On Dec 2, 2007 8:46 AM, Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 21, 2007 2:03 PM, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Todd Walton wrote: > > > http://www.vr.org/ > > http://serverpronto.com/detail-starter.php
I just recently leased a VPS from linode.com. They're great. http://linode.com/products/linodes.cfm > 1) Who cares about server ratio? I know that they do not oversell; they have a certain number of each of their plans available at each of their three datacenters, and I actually had to wait (just a week or so) before they had the plan I want available in their west coast datacenter (which is in Fremont, CA). > 2) Bandwidth overage: 30c/GB/m vr.org, 85c/GB/m serverpronto.com. Linode is 25c/GiB/mo. > 3) Setup fee: $5 vr.org, $69 serverpronto.com. Linode: none! > 4) Support. vr.org says "yes we have an email help desk". > serverpronto.com says "yeah we have one and you get two tickets a > month, extra cost $15 a piece". Linode has free support, which is excellent. It also provides a Web forum and an IRC channel for community support. > I have a general question about virtual servers. Why couldn't > somebody install a very very basic Linux (Damn Bare Linux?) and then > let the customer pick a distro and install it? These places list what > distros they offer. I'm just wondering what the technical > considerations are that they have to offer the distro themselves. Linode does have a wide range of distros available: **Current Distros Arch Linux 2007.08 436 MiB Centos 5.0 594 MiB Debian 4.0 168 MiB Fedora Core 8 740 MiB Gentoo 2007.0 1800 MiB OpenSUSE 10.3 605 MiB Slackware 12.0 315 MiB Ubuntu 7.10 237 MiB **Older Distros CentOS 4.0 (RHEL) 800 MiB Fedora Core 6 875 MiB Gentoo 2006.1 1600 MiB Mandrake 9.1 (Small) 775 MiB Slackware 10 (small) 230 MiB Ubuntu 6.06 250 MiB Ubuntu 7.04 252 MiB They have their own host OS, and these are the distributions for which they have created and tested a kernel that is optimized to run as VM on their hosts. The great thing about Linode is that they provide X amount of storage space, but then they have their own Web administration interface (very robust) that lets you create and resize your own disk images, including choosing which /dev/ points at which to place the images before you boot your machine. You might even be able to "burn" an .iso to one of these images and then use it to install whatever distro you want, but I haven't tried it because my preferred OS was on their list. Unfortunately they've got their "standard" image and you don't get to go through the installation process, but it's easy enough to add the packages you want through standard means. You're even granted an account on the host itself to which you can SSH and then get an actual TTY at your box (if you've accidentally firewalled yourself out or something). Also, their bandwidth capacity is great. Just yesterday I torrented the Fedora 8 LiveCD (700MB) in about 6 minutes, topping out at about 2500KB/s throughput. Of course I then had to wait an hour and a half at my home's max downlink speed to get the .iso on my local machine, but I was able to seed the torrent during that transfer. It was also very simple to put my domain name on my Linode, and even to change the reverse DNS for my IP to reflect my doman instead of Linode's. Sorry if I sound like a gushy fanboy, but I've *really* enjoyed their service so far. Definitely take a look! -- Brad Beyenhof http://augmentedfourth.com Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right. ~ Igor Stravinsky -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
