optimize CPanel/WHM for VPS?

[jamesbond]

I plan to put around 20 low traffic sites on a VPS. Some use mysql. The sites will not consume a lot of memory. Is 256MB RAM generally enough with CPanel/WHM installed?

Also I was thinking I could disable named (don't need an authorative nameserver) and mailman to free up some more memory. Any other things I can do to optimize CPanel/WHM on a VPS?

[Spiral]

Originally Posted by jamesbond

I plan to put around 20 low traffic sites on a VPS. Some use mysql. The sites will not consume a lot of memory. Is 256MB RAM generally enough with CPanel/WHM installed?

Also I was thinking I could disable named (don't need an authorative nameserver) and mailman to free up some more memory. Any other things I can do to optimize CPanel/WHM on a VPS?

I would not go with less than 512k minimum for Cpanel / WHM ....

Disabling named is extremely unwise as that is also used for
a lot of internal processes as well as account resolutioin.

The various chat servers, mailman, etc should be fine to deactivate
and won't hurt anything if you turn those off.

[jamesbond]

Is CPanel/WHM really that much of a resource hog? What exactly are the processes taking up the resources? From what I read DirectAdmin seems to do ok with 256MB.

Originally Posted by Spiral

Disabling named is extremely unwise as that is also used for
a lot of internal processes as well as account resolutioin.

That I understand
I will ofcourse put 2 authoritive nameservers in my /etc/resolv.conf (the vps provider allows you to use their nameservers).