Rus Foster guns for the $15/year market: TechieVPS offers 128MB/10GB/1TB OVZ in London or USA West

DanielM

@liam said: What did you do?

No i blame rus partially. As in People say it was his constant use of same passwords. I also signup to this theory

DanielM

@liam said: So the indian guy committed suicide because of Rus use of the same password or?

No. I blame rus for using the same passwords. And the guy Committed suicide becuz he lost a huge contract. And i dont think his password was weak in the sense. it was reusing it again and again..

DanielM

@liam said: Although someone said K.T was quite well of in the real world?

Yeh. but this contract was huge i believe, and it would be a huge loss. For someone that was quite a large customer and for your software to be blamed on something like that and thousands of sites deleted..

speckl

I enjoy watching other providers offer 6mb/s disk copy rates :P

giang

@quirkyquark said: With eyes wide open I jumped in and got one of the UK plans...

Mine Xen-HVM plan isn't that bad, dd is about 100MB/s but I couldn't get network to work with their gateway settings

yywudi

dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 12.9611 s, 82.8 MB/s

quirkyquark

@yywudi said: 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 12.9611 s, 82.8 MB/s

UK or US?

yywudi

@quirkyquark said: UK or US?

US
slc1fifteen node..
maybe few vz on this node now...

wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2012-04-24 18:46:04-- http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `100mb.test'

100%[=======>] 104,857,600 24.8M/s in 4.8s

2012-04-24 18:46:08 (20.8 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]

yywudi

another interesting thing:
root@te:~# uname -r
2.6.32-308.el5.028stab099.3xen

acturally it's openvz...

MrAndroid

@yywudi said: 2.6.32-308.el5.028stab099.3xen

So their running it in a Xen VPS.

Boltersdriveer

Virtualization on virtualization like people was asking!

DanielM

@Daniel said: So their running it in a Xen VPS.

They Call it "Cloud"

yywudi

@DanielM said: They Call it "Cloud"

oh, interesting "Cloud"

Aldryic

@yywudi said: oh, interesting "Cloud"

Next marketing ploy: Materia Storage

miTgiB

@Aldryic said: Materia Storage

That has a very smooth flow and nice sound to it, congrats on word creation.

Maybe you can license it to vps.net for their new storage platform http://onapp.com/storage/

MrAndroid

So wait?

They put their HDDs on balloons which are now floating in the clouds? Stupid foster, he must realise that their going to break up there!

Aldryic

So far, there's only one name that I can think of that will actually have 'cloud' servers

raindog308

One question answers the buyvm vs. Foster-led companies in my mind:

Does buyvm use "d1as" or "aldry1c" or "anth0ny" as server passwords? :-)

yywudi

@Aldryic said: So far, there's only one name that I can think of that will actually have 'cloud' servers

long live Private Bay!

Aldryic

I did set a temporary password of mydickburnsforyou for a particularly obnoxious client once <_<

yomero

@liam said: Nah p0ny

OMG!

Proceeding to change passwords

AnthonySmith

@liam just for Clarity Inception Hosting are not selling OpenVZ from XEN I think he was just making a play on the name.

yywudi

they techieVPS said "I can also confirm that your VPS is not run inside of Xen box. Our control panel, SolusVM, though is running on a Xen instance, hence you may see xen on your VPS, though it's clearly OpenVZ."

you think what?

rds100

@yywudi One word: bullshit

laaev

He's going to destroy UK2's reputation by doing this.

Don't know why UK2 bothers to keep him... this will harm UK2Group more than it will do good.

Francisco

I think the guys hilarious.

He went out of his way to write this big blog post taking stabs at 'my little pony' and the true definition of 'unmanaged' and then goes and tries to copy us

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

The sad part is the pony thing is just a really silly company joke between a few of us and some companies are just sooooo butthurt over it.

Francisco

laaev

Why is TechieVPS's WHMCS install /whmcs-2 ? http://techievps.com/whmcs-2/

He is too lazy to rename to /clients or something a bit more professional ?

Aldryic

@Francisco said: The sad part is the pony thing is just a really silly company joke between a few of us and some companies are just sooooo butthurt over it.

A bit irritating how everyone keeps assuming it's in reference to my little pony, though <_<

quirkyquark

@yywudi said: "I can also confirm that your VPS is not run inside of Xen box.

Apart from the giveaway in the kernel, why does this file exist and say what it does on my OpenVZ VPS?

cat /proc/xen/balloon

Current allocation:  1540096 kB
Requested target:    1540096 kB
Low-mem balloon:    23109632 kB
High-mem balloon:          0 kB
Driver pages:              0 kB
Xen hard limit:          ??? kB

This says that the underlying Xen kernel, yanno, shared by all the OVZ instances, is running on 1.5 GB of RAM. What physical node these days has only 1.5 GB of RAM?

laaev

So he basically has a VPS.net instance and installed Solus+OVZ on that.