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Old 29th July 2012
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Originally Posted by barti View Post
Static content apache server
OK.
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www.rootbsd.com
vps package.

Can you recommend good vps hosting?
To the best of my knowledge, VPS offerings have never been discussed here. I don't have any experience myself. However, this has been discussed on misc@ before. See http://marc.info/?t=130745549700006&r=1&w=2 for one example. RootBSD is mentioned in that particular discussion thread. You may find other discussions, just by searching.
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for a moderate vps, how many people can surf the site together?
You will have to ask this of your prospective vendors. Only they know the underlying hardware platforms and hypervisor OS and the performance of the guest platforms.
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How can I check it with ab ?
ab(1) is not part of the built-in Apache1.3. It is included as a component of the Apache2 package/port, apache-httpd. Should you choose apache-httpd, please note its install message, which I have reproduced here:
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Install notice:
This is the official httpd distributed by the Apache Server Project,
provided as a port for those who, for various reasons, need to run
version 2. 

OpenBSD provides a custom Apache server, httpd(8), in the base system
which has been audited for security and may run in a chroot(2)
environment.  Users are STRONGLY encouraged to use the system httpd
rather than this port.
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How much RAM will I need?
That will depend upon your specific webserving requirements, which have not been described in sufficient detail.
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What PF rules is it important to use?
You will want to permit valid use of your web services, and prevent misuse or denial-of-service to them. See the "Stateful Processing" section of the PF User's Guide for tools to manage the latter, such as "overload" and "flush". In similar fashion, you will want to ensure you can manage your virtual server, so you will need to permit your own SSH access, and if you want your sshd service open to the Internet at large, you will want stateful processing to prevent misuse or bulk breakin attempts.

Any specific recommendations will require further information on your specific needs.

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Originally Posted by ocicat View Post
Look at nginx(8).
Barti, Ocicat wanted to point out to you that as of OpenBSD 5.1, nginx has been added to the base OS.
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You have not disclosed any information about what will be running on the server...
Well, we have some information, but only a little. We do know that it is intended to serve static web pages, but that is all. We don't know if those are from flat files or from a back end datatabase, nor do we know how many virtual webservers will be deployed. We also don't know anything about the underlying environment barti's service provider(s) deploy, or their impact on guest OSes.
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