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KVM VLEB Search Results
raindog308
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Spent some time searching for a lowend KVM to run OpenBSD. My criteria:
- VLEB as in "very low end". Something in the $25-35/year range ideally.
- good provider
- 128MB RAM, 5GB (or more of course) disk, 500GB bandwidth (or less)
- Ideally US-based...not crucial
- not Hostigation because I already have an awesome Hostigation 128 KVM and for this particular purpose I don't want to put all my virtual eggs in one basket. But otherwise, Hostigation is a slam dunk: $30/year for 128/10/500
My results:
buyvm - Out of stock. I was really shocked by this.
kiloserve - Out of stock and clicking on the KVM link on their page took me to the WHMCS out of stock message with no info on pricing.
TinyKVM - $35/year for 128MB/3GB/500GB. Disk is kind of small and they only are in London for KVM. I have an OvZ with them which has been good. /112 ipv6.
EDIS - $3/month for 256/5G/1TB. They have smaller plans but it's only 1GB disk and that's too small. ipv6 (/112) is another $1/month, otherwise ipv4 only. Chicago.
LoveVPS - $7/month for 384/15/300 (Orlando). Doesn't meet the criteria above but put it here because I did look at them and remember having good service with an Xen box a year or so ago.
Anyone else I'm missing?
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My TinyKVM box is great, I actually use it for the majority of my online stuff, even though it's most likely the lowest specced box I have.
How about a FreeBSD Jail in Ukraine?
http://vds6.net/ua46/
Troll of the month.
Francisco
Carstensz Pyramid Server has one 128 in $36
That sounds singular in my dual location world, plus I should get extra credit for having stock
Yea but you're in the hole on points for being a terrible shill :P
Francisco
Where are you seeing this?
http://en.edis.at/virtual-root-server_82.htm
The plan you mentioned is about $5.25 usd per month and that includes ipv6.
I didn't think we were that unpopular around here :P
KVM 256MB is 3.99 and I believe the price is in €
3.99 is if you want ipv6. You might be right on the Euro, though.
YEs, he says that because is Euro.
I didn't knew about that plan
http://vmport.com/linux-kvm.html
The pound pricing scheme is ugly >_< lol
38 USD
the VRS plans arent KVM, they are VServer. (wont run OpenBSD)
why OpenBSD? just curious
Was going to say BlueVM, but their 128mb KVM is out of stock.
i dont think you need to pay extra for the ipv6's from edis kvm.
^
You don't pay extra for ipv6. But you need KVM to get ipv6, VRS doesn't support it.
Because unlike Linux, it's free! :-)
Sorry, old joke...but in a BSD license vs. GPL license it's true, though I personally do not care.
It's actually my favorite server OS, assuming what I want to do with that server fits. For running the latest/greatest LAMP stack - no. For general Unix - sure. I use Linux or proprietary Unix for most stuff I work on just because that's what other people support, but when possible I like to use OpenBSD.
While OpenBSD is very secure out of the box, at this point Linux has closed the gap and now it's more if a 99.999% vs 99.99% thing. OpenBSD does come with a lot more security care out of the box - e.g., some filesystems are set nodev/nosuid, apache runs jailed by default, PIDs are randomized, etc. There are still some unique things in the BSD world - I don't think Linux has securelevels, where you can make some filesystems immutable so that they can't be changed except by rebooting into the console, or making some files append-only so attackers can't overwrite logs.
All that said, you can certainly make Linux very secure, too.
Do I really need that level of security? Probably not. And of course it's a VPS where you don't control the physical access, so really there are limits.
Anyway, I guess the only true answer is...because I like it :-)
http://openbsd.org/faq/faq1.html#WhyUse
@raindog thanks man. just curious maybe it could apply to me. is it good for nginx php mysql stack? is it also like in linux where LNMP ~ 40MB ram consumption?
Honestly, not really.
People do run web servers with php/mysql on it, but you'll probably be happier with Linux, just because 99% of the testing is done on Linux.
I'd probably give the same answer for FreeBSD - sure, lots of people run web servers on FreeBSD, but if you look at the world of *AMP or *NMP stacks, it's an L in the first letter 95%+ of the time.
@raindog if you dont mind, where do you usually use your OpenBSD boxes? meaning, for what purpose do people install OpenBSD on low end VPS?
Unix geeks fscking around
I prefer pf over anything else, most of the firewall i've around since more than 10 years are based on openbsd. Only it not play very well in most virtualized environment so at time i resort on freebsd which is more vm friendly...
do they have a clone of pf in linux?
Odd, since *BSD was production ready before Linux existed. When I started out in the mid 90's all my servers were FreeBSD, I've only moved to linux as the community seems to larger now, so more support.
@raindor308 i just read blogs about BSD. Its so cool. You can stay upto-date to recent, for so many years, without reinstall.
I'm running OpenBSD on it as we speak :-)
Certainly that is a big part of it. I started with SunOS 4.1, so perhaps at heart I'll always be a BSD guy.
Yes, exactly. I wouldn't point a newbie at *BSD, just because there is so much more material, tutorials, books, forums, etc. on Linux. Certainly for commercial software, Linux is the dominant Unix - even more than Solaris/AIX/etc. An Oracle rep told me that it is now the most-used platform for Oracle, which is kind of amazing given that stack's long history with Solaris.
Anyway, Linux/*BSD - long live 'em both.
Thank you