REAL DEALS HERE -- WIN BIG WITH THOUSANDS IN PRIZES + RackNerd's NEW YEAR OFFERS! (New Year 2024)

noob404

@PepePepperoni said:
also any plans to add VDS?

https://racknerd.com/ > Dedicated Servers

noob404

@Zreind said:
happy new year guys, entered to giveaway

Welcome to the party, dude. Stay active on the thread. Surprise(s) incoming.

dustinc

@sh97 said:
@dustinc hoping for an SG location in 2024!

@sh97 -- Anything is possible! We are certainly to expand further in 2024 🚀

Thank You for your continued support, and wishing you tons of success in the new year.

noob404

@dustinc said:

@sh97 said:
@dustinc hoping for an SG location in 2024!

@sh97 -- Anything is possible! We are certainly to expand further in 2024 🚀

Thank You for your continued support, and wishing you tons of success in the new year.

This is awesome news. May you guys have physical outlets in multiple locations soon.

dustinc

@0xC7 said:
Oh Yeah, Let The Racknerd New Year Party Begin 🎉👏
#THE-RACKNERD-NEW-YEAR-PARTY-IS-ALIVE!

#AINT-NO-PARTY-LIKE-A-RACKNERD-PARTY

🎉🎉🎉

dustinc

@OKHao said:
Hi, I would like to double the bandwidth. Order Number: 8917070386
Thanks!

Hi @OKHao -- Thank You for placing another order with RackNerd 👊 We greatly appreciate the continued opportunities.

We've gone ahead and doubled your bandwidth resources for this order successfully.

dustinc

@Bonana123 said:
Order Number: 2158229461
Happy new year! Wishing RN continued success in the new year! Go RackNerd! 🚀

Hi @Bonana123 -- Happy New Year! And thank you so much for the wishes -- we wish you the same

We've gone ahead and doubled your bandwidth resources - let's go! 🎉

dustinc

@1allen said:
Happy New Year folks!

@1allen -- Happy New Year! Here's to a fantastic year ahead for all of us! 🎉🥳

dustinc

@suut said:

THE-RACKNERD-NEW-YEAR-PARTY-IS-ALIVE!🎉👏

@suut -- You've got that right!

#THE-RACKNERD-NEW-YEAR-PARTY-IS-ALIVE!🎉👏

dustinc

@fadedmaple said:
Time flies. My first RackNerd VPS was from the 2021 New Year special.

Hi @fadedmaple -- Wow! It's amazing how time flies! Happy to hear our services have been working well for your needs throughout the years.

We're committed to continuing to provide excellent service and value. Thank You for sticking with RackNerd, and for being apart of our success story 🚀🎉

PepePepperoni

@noob404 said:

@PepePepperoni said:
also any plans to add VDS?

https://racknerd.com/ > Dedicated Servers

That's more like bare metal. I guess I was expecting dedicated vcores or the offering like the one of crunchbits

dustinc

@ripeapple said:
wish Racknerd's business flourish and prosper in 2024!

Hi @ripeapple -- Thank You for the kind wishes! We're extremely grateful for your support. We look forward to sharing more exciting developments in 2024.

Here's to flourishing and prospering together! 🌟🚀

dustinc

@bbass said:
Happy New Year !!! 🎆🎇🎆🎇

Happy New Year @bbass

dustinc

@Gisif said:
THE-RACKNERD-NEW-YEAR-PARTY-IS-ALIVE!🎉👏

It really is! Thank You for joining our New Year party thread @Gisif

dustinc

@forumsuk said:
Is it good enough (1GB server) to run a simple private Minecraft server for my girls?

@forumsuk -- I've seen this be done by clients before (likely with some heavy optimizations), but I would imagine 2 GB RAM or higher would be likely be more ideal for this.

noob404

@PepePepperoni said:

@noob404 said:

@PepePepperoni said:
also any plans to add VDS?

https://racknerd.com/ > Dedicated Servers

That's more like bare metal. I guess I was expecting dedicated vcores or the offering like the one of crunchbits

Oh, I see. You'd try contacting live chat on the website to see if they can accommodate your custom request. Else, dustinc, the CEO is always here.

dustinc

@pluto1997 said:
Hello, Happy New year, I would like to double the bandwidth. Thanks!

order: 7171308825
Invoice: 9361826

Hi @pluto1997 -- Thank You placing an order with us, and Happy New Year 👊

We've gone ahead and doubled your bandwidth.

dustinc

@webshanks said:
let's go racknerd vps ftw!

@webshanks -- We're all in for making it an awesome experience, thank you for joining our New Year party!

Also, not a bad idea for a keyword for a future giveaway, what do you think? 🤔

#LETS-GO-RACKNERD-VPS-FTW!

dustinc

@MrEd said:
Hi everyone, I see 42 notifications (have been offline for some time) with mentions of a new tracker On my way! I will have to do a snapshot for the BF first

Hey hey @MrEd! Welcome to the party 🎉

Wishing you plenty of success in the new year.

dustinc

@MrEd said:
The stats have started crawling, but I see I forgot to update the title Page will be unavailable shortly

@MrEd -- Looking good, thank you so much!

noob404

@dustinc said:

@forumsuk said:
Is it good enough (1GB server) to run a simple private Minecraft server for my girls?

@forumsuk -- I've seen this be done by clients before (likely with some heavy optimizations), but I would imagine 2 GB RAM or higher would be likely be more ideal for this.

https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Server/Requirements/Dedicated - "Note that these requirements are for the server only you will need to allocate more resources to the OS!"

So yes, 2GB+ RAM would likely meet your needs.

MrEd

@dustinc said:

@MrEd said:
Hi everyone, I see 42 notifications (have been offline for some time) with mentions of a new tracker On my way! I will have to do a snapshot for the BF first

Hey hey @MrEd! Welcome to the party 🎉

Wishing you plenty of success in the new year.

Thanks, you too have a great year

dustinc

@noob404 said:

@kashon said:
Remember Robin Hood sharing the wealth? OpenVZ did the same for VPS, making it accessible to the masses through free and open-source software.

Very cheap as well, compared to KVM. But, can OpenVZ do everything a low-level KVM can do? Asking cause my knowledge in the area is minimal.

@noob404 -- It is quite antiquated/old school nowadays, we retired our OpenVZ product line IIRC in ~2020 and gave all of our clients that were still on OpenVZ, a free upgrade to our KVM virtualization product line.

Consumers prefer KVM, and also from a provider perspective, KVM is much better as its "full" virtualization whereas OpenVZ is "containers". With OpenVZ there are certain modules (i.e. TUN/TAP) that need to be enabled from the host node side, also it shares the host node kernel with every container so VM's are unable to run their own kernels. With KVM you can also mount/install your own ISO, which is awesome.

dustinc

@DeadlyChemist said:
hey ! back for party (timezones)

@DeadlyChemist -- Thank You for joining! Any plans for the New Year?

dustinc

@PepePepperoni said:
also any plans to add VDS?

Hi @PepePepperoni -- All available packages we have for the New Year sale are listed at https://www.racknerd.com/NewYear/ - though we are not limited to the packages listed here. Feel free to reach out to me at [email protected] with a description of your full specification requirements, and I'll be happy to put together a custom package/quote for you based around your needs. We have certainly done larger-sized virtual servers for custom requests before, so we can definitely help. Just all depends on what you need.

TrK

@noob404 said:
BTW, anybody here running unmanaged KVM (Ubuntu), what'd be the best way to backup the whole OS running a webserver before updating it? I have heard bad things that happen during an update, but, updates are necessary. So, I need a way to restore if something were to go wrong.
When I say backup, I mean full backup which can be restored such that, the pre-update is OS is retrieved with the files and everything. Is something like that possible on Ubuntu?
Checked apps like Timeshift, but found they do partial backups at best.

There are many ways, it depends what you are looking for!!

dustinc

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@MrEd said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:
In easier terms see openvz as a container-based virtualization, Microsoft is doing something similar with their WSL.

So, LXC, if I am not wrong?

Close, LXC is also very similar to OpenVZ but can't be said to be exact same thing.

To add to the conversation, OVZ, LXC, any containerization limits your VM to only features that are enabled by the host/containerization type. Not everything works on containers, if you need something really low level, it might not work. Some providers do enable features on request, but not everything is possible. On the other hand, KVM is a full virtualized environment, so you can do whatever you want. It may not be optimal, but will work if you have enough resources.

Got it. Have some experience with LXC working on Proxmox, but OpenVZ is alien to me. Thanks a lot, everyone.

There was one more, Xen and it was pretty awesome before KVM got his fame.

Yeah, heard about Xen and ESXi as well. These are mostly used by huge corporates I believe.

I still remember the days on LEB when Xen and OpenVZ were quite popular Nowdays, you rarely hear of these two. KVM definitely took the fame

dustinc

@themew said:
Happy New Year to Dustin and the amazing crew at RackNerd!!!

Happy New Year to you as well @themew -- Thank You so much! Let's crush 2024 🚀

TrK

LETS-GO-RACKNERD-VPS-FTW!

dustinc

@Zreind said:
happy new year guys, entered to giveaway

Happy New Year @Zreind