All of my domains have been hosted with Media Temple since November, 2008. The first server was a standard VPS with 1 GB of RAM. The web server was Apache – I didn't have a choice. In July of 2010, I switched to a "developer" VPS server with 2 GB of RAM – I had choices and I setup NginX as a reverse proxy in front of Apache. In May of 2011, while upgrading the operating system, I setup NginX by itself.
VPS hosting is the next best thing to using a dedicated server and not nearly as expensive. Here is a batch of articles I wrote, detailing how I installed NginX and other software servers on my latest VPS – the (ve) server:
- Moving to a Server with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
- Installing and Configuring nginx on Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit LTS
- Installing and Configuring PHP and PHP-FPM on Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit LTS
- Installing and Configuring MySQL on Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit LTS
- Installing and Configuring Postfix and Courier on Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit LTS
- Installing and Configuring Webmin on Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit LTS
- Setting up an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server – Overview and Wrap-Up