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What's your ideal VPS, what kind of offers would you like to see here on LET?
Hello everyone, I hope you're doing great.
It's hard for us providers to guess what kind of offers you want.
After thinking about what my next offer should be I thought it might be best to ask you, the LET community.
I'm open to suggestions and I will pick a few suggestions on price, and specs and try to include them in my next offering.
It's a great thread for many other providers too that can use this information to make offerings that best match what you want.
Please try to post serious suggestions(not 10000GB ssd for 1USD/yr) on what your dream configuration is
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10000GB ssd for 1USD/yr
Specs:
Features:
Floating IPs: Can assign IPs to any VPS in the same data center. eg if a user gets 3 VPSes in the same location, they'll have 3 IPs in their account and can assign them to any of the VPSes. Useful for hot failovers and migrations to a new OS version (clone the old VPS to a new one, do the upgrade on the new one, then swap the IPs once everything has been tested)
Ability to mount ISO and change reverse DNS in the control panel
The only host I've seen come close, particularly with the more advanced features like floating IPs is BinaryLane. Would be nice to have a similarly sophisticated VPS provider outside of Australia
This was the last crazy deal from Hosthatch from 2020 BF. Something along those lines
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/168301/black-friday-2020-nvme-and-storage-deals-deploy-worldwide/p1
2 CPU core (50% dedicated, burstable up to 200%)
8 GB RAM
40 GB RAID-10 NVMe
$30 per year
nvme SSD raid 10
ddr4 ECC
1 vcore per 1gb ram
5/10gbps
You can take a look on recent GreenCloud and Racknerd's Ryzen deals
• good cpu performance, whether that means ryzen or just more E5 cores
• monthly billing from less established providers
• ability to upgrade storage before purchasing (at a fair price) or block storage options
• near perfect uptime and good network stability and performance (although network speed is not important, 100mbps is good for me. just needs to be stable)
• good ddos protection
• good support
• good but sustainable pricing
Why not. So something along these lines?
1 CPU
30 GB SSD Pure Storage
1 GB RAM
1000 GB Monthly Transfer
1Gbps Network Port
1 Dedicated IPv4 Address
1 Dedicated IPv6 Address
KVM / Virtualizor Control Panel
Ability to set reverse DNS
ONLY $12.25/YEAR!
Differences:Cheaper, less bandwidth (who uses 3TB/month anyway), includes a IPv6, has the ability to set reverse DNS and pure ssd no ssd cache. If you feel like something needs to be changed please post a modified specs/price
Let's create the ideal VPS configuration together guys!
The top thing is to be sustainable and your company must look legit.
Then this plan should be attractive here: 512MB/1GB KVM, 10GB SSD, dedicated IPv4 and /64 IPv6 subnet with proper rdns support, with a reasonable annually pricing.
Oh, this reminds me of some points I forgot to mention:
Features:
Which CPU? How many years old is it?
it's quite old. I got two of these. With tuned it usually runs at about 2.3 GHz. I believe RackNerd has similar cpus
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/75267/intel-xeon-processor-e5-2640-v2-20m-cache-2-00-ghz.html
These are very old
Not sure about other people but I'd be happy to pay more to get a modern CPU rather than a second-hand 8-year-old processor. A lot has changed in the past 8 years with regards to processors in terms of features and performance. The speed difference between DDR3-1600 and DDR4-4000 is very noticeable 
My needs are minimum 512 mb, 30 GB disk (any kind), unmettered trafic but if not, 1 tb/month minimum.
Any 7-5 yo CPU should do as long as it is not abused (1 shared core).
Ideal plan would be 1 GB RAM and a slightly better CPU.
Price 12/year or less if in a location where I don't already have (i have many). I could fork some more for exotic places.
Custom ISOs without a support ticket
If I can mount my own OpenBSD or FreeDOS or Hannah Montana Linux ISO without opening a ticket, that goes a long way toward keeping this tinkerer happy.
I'm not sure why it's not more common, maybe it's abused by cryptominers or script kiddies or people wanting "free extra storage"? Not sure
Why not https://www.virtualizor.com/docs/enduser/end-user-iso/
Less work for me, and easier for you.
i dont see why cryptominers would need an ISO. Or script kiddies. As for the free extra storage, I doubt you would have unlimited space anywhere.
For example we offer true cloud with the ability to download any iso (over http/ftp as the certificates are usually rejected by cloudstack) but the storage taken is billed for personal ones (of course, on demand, we can add to our library, but there must be more than 1-2 people asking for some exotic flavour and that is free). It also allows for upgrade/downgrade cpu/ram but they are in locked steps, not arbitrary numbers.
I think it's better to just have the ISO auto delete after 24 hours. What do you guys think?
And the traffic to download counted :P
That sounds fine to me from a hobbyist customer's POV. I'm either quickly trying something out or installing it, but either way don't really need the ISO mounted for more than a couple of hours.
This is why I like Openvz7 so much. You can upgrade/downgrade your storage, ram, anything without rebooting, resizing or any hassle. For KVM upgrading should work fine, but I don't know about downgrading disk
Another feature that might be useful. Snapshots. What do you guys think about this? I don't mind including one snapshot.
Something like
1 Core vps
5 TB bandwidth per month (This could be altered if not 5, minimum 2 TB will be great)
1 TB harddisk
512 MB RAM (1 GB would be much better)
price 50 euros per 3 year or 17 euros per one year.
Above specs were provided by hostsolution.ro in special deal of blackfriday.
How bout don't follow in hostsolutions footsteps...
You could get from HostHatch BF more peeformance and very stable network for less than $40 per year
AMD Ryzen is much more powerful and smoother than E5
GPU passthrough for cheap
Much better to get time4vps then, it's around 34-35 dollars for one year and I am having vps with them since past 4-5 years no problems at all, except once there was data loss but that's acceptable, they already have notice to keep backups as they won't be doing one at such low specs vps.
Even if they do, if your data matter, you have your own.
sorry, but how on earth does openvz work just the same if you are using 30gb of your disk and you ask to downgrade it to 20? just randomly pick files to delete?
The major downside of OpenVZ7 is its venet network interface, which is not an Ethernet interface and thus not fully compatible with IPv6.
If you can provide veth network interface, it'll work a lot better.
However, I haven't seen anyone use veth.
Upgrading disk still requires resizing the filesystem on the virtual disk.
This could be automated in most cases, and almost never result in data loss.
Expanding the filesystem usually requires a reboot, unless the guest VM uses XFS or similar.
Downgrading could be possible, but only after the filesystem is resized, leaving the last x GB of the virtual disk unpartitioned.
However, shrinking a filesystem is more risky that expanding it.
OpenVZ and other container technology do not give each VM a separate filesystem.
It's just a folder on the host machine.
This is what allows instant downgrading without rebooting.
If you have more than 20GB of files, you can't downgrade to 20GB.
Downgrading would fail in this case.
128GB RAM Ryzen for $7/m