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More for shits and giggles, I was looking at some bare minimum VPS services

http://www.lowendbox.com/

Now, I'm not expecting much here, but I was wondering you might be able to run on here. I have some really simple Android backend stuff that I was thinking of hosting on here. It'll get maybe a few requests and hour and I'm annoyed that GAE (free) always spins down my instance when it sits idle.
 
Quick looking I would say maybe one small website, or a moderate sized teamspeak server.

Should work fine for something small.
 
Very cool, I ended up getting a $7 a month service (http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/vpsnodebox-7-00month-1gb-kvm-vps-in-phoenix-az/)

which should actually be pretty decent. Amazing what you can get for a few bucks a month. I was looking at colocating my server that I have at home, but that was going to cost $100 a month.

4 CPU cores
1GB RAM
40 GB Disk Space
640GB Bandwidth
50Mbit Connection
1x IPv4 & 1x IPv6 Address
KVM/SolusVM
$7.00/Month, promo code
 
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Have a look at joesdatacenter, pretty good option for US$ 6 a month. As far as colocating goes, only makes sense if you have a beefy server, else you can get a low end dedicated box for less than US$ 25 these days.
 
Just be aware that some of the posted companies on lowendbox are not very reliable: billing, support, or vps node. Due diligence + research is a good idea. A good place to research would be www.webhostingtalk.com. Do a search on the forums for the company you are interested in. Read the reviews. Read company responses to forum posts. Then decide.
 
vsboxerboy said:
Very cool, I ended up getting a $7 a month service (http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/vpsnodebox-7-00month-1gb-kvm-vps-in-phoenix-az/)

which should actually be pretty decent. Amazing what you can get for a few bucks a month. I was looking at colocating my server that I have at home, but that was going to cost $100 a month.

4 CPU cores
1GB RAM
40 GB Disk Space
640GB Bandwidth
50Mbit Connection
1x IPv4 & 1x IPv6 Address
KVM/SolusVM
$7.00/Month, promo code
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Yeah they are a lot of fun. The only thing to keep in mind is you do not get those 4cores dedicated.
 
Yeah, the plan for now is to have something to play around with and then transition to something more reliable, powerful, etc. when it's worth the cost to do so. Nothing I'm doing here is particularly mission critical or time sensitive.
 
Wow wonder how they make money off that. That is incredibly cheap. Tempting to get one just as a backup DNS server as right now I have my primary and secondary on the same physical box which is kinda counter intuitive.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Wow wonder how they make money off that. That is incredibly cheap. Tempting to get one just as a backup DNS server as right now I have my primary and secondary on the same physical box which is kinda counter intuitive.
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I'd use cloudflare for DNS if you are looking for high availability.
 
I wonder how oversubscribed those CPUs are heh. Probably not the best choice for anything compute intensive.
 
Yancy78 said:
I;ve used Thrust in the past for my ScreenConnect install
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I used them for about a year. I disliked them a lot. Their service was cheap and OK most of the time. Pretty often I'd get extremely high interrupt traffic on the NIC, which made the server anything from slow to unresponsive. They also had a router that would fall over all the time in front of their LA cluster. I would give them very detailed reports about the issues and they would tell me "nope, no issues". They'd send back trace-routes over a VPN from their home base in the UK that didn't go over the same (saturated) routes as their VM traffic, and would hit a management interface that wasn't exhibiting the issues.

I talked to probably every tech in their company and they couldn't understand how their management interface wasn't the same as their VM interface. They also use the admin interface to determine system health on their website, so it's very common for it to show great uptimes when in reality their servers are down.

The final reason I dropped them though: their server lost a (single - their words) disk, which contained my VM. They take no backups (you're expected to use your own). They took 3 days to diagnose and fix the issue - so I couldn't even start to stand back up a server for 3 days. They lease space and use remote hands, which they pointed the finger at. They offered me no compensation besides 3 free days.

They claim lots of expertise, but in my experience they're second-rate admins. I'd be out of a job if my VM clusters at work experienced 1% of the issues I had with them.

I'd give them a big thumbs-down, considering how many alternatives there are.
 
I recently swapped to EC2 from Amazon - it's free for a year for a micro-instance and afterwards it will probably be 10 or so bucks a month.

I get...:

single core 2.4 GHz proc
600 MB of RAM
30 GB space
100 GB bandwidth

And these are things I configured on my own - I can go above dynamically - I'd just get charge a bit more.
 
Just got off customer support with them (vpsnodebox.com) and the guy was super helpful, and really nice. It's been a good customer service day for me - got newegg to honor my $1 for 8GB of RAM and then got this sorted.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Wow wonder how they make money off that. That is incredibly cheap. Tempting to get one just as a backup DNS server as right now I have my primary and secondary on the same physical box which is kinda counter intuitive.
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8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

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