UPDATE: Thanks to Ryan, Ant and Fern for the tips. With that in mind I found an online Slicehost tutorial that contained the steps and explained how to install ruby via apt-get, then get the latest rubygems, install that manually, ran gem to update itself, then run gem to install rails – as suggested. The steps I took from that page:
UPDATE: I recently used this MySQL tuner script, I basically went with what it told me, but I’m using a higher query_cache_size than it recommends, basically because I don’t see anything online saying it will hurt things. So I’m now using the following values on my server:
[mysqld] user=mysql bind-address=127.0.0.1 datadir=/var/lib/mysql pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid socket=/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock port=3306 tmpdir=/tmp language=/usr/share/mysql/english skip-external-locking query_cache_limit=64M query_cache_size=32M query_cache_type=1 max_connections=15 max_user_connections=300 interactive_timeout=100 wait_timeout=100 connect_timeout=10 thread_stack=128K thread_cache_size=128 myisam-recover=BACKUP key_buffer=64M join_buffer=1M max_allowed_packet=32M table_cache=512M sort_buffer_size=1M read_buffer_size=1M read_rnd_buffer_size=768K max_connect_errors=10 thread_concurrency=4 myisam_sort_buffer_size=32M skip-locking skip-bdb expire_logs_days=10 max_binlog_size=100M server-id=1 [mysql.server] user=mysql basedir=/usr [safe_mysqld] bind-address=127.0.0.1 err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid open_files_limit=8192 SAFE_MYSQLD_OPTIONS=”–defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf –log-slow-queries=/var/log/slow-queries.log” [mysql] [isamchk] key_buffer=64M sort_buffer=64M read_buffer=16M write_buffer=16M [myisamchk] key_buffer=64M sort_buffer=64M read_buffer=16M write_buffer=16M [mysqlhotcopy] interactive-timeout max_heap_table_size = 64 M tmp_table_size = 64 M !includedir /etc/mysql/conf.d/
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