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I just denied your statement, no insults nothing.
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"Bullshit" could easily be interpreted as insulting.
It would have been more constructive to say that only the 128MB OVZ plans are offered anymore.
Maybe that was it. I never clicked on the 128 since that is nowhere near enough for anything I do.
I am only responsible, for what I am saying, not how people interpret my words.
Lets take it down a notch a bit.
Anyway, true, 128MB's are in stock, but that's it. We don't offer any other OVZ plans.
Francisco
Exactly: that is precisely what I called you on.
As a running joke with Fran, the more people migrate away from OpenVZ, the less things he needs to fix and he'll deliver even better service without OpenVZ being in the picture.
When do their slices (like in NY) usually come instock? I might have to try them out sometime.
As stated previously... restocks usually happen on the 1st, and 10th of each month..due to cancellations/etc
Thanks, wasn't thinking and thought that was just for the Luxembourg location :-).
The cheapest I know so far is ClouDNS: https://asia.cloudns.net/geodns/
Why do you think so? For example, for a reverse proxy caching system in three different locations, I can either: set the servers in anycast (e.g. the 3 BuyVM locations in anycast) or use Geo-DNS to point to different servers in different locations from different providers (which I think is preferable, "HA" wise, but a little more expensive). But which of these 2 setup will be more effective?
GeoDNS or Latency based DNS is going to be more reliable than anycast. Reliable in a sense that it will route visitors to the correct destination more consistently.
With anycast, things tend to be... complicated. Unless properly tuned, the routing can be really weird, like traffic from 80% of providers goes correctly and the other 20% goes to the wrong node.
Can't comment on the state of BuyVM's anycast though, never used it.
So in a sense, it's a matter of having a correctly/properly set up anycast if you want the LET approach... As I mentioned, I personally prefer the GeoDNS route, but it gets real expensive as you add more zones!
Thanks for the insight!
Assuming you have 3 edge locations in total respectively one in North America, Europe and Asia you pay about $2 per month at Amazon. Can't get any cheaper than this and you are free to chose your individual VPS providers. It starts to get "expensive" once you want DNS failover but if your project is important enough to warrant a personal CDN those are peanuts.
Do you use a Canadian company or a Wyoming one? I'd suggest not mixing US based operations with this.
Pretty sure it's only Canadian, think Fran mentioned the Wyoming whois info is old.
Wouldnt be too hard!
@Harambe
It's located in beautiful British Columbia, it seems. This is the WHOIS data from BuyShared.
For some reason, Frantech is clasified as an "individual entity" rather than a company, so the main Frantech WHOIS is unavailable.
For what it's worth..
https://buyvmstock.com
They have some mail notifier, to let you be aware as soon as one of your preference is available. I recall some dude here on LET built it, but I can't recall who that was off the top of the head ¯_(ツ)_/¯
It was @agia.
Stock comes up on the 1st and the 10th. It's rare that LU stock lasts past those days, so if you're wanting something either touch base with me and I'll try to ear mark you something, or keep an eye out
When you say stock comes up on the 1st and the 10th, what timezone are we in? :-)
Hello,
PST, so GMT -7 :P
Francisco
Thanks for the reply, will stop hitting F5 until the (BST) morning then
Thanks for quoting
during the past couple of months I have seen more and more people getting their VMs thanks to that buyvmstock.com (Buyvm gets out of stock really fast) ... It was nice to see the response of the community 
I should start adding the new features that I planned as soon as I have a little more time!
Feel free to subscribe (it is for free) whenever you get tired
Phew, got one! :-)
Does BuyVM also have floating IPs? Like what Digital Ocean has where it fails over to another server within the same datacenter? It was pointed out to me by the resident BuyVM guy that Anycast is not good enough because it only fails over if the datacenter (so at the core router?) has connectivity issues. Not if the server stops responding. So I would also need floating IP. I would also need some way of having it automatically fail over.
This is a high availability application that can never go down (except maybe for a couple minutes once in a blue moon during a failover) so I have to do everything I can to avoid that. I cannot do any of the HA stuff with DNS. It has to be done at network layer 3 with IPs.
I may do it with Amazon AWS Elastic IP with two availability zones but then I have to start messing around with NAT which I would like to avoid for various reasons. I would also need to use at least 2 regions which will still require at least 2 IP's. So still not quite as good as an Anycast solution.
Yep you can float ips without any sort of API.
People do node HA with keepalived and such.
Francisco
@Francisco
The looking glass script in Luxembourg currently isn't able to execute any network test.