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=Install a lightweight web server, software stack, on a lightweight VPS= 

To test the limits of a WordPress installation over a light resources hardware I tried a common LAMP installation (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) over Ubuntu 10.04 on a VPS that is [http://www.spotvps.com/#features 128mb RAM, 256mb Burstable RAM, 1 CPU core, 10GB Disk Space, and 500GB on Bandwith].

It was not pretty. Common administration use of WordPress quickly reached the 128mb RAM limit, showing that the configuration above was not an option. [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/dreamhost-memory-usage-on-vps Others have bumped into the same problem].

Fortunately, I found that with replacements such as Debian instead of Ubuntu or Nginx instead of Apache, WordPress can actually work on a lightweight VPS. Even more, there is a script that will take care of installing all that is required. You can see some comparisons of performance and the original post of the script [http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/wordpress-cheap-vps-lowendscript/ here]. However, the scrip I ended using was an updated version from the [https://github.com/sk33lz/lowendscript GitHub repository] of the original author.

For the Linux OS I used Debian 6.0 32 bit. The script can install too WordPress, Drupal 6,7 and Magento. 

After using this script, the only thing I had to do extra for WordPress to work as usual, was to give ownership of the folders ''wp-content'', ''wp-admin'', ''wp-includes'' to the web server user.

The script takes charge of all the installation steps. If you feel inclined to look at some of the steps of the installation entails (for a WordPress with nginx on Unbuntu 12.04 example) check [https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-wordpress-with-nginx-on-ubuntu-12-04 this].