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Too many choices - first VPS recomendation

RancidMRancidM Member
edited March 2012 in General

Hello All...

Came across LEB whislt looking around at various VPS's.

My situation is this.
I run an email server and webserver on my home network,Just for personal family use, very light loads indeed.

I have an account with DNS Made Easy which i use for DNS hosting and SMTP.
The main reason for this is becasue my ISP (Virgin) do not provide a decent outgoing SMTP for private domains.

At the moment i pay $40 per year for DNS/SMTP
my account is due for renewal next month and im toying with the idea of dumping the DNSMadeEasy account and getting a entry level VPS instead.

The trouble is theres just too many choices and options, im onto the 3rd page of LEB and totaly confused as to what option is best.

i like the look of the Kloxo control panel.
Abilty to automaticaly backup /restore the whole VPS as an image whould be nice.
I dont need vast ammounts of disk space or bandwith.

the comments sections next to some of the offers seem very heated, just making the choice even more difficult.

Any help appriciated.

Cid.

Comments

  • BlueVMBlueVM Member
    edited March 2012

    Well most providers offer kloxo, if not its an easy install (we offer a customized version that only uses 16 mb of RAM). Finding a good provider that offers actual backups is a bit of a different story. Our policy is to offer the user backup space at $1 per 10 GB of image upon request...

    Aside from that SecureDragon and BuyVM are good, so is hostigation. Not sure how they handle backups, but I do know BuyVM will probably do it fairly cheap if not they have storage plans you can get too.

  • RancidMRancidM Member
    edited March 2012

    Hello BlueVM.

    Just to clarify...
    I dont ned the provider to host the backup's.
    I have a very quick link and lots of storage at home.
    what i need is a simple and easy (one click if possible) method to backup wthe VPS and restore.

    Also access to half sensible DNS servers would be nice.

  • FranciscoFrancisco Member, Top Host, Host Rep

    @BlueVM said: but I do know BuyVM will probably do it fairly cheap if not they have storage plans you can get too.

    We provide 5GB of backup storage at no cost so if that works for you, enjoy :)

    Francisco

  • RancidMRancidM Member

    BuyVM seem to be totaly out of stock.
    I started the process to purchase via Secure Dragon but when i change the billing cycle to 12 months i get a 404 error.

    In the end have gone with Hostignation as they seem to be getting a lot of good reveiws.
    have made paypal payment....

    Just waititng for payment to process and VPS to be setup.

    Cheers.
    Cid.

  • FranciscoFrancisco Member, Top Host, Host Rep

    @RancidM said: BuyVM seem to be totaly out of stock.

    Check on the 23rd ;)

  • TaylorTaylor Member

    @Francisco said: Check on the 23rd ;)

    Runs rapidly to post on LEB.

  • AnthonySmithAnthonySmith Member, Patron Provider

    If that does not work out you can have a look at, BuyVM ^^ or vmport both offer 5GB offsite backup.

  • pingping Member

    I'd also recommend BuyVM or InceptionHosting - I have accounts with both of them and am happy - both have backup space for free aswell.

    Can't comment on VMPort or SecureDragon as I haven't used those services.

  • sleddogsleddog Member

    @RancidM said: At the moment i pay $40 per year for DNS/SMTP

    my account is due for renewal next month and im toying with the idea of dumping the DNSMadeEasy account and getting a entry level VPS instead.

    One VPS isn't gonna provide the high level of redundancy that comes with DNSMadeEasy.

    Using a VPS for SMTP will present some delivery challenges, so you need to correctly configure rDNS, SPF, DKM. And fill out forms for Yahoo and Hotmail....

    Just sayin' :)

    And I can't believe no-one has suggested you use Google for mail... usually it's the first suggestion :)

  • AsuraHostingAsuraHosting Member

    @RancidM; Definitely check out RamHost.us and his smaller yearly packages, TinyVZ and TinyKVM.

  • bijan588bijan588 Member

    ^^^ TinyVZ speeds are INSANE for the price.

    Thanked by 1VPNsh
  • VPNshVPNsh Member, Host Rep

    bijan.. those silly speeds (the 100mb cachefly in less than 2 seconds) still staying like that? That was nuts D:

    Any chance you could check d/l and i/o on it with this?

    wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O – -o /dev/null|bash

    Cheers

  • bijan588bijan588 Member

    CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31220 @ 3.10GHz
    Number of cores : 4
    CPU frequency : 3092.980 MHz
    Total amount of ram : 256 MB
    Total amount of swap : 0 MB
    System uptime : 9:30,
    Download speed from CacheFly: 94.9MB/s
    Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 80.50MB/s
    Download speed from Linode, Dallas, TX: 19.1MB/s
    Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 60.23MB/s
    Download speed from Linode, London, UK: 40.77MB/s
    Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 20.28MB/s
    Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 80.45MB/s
    Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 70.8MB/s
    Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 33.0MB/s
    Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 52.7MB/s
    I/O speed : 94.7 MB/s

  • aubsaubs Member

    If it's of interest, my two VPS':

    quickweb.co.nz
    Node : Spitfire (UK)
    (London, UK)

    wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash
    CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz
    Number of cores : 1
    CPU frequency : 2400.162 MHz
    Total amount of ram : 384 MB
    Total amount of swap : 0 MB
    System uptime : 9:17,
    Download speed from CacheFly: 41.7MB/s
    Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 1.93MB/s
    Download speed from Linode, Dallas, TX: 2.05MB/s
    Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 3.14MB/s
    Download speed from Linode, London, UK: 75.9MB/s
    Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 46.4MB/s
    Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 1.10MB/s
    Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 1.56MB/s
    Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 750KB/s
    Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 2.69MB/s
    I/O speed : 53.0 MB/s

    vooservers.com
    Node : MAIVPS05
    (Maidtone, UK)

    wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash
    CPU model : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8300 @ 2.50GHz
    Number of cores : 4
    CPU frequency : 2499.712 MHz
    Total amount of ram : 335 MB
    Total amount of swap : 1023 MB
    System uptime : 14 days, 14:00,
    Download speed from CacheFly: 11.1MB/s
    Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 2.49MB/s
    Download speed from Linode, Dallas, TX: 2.45MB/s
    Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 185KB/s
    Download speed from Linode, London, UK: 11.1MB/s
    Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 1.95MB/s
    Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 2.57MB/s
    Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 4.46MB/s
    Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 1.17MB/s
    Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 4.61MB/s
    I/O speed : 57.8 MB/s

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