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Posted 14 May 2012 - 12:07 PM (#1)

Looking for a VPS

Over the past few months, there have been about 40 random short outages on my VPS on x10vps where it loses all network connectivity. As one of the main uses of my VPS is as a bouncer, it is starting to piss me off.

So I'm moving!

Stuff I want:

Connection: Very fast and very reliable
CPU: Doesn't really matter, I don't use much at all
Memory: I currently use about 500MB
Bandwidth: I only use a few GB a month
Disk usage: I don't, really

Any suggestions?

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 12:17 PM (#2)

EC2?

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 12:53 PM (#3)

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 12:55 PM (#4)

Cyril, on 14 May 2012 - 12:17 PM, said:

EC2?

How much would that actually cost me, though? I don't like how their pricing works.

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 01:25 PM (#5)

callumacrae, on 14 May 2012 - 12:55 PM, said:

How much would that actually cost me, though? I don't like how their pricing works.

A micro instance is free for a year and it's pretty nifty.

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 01:38 PM (#6)

What node are you on? Tis weird to have network outages. I've had none on my node (I think I'm isolated on my own node though..)

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 01:44 PM (#7)

Hetzner or OVH (I've heard their VPSes are decent but thinking back to my time at BB, they aren't exactly reliable so I wouldn't run something mission critical there). Go for Hetzner.

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 01:52 PM (#8)

NeilHanlon, on 14 May 2012 - 01:38 PM, said:

What node are you on? Tis weird to have network outages. I've had none on my node (I think I'm isolated on my own node though..)

X21, but they keep moving me; I used to be on X4 which was great. Could the fact that they're happening more and more be because I'm one of the old P plans?

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 02:26 PM (#9)

Might be, but I doubt it, I'm on x13, and I think that I'm the only one with my plan. lol. Ask Corey on Jabber.

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 02:28 PM (#10)

Linode. I've had 100% uptime in the past year I've been with them.

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 02:45 PM (#11)

AwesomezGuy, on 14 May 2012 - 02:28 PM, said:

Linode. I've had 100% uptime in the past year I've been with them.

This either. Linode's awesome for mission critical operations.

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 02:57 PM (#12)

AwesomezGuy, on 14 May 2012 - 02:28 PM, said:

Linode. I've had 100% uptime in the past year I've been with them.

[callum@vps log]$ ack 'Quits: AwesomezGuy \(~Awesomez@isuperepo\.com\) \(Ping timeout:' \#webdevrefinery_*
#webdevrefinery_20120111.log
49:[06:40:16] *** Quits: AwesomezGuy (~Awesomez@isuperepo.com) (Ping timeout: 240 seconds)

#webdevrefinery_20120414.log
1:[00:15:29] *** Quits: AwesomezGuy (~Awesomez@isuperepo.com) (Ping timeout: 252 seconds)

#webdevrefinery_20120510.log
1:[00:28:04] *** Quits: AwesomezGuy (~Awesomez@isuperepo.com) (Ping timeout: 245 seconds)

Once every couple months isn't great, but it isn't bad, either. Were they your fault or Linodes?

NeilHanlon, on 14 May 2012 - 02:26 PM, said:

Ask Corey on Jabber.

Did that, I'm going to give x10vps another chance (but I'm going to give EC2 a try anyway) :-)

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 04:52 PM (#13)

Linode is great, probably the best VPS provider. Very reliable and fast.

I've had a good experience with BuyVM.net (more reliable than YardVPS, probably about as good as PhotonVPS), they only have stock available every so often though, and sell out fast. You need to get in quick. They have a mailing list and Twitter where they announce new stock.

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Posted 16 May 2012 - 11:42 AM (#14)

Do you need managed or not? If you don't need managed, I've been using http://immediatevps.com for a while now with no issues at all.

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Posted 16 May 2012 - 01:18 PM (#15)

euantor, on 16 May 2012 - 11:42 AM, said:

Do you need managed or not? If you don't need managed, I've been using http://immediatevps.com for a while now with no issues at all.

Ew OpenVZ.

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Posted 16 May 2012 - 03:16 PM (#16)

@fFike: Thanks for the helpful and constructive advice.

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Posted 16 May 2012 - 03:39 PM (#17)

callumacrae, on 16 May 2012 - 03:16 PM, said:

@fFike: Thanks for the helpful and constructive advice.

Fine, from now on I'll just cease posting on your threads. Sorry!

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Posted 16 May 2012 - 05:07 PM (#18)

OpenVZ isn't too bad - It's more efficient than Xen due to lower overheads, so OpenVZ virtual servers run a bit faster than their Xen counterparts. You can oversell with OpenVZ, though.

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Daniel15 is ruining my life D:

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Posted 17 May 2012 - 01:45 AM (#19)

Daniel15, on 16 May 2012 - 05:07 PM, said:

OpenVZ isn't too bad - It's more efficient than Xen due to lower overheads, so OpenVZ virtual servers run a bit faster than their Xen counterparts. You can oversell with OpenVZ, though.

You can't oversell with Xen? Hmm...well that's handy to know! I guess I'll be going with Xen from now on if I'm trying out a new company or something.

euantor, on 16 May 2012 - 11:42 AM, said:

Do you need managed or not? If you don't need managed, I've been using http://immediatevps.com for a while now with no issues at all.

$10 a month for 512MB?!?! Wow that's not bad at all! I hope they don't oversell

might e worth trying out!

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Posted 17 May 2012 - 03:23 AM (#20)

You can oversell with newer Xen versions, but it's a lot less common than overselling OpenVZ, Linux-vserver or LXC.

You can't oversell Xen HVM as it's essentially a virtual server like you'd create with VMware or VirtualBox. Xen HVM actually lets you have a Windows VPS on a Linux host. It's a lot slower because of this, though (it emulates hardware). OpenVZ is very lightweight and shares the same Linux kernel with all the VPSes

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Kyek, on 16 November 2011 - 11:14 AM, said:

Daniel15 is ruining my life D:

markbrown4, on 12 October 2012 - 03:02 AM, said:

When i grow up I want to be a Daniel15.