SniperAngel

VPS, or Virtual Private Server is one of pRO Baldur Forums latest upgrades. And no, this is not a Ragnarok Online Private Server.

pRO Baldur Forums is currently one of the most visited sites related to Philippine Ragnarok Online. More visits mean more traffic, and to accomodate more visits actions should be taken to avoid server crashes or irregularities. This is what Salleh, the Forum Root Admin prioritized.

To understand what a Virtual Private Server is, as discussed in Webhostingtalk.com, having a VPS can be compared to a block of apartments. The block has one roof, but under that roof there are multiple apartments. Each apartment has its own kitchen, living room, etc, so it can operate individually. Everyone goes in and out through the same door of the building though (VPS: traffic all goes through one network port).

Here is a brief list of the features of Virtual Private Server implemented in pRO Baldur as provided by Salleh:

• Virtual Private Server with 128MB guaranteed memory and 100MHz guaranteed CPU
• 5GB diskspace and 100GB bandwidth
• Ubuntu 6.10
• MYSQL (5.0.24a-Debian_9ubuntu2-log)
• Apache version 2.0.55
• PHP Version 5.1.6 (apache2handler)
• Zend Engine v2.1.0 with eAccelerator v0.9.5

The server is now under strict monitoring and stress test to assess the effectiveness of this upgrade. And up to now the forum is still running smoothly, which proves the VPS’ productivity.