Sadly, https://www.vultr.com does not work with AstLinux since they require 
virtio-blk disk driver support, while AstLinux uses virtio-scsi drivers.

Lonnie



> On Aug 22, 2018, at 2:16 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> For fun, I am testing Vultr, the web interface is nice and adding our VM ISO 
> is very simple.
> 
> But, I can't get the base storage to mount, they say they use SCSI_VIRTIO, 
> which we support.
> 
> I'll report back when I learn more.
> 
> Lonnie
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Aug 22, 2018, at 9:39 AM, Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Christopher, good points ... thanks for sharing your experience.
>> 
>> Michael, I ran across a Linode-like provider "Vultr", with a Sydney 
>> location.  Until today I have never heard of them (just my ignorance I 
>> suspect).
>> 
>> https://www.vultr.com/pricing/
>> 
>> Vultr looks like it should work with an AstLinux ISO, but don't know for 
>> sure until someone tries.
>> https://www.vultr.com/features/uploadiso/
>> 
>> Lonnie
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Aug 22, 2018, at 7:33 AM, The Cadillac Kid via Astlinux-users 
>>> <astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> the big issue i have with AWS is no ability t ogain console access when 
>>> needed to get things working right. I have quite a few servers running on 
>>> AWS, however my Asterisk servers are not among them..  AWS doesnt do real 
>>> well at limiting someones Rogue instance and i had issues with latencies 
>>> and jitter when running a decent size system on AWS..  I havent attempted 
>>> astlinux specifically but we ended up building out our own metal for our 
>>> cloud solutions and havent had any issues since..
>>> -Christopher
>>> On Wednesday, August 22, 2018, 3:25:22 AM EDT, David Kerr <da...@kerr.net> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I have tried and failed with AWS and Google.  The issue appears to be a 
>>> requirement for GRUB bootloader.
>>> 
>>> David 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 10:54 PM, Michael Knill 
>>> <michael.kn...@ipcsolutions.com.au> wrote:
>>> Hi Lonnie
>>> 
>>> Not too good Im afraid. AWS is certainly the go for me:
>>> 
>>> PING speedtest.tokyo2.linode.com (139.162.65.37): 56 data bytes
>>> 
>>> --- speedtest.tokyo2.linode.com ping statistics ---
>>> 10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
>>> round-trip min/avg/max = 105.966/106.090/106.254 ms
>>> PING speedtest.singapore.linode.com (139.162.23.4): 56 data bytes
>>> 
>>> --- speedtest.singapore.linode.com ping statistics ---
>>> 10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
>>> round-trip min/avg/max = 97.833/97.970/98.255 ms
>>> 
>>> PING dynamodb.ap-southeast-2. amazonaws.com (52.94.13.132): 56 data bytes
>>> 
>>> --- dynamodb.ap-southeast-2. amazonaws.com ping statistics ---
>>> 10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
>>> round-trip min/avg/max = 7.004/7.125/7.217 ms
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> Michael Knill
>>> 
>>> On 22/8/18, 12:24 pm, "Lonnie Abelbeck" <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>   Hi Michael,
>>> 
>>>   No I haven't, but it does look like you can import VMware images.
>>> 
>>>   I really like Linode for AstLinux in the cloud, but sadly there is no 
>>> Linode locations in Australia (yet).
>>> 
>>>   If you wouldn't mind, hows does the latency compare for you:
>>> 
>>>   Linode - Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
>>>   ping -q -c10 speedtest.tokyo2.linode.com
>>> 
>>>   Linode - Asia Pacific (Singapore)
>>>   ping -q -c10 speedtest.singapore.linode.com
>>> 
>>>   AWS - Asia Pacific (Sydney)
>>>   ping -q -c10 dynamodb.ap-southeast-2. amazonaws.com
>>> 
>>> 
>>>   Lonnie
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Aug 21, 2018, at 5:37 PM, Michael Knill <michael.knill@ipcsolutions. 
>>>> com.au> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Wow it looks hard to install Astlinux in EC2. You have to build it locally 
>>>> and import.
>>>> Has anyone done this?
>>>> 
>>>> Regards
>>>> Michael Knill
>>> 
> 
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