halBox

Bash script with a bit of unicornian magic dust to set up and tweak your Debian/Ubuntu server.

Nota bene: If your antivirus complains that this package is infected, dont't worry: it's just the EICAR test file to assess ClamAV.

Setup

As root, copy+paste the following on your command-line:

cd ~ && wget -q https://github.com/alixaxel/halBox/archive/master.tar.gz -O ~/halBox.tar.gz && tar -xzvf ~/halBox.tar.gz && chmod +x ~/halBox-master/halBox.sh && sudo ~/halBox-master/halBox.sh

A default install should take less than 5 minutes to complete.

Memory Usage

halBox is VPS-oriented, it has been crafted to consume as little memory as possible.

Here's what a default install looks like after a fresh reboot (under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS minimal):

# ps_mem
 Private  +   Shared  =  RAM used       Program

100.0 KiB +  40.5 KiB = 140.5 KiB       sleep
 80.0 KiB +  85.0 KiB = 165.0 KiB       dash
104.0 KiB +  83.0 KiB = 187.0 KiB       ondemand
128.0 KiB +  71.0 KiB = 199.0 KiB       syslogd
304.0 KiB +  75.5 KiB = 379.5 KiB       cron
304.0 KiB + 105.0 KiB = 409.0 KiB       xinetd
476.0 KiB +  89.0 KiB = 565.0 KiB       exim4
472.0 KiB + 116.5 KiB = 588.5 KiB       dropbear
748.0 KiB + 119.5 KiB = 867.5 KiB       init
664.0 KiB + 598.5 KiB =   1.2 MiB       nginx (3)
784.0 KiB +   3.3 MiB =   4.1 MiB       php5-fpm (3)
  7.1 MiB + 160.0 KiB =   7.2 MiB       mysqld
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                         16.0 MiB
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Of course, some features and configurations had to be sacrificed, most notably:

InnoDB engine is disabled
MyISAM key_buffer_size directive is set to 8MB
non-PDO database drivers are disabled by default (this includes mysql and mysqli)

As of version 0.26.0, halBox comes with two scripts for nginx: n1ensite / n1dissite that mimic a2ensite / a2dissite.