin Mod Nginx comes with support for OpenSSL 1.0.2+, LibreSSL 2.3/2.4 and soon OpenSSL 1.1.0 (and eventually BoringSSL) - some testing https://community.centminmod.com/threads/openssl-1-1-0-pre6-vs-openssl-1-0-2h-vs-openssl-1-0-1e-vs-libressl-2-4-2-vs-libressl-2-3-6.8272/. You can currently switch between OpenSSL and LibreSSL via single variable LIBRESSL_SWITCH='y' or ='n' and a centmin.sh menu option 4 recompile of Nginx.

Centmin Mod Nginx latest beta also fully supports nginx dynamic module support (FAQ item 39) out of the box for the following nginx modules xslt, perl, imagefilter, geoip, stream, headers more, setmisc, echo, nginx lua, srcccache, develkit, memc, redis2, ngx_pagespeed, brotli compression, fancyindex and nginScript https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/nginScript/

Edit: oh an not to mention dual ECDSA+RSA SSL certificate support https://community.centminmod.com/threads/nginx-1-11-0-introduces-dual-ecdsa-rsa-ssl-certificate-support.7449/

Edit: oh and everyone loves a bit of Brotli in their diets too for smaller page sizes over HTTPS - Centmin Mod Nginx in latest beta supports Nginx Brotli module for better compression than HTTP gzip/deflate https://community.centminmod.com/threads/brotli-compression-algorithm-coming-to-chrome-browser-soon.5806/

Junkless

I have tried all 3 of them (VPSSIM, CMM and EE) and CMM is my top choice, anyday-everyday.

eva2000

Cheers @easy @LES @Junkless

FYI, also Centmin Mod has multiple avenues for related LEMP stack security and bug fix update notifications from social media posts, official site and forum updates (forum mailings to subscribed members) as well as newest avenue via optional web push notifications to desktop, mobile and tablet browsers https://community.centminmod.com/threads/centminmod-com-web-push-notifications-tests.7583/

ckissi

I'm using EE on few of my VPSs , tried also CMM unfortunately I'm missing some things like easily list all existing domains or e.g. ability to associate different version of PHP with different domains.

eva2000

ckissi said: easily list all existing domains

just type cminfo or just peak into /usr/local/nginx/conf/conf.d/

see also https://centminmod.com/configfiles.html

multiple php versions is on the to do list eventually but not right now

mgilang

Any of that script can easy integrate http2 ?

sonic

Nothing can beat Centmidmod. I tried all of them i now i only use Centminmod.

eva2000

mgilang said: Any of that script can easy integrate http2 ?

Centmin Mod supports Nginx HTTP/2 out of box using Nginx 1.11 branch and has supported HTTP/2 since Nginx 1.9.3+ https://centminmod.com/http2-nginx.html

sonic said: Nothing can beat Centmidmod. I tried all of them i now i only use Centminmod.

cheers @sonic

inthecloudblog

Cmm.

G.L. has been great and his product flies

mohsengham

1+ for EasyEngine

bersy

eva2000 said: Centmin Mod supports Nginx HTTP/2 out of box

Does it support an automatic HTTP/2 + SPDY selection? https://blog.cloudflare.com/open-sourcing-our-nginx-http-2-spdy-code/

eva2000

bersy said: Does it support an automatic HTTP/2 + SPDY selection? https://blog.cloudflare.com/open-sourcing-our-nginx-http-2-spdy-code/

Centmin Mod 123.09beta01 optionally supports HTTP/2 + Cloudflare SPDY patch https://community.centminmod.com/posts/32789/
It's supported but not enabled by default. You'd have to enable it via 2 variables in persistent config file you can create at /etc/centminmod/custom_config.inc which can override any defaults in centmin.sh shell based menu https://centminmod.com/menu.html

NGINX_SPDYPATCHED='y'
LIBRESSL_SWITCH='n'

then run centmin.sh menu option 4 to recompile Nginx

1st variable enables Cloudflare SPDY patching and 2nd variable switches Centmin Mod Nginx from default LibreSSL 2.4 to OpenSSL 1.0.2h+.

Centmin Mod optionally supports OpenSSL 1.1.0 https://community.centminmod.com/posts/35257/ however, that is with Openresty Lua nginx modules disabled (default). Seems Lua nginx modules need updating to support OpenSSL 1.1.0 https://community.centminmod.com/posts/35260/. But don't think OpenSSL 1.1.0 supports Cloudflare SPDY patch.

But both Chrome and Firefox ended/ending SPDY + NPN Protocol support, so limited usefulness for Cloudflare HTTP/2 + SPDY patch setups.

inthecloudblog said: Cmm.

G.L. has been great and his product flies

cheers @inthecloudblog

Tion

I am using Keyhelp for my smaller quick and dirty projects.

On the upside it's very stable, gets developed by devs on a regular payroll by a big german hoster and is idiot proof once installed.
Downside of the slow and steady approach is no nginx, http/2 and all that stuff.

At least Let's Encrypt support got included in the latest patch a few days ago.

hiphiphip0

@eva2000
Hi,
If one site is compromised, would all domains be infected.
I'm asking because easyengine use www-data across all sites.

eva2000

hiphiphip0 said: @eva2000 Hi, If one site is compromised, would all domains be infected. I'm asking because easyengine use www-data across all sites.

It's not that simple for LEMP stacks see discussion comments at https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/1760357/#Comment_1760357

Centmin Mod LEMP stack installer doesn't do fully isolated shared hosting support see FAQ item 2 at https://centminmod.com/faq.html. FAQ is worth reading as is Getting Started Guide at https://centminmod.com/getstarted.html

eva2000 said: I had an old alpha quality internal code preview of how centmin mod jailed chroot would work at https://community.centminmod.com/threads/jailed-chrooted-sftp-ssh-user-nginx-vhost-menu.8/. Opting to support nginx vhost auto generation in several modes - existing non-jailed mode, SCP+SFTP only access (no SSH) or SSH+SCP+SFTP access modes. Still something way into the future. Focus now is getting latest centmin mod beta out as stable https://centminmod.com/changelog.html

Latest experiments were in July last month https://community.centminmod.com/posts/33453/

Primary focus is getting Centmin Mod 123.09beta01 to stable release along with it's Letsencrypt SSL integration into Nginx vhost generator via addons/acmetool.sh https://community.centminmod.com/threads/8290/

FYI, Centmin Mod 123.09beta01 also has autoprotect.sh tool which tries to auto convert .htaccess deny from all .htaccess to nginx equivalent automatically as an extra security precaution https://community.centminmod.com/threads/autoprotect-sh-apache-htaccess-check-migration-to-nginx-deny-all.7308/

Some relevant discussions tagged around autoprotect.sh https://community.centminmod.com/tags/autoprotectsh/

eva2000

Also if you like benchmarks https://centminmod.com/benchmarks.html

eva2000

Also for Centmin Mod, if you need to mass generate new site nginx vhost accounts and mysql databases check out https://community.centminmod.com/threads/guide-save-time-creating-nginx-vhost-mysql-users-and-databases.8257/

desperand

centminMod very nice app, with really nice settings inside. Few options i miss (backups with duply), but everything else is perfect. Highly recommend.

eva2000

desperand said: centminMod very nice app, with really nice settings inside. Few options i miss (backups with duply), but everything else is perfect. Highly recommend.

cheers

Yes no backups via duply. Centmin Mod does have a premium dbbackup.sh script available to premium members https://community.centminmod.com/threads/dbbackup-sh-quick-mysql-database-backups-for-centmin-mod-stack.4573/. There's a cmbackup.sh for files + db in the works too.

dbbackup.sh features

• MySQL database and schema only backups + /etc/my.cnf backup
• Multi-threaded parallel compression default pigz with options for lbzip2, pbzip2 and pxz. For single cpu core servers, falls back from pigz to gzip.
• Amazon S3 Storage support and option to define one of three S3 storage classes (Standard, Standard – IA, and Glacier) to control your Amazon S3 storage costs and Amazon S3 availability and durability. Disabled by default.
• Amazon S3 Upload Dry Run Mode support. Disabled by default.

• Remote FTP/SFTP support - can define up to 3 separate FTP/SFTP locations to remotely transfer your backups for added redundancy and data safeguard.Disabled by default.
  Backup Retention threshold set in days. Older than XX days deletion routine for both local backups and remote FTP/SFTP backups. Amazon S3 you can setup your own S3 bucket's lifecycle management in AWS Console. Example for * retention threshold based deletion shown here.

• Email and Pushover.net mobile notification options on backup runs. Disabled by default.

• Persistent db-config.ini separate file option so custom settings survive dbbackup.sh script updates.
• Full backup run logging to log file for diagnostic troubleshooting or historic records

example of push notification to Android mobile on backup completion

zeze

My test setup 3 VMs + 1 LB for a wordpress site.

I actually liked vpssim as it support bysync out of the box.
But I needed ngx_pagespeed and recompiling nginx on vpssim is a bit tedious so now I'm using centminmod.

eva2000

@leaderkim said:
My test setup 3 VMs + 1 LB for a wordpress site.

I actually liked vpssim as it support bysync out of the box.
But I needed ngx_pagespeed and recompiling nginx on vpssim is a bit tedious so now I'm using centminmod.

welcome to Centmin Mod LEMP stack and yes ngx_pagespeed does wonders if your site style/theme allow it to benefit from nginx pagespeed https://community.centminmod.com/threads/benefits-of-ngx_pagespeed.1032/

fyi, for folks reading ngx_pagespeed 1.11 branch compatibility is only in Centmin Mod 123.09beta01 and higher not stable 123.08stable due to new incompatibilities introduced in ngx_pagespeed 1.10+.

ngx_pagespeed is disabled by default, but can be enabled in 123.09beta01 via persistent config file /etc/centminmod/custom_config.inc set variables

NGXDYNAMIC_NGXPAGESPEED='y'
NGINX_PAGESPEED='y'

then run centmin.sh menu option 4 to recompile nginx 1.11.3+

• 1st variable enables nginx dynamic module support for ngx_pagespeed which lowers the nginx binary size footprint dramatically to ~3.3MB
• 2nd variable enables nginx ngx_pagespeed module integration into nginx. Then follow ngx_pagespeed guide for enabling ngx_pagespeed at https://centminmod.com/nginx_ngx_pagespeed.html

Particularly how to use pscontrol cmd to enable and disable pagespeed globally for all nginx vhosts https://centminmod.com/nginx_ngx_pagespeed.html#howtoinstall. So once ngx_pagespeed is integrated into Nginx, enabling or disable pagespeed globally is just

pscontrol on
pscontrol off

editing pagespeed.conf config file is just the below command which invokes nano linux text editor for editing pagespeed.conf

pscontrol edit

And for enabling PageSpeed Admin Console https://centminmod.com/nginx_ngx_pagespeed.html#pagespeedconsole

Example at https://community.centminmod.com/threads/admin-stats-console-revamp-in-ngx_pagespeed-1-9-32-1-beta.1669/

zeze

@eva2000 Thanks for the guide. I have successfully migrated 3 servers to CMM and enabled pagespeed.

Hxxx

@eva2000 is that Edge in the cellphone? The signal quality