Lee's reply about the firewall : I have a couple environments that will support debian with IP tables but there is a performance overhead associated with it so depending on how you intend to use the system that's something to keep in mind. Phil
Le Monday 09 October 2006 18:13, Philippe Valembois - Phil a écrit : > I mailed Lee from Leeware : > > My mail : > > Hi, > I am part of the aMSN project and we are actually seeking for a hosting > servie... > We would be interested to rent a VPS300 server but before, we have some > questions about how it works... > First, it's not clear if we can reboot remotely our server if it hanged.... > Have we to send you an email to let you reboot the server or can we do that > remotely through a management console ? > Second, I saw on webhostingtalk.com that you are alone in your company... > So if you have any trouble who will do the support ? Especially if we need > to reboot our server because it hanged.... > Thanks in advance for your replies... > Philippe Valembois > > > His mail : > > #1. Your server will appear to you like a dedicated server. Therefore, > you will not be able to control it remotely. > > #2. If you are thinking about debian then you should be aware that our > images do not support IPTABLES if you need it you should choose SUSE10 > under XEN. I do fully support debian on other virtualization technologies. > However. those other technologies while flexible will cost you in terms of > performance. If you need near realtime performance then XEN is the way to > go. > > #3. As stated in my TOS/AUP each customer is promised a response within 24 > hours. However, I monitor this email account actively up to 16 hours a > day. Which means that the longest you will wait for a response is usually > 15 minutes - 6 hours. I have to sleep sometimes. I just happend to be up > now because I had a lot of orders to complete. > > Furthermore, I provide unmanaged services. I have been fortunate enough to > build a business that not only stable but where people don't bother much > with mundane requests. > > I get a few reboot requests per month but that's usually, from > a) newbies that lock themselves out or try to repartition there systems > (The remedy in the later case being a full reinstall. > > b) Peoples who servers run out of resources and stop responding due to > buggy software. > > However, those are rare. The rest of the support issues are related to > RDNS or for information on how to do stuff. But again rare. > > Hope this helps and good luck. > > Phil > P.S. I mailed him about the firewall thing as I don't think it is clear... > So I will post here his reply as soon he replies > PPS I didn't sent this mail as soon as I received him... > I sent my mail Sun, 8 Oct 2006 09:49:21 UTC > I received his reply Sun, 8 Oct 2006 10:25:06 UTC -> It was 5:00 when he > sent the mail... > > Le Monday 09 October 2006 08:51, Youness Alaoui a écrit : > > Just reminding everyone that if noone disagrees or proposes something > > else, we will sign up with Webintelects... > > YOU HAVE ONLY 24 HOURS LEFT TO ANSWER... > > > > KaKaRoTo > > > > On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 12:22:21AM +0200, Philippe Valembois - Phil wrote: > > > Well, > > > after a great chat with Youness we conclude that Webintellecs complies > > > perfectly with our requirements so after the examination of money we > > > have received for 4 days we think we can afford renting a VPS at > > > Webintellecs for 40$/mo > > > We think to buy a domain name like amsn.* to not rely on SF for > > > redirection... 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