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They suspend your server if you have a load higher than 1.00 or something. Still, would be perfect for a small cPanel server if you don't have any abusive end users.
Apart from during an update/install.
I thought you could burst just not for long?
I was referring to the line I posted.
I bought a 512MB VPSDime and use it as a development webserver (nginx/php/mysql).
So far I'm hugely impressed with performance & reliability. But I can't imagine what to do with 6GB
[root@par:~] free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 512 249 262 0 0 219 -/+ buffers/cache: 30 481 Swap: 512 0 512Lots of stuff. Zimbra and Atlassian products for example, but nogo because of the privacy issue with OVZ. Too bad.
judy array
IMO, OVZ doesn't have privacy issues.
Providers (may) have privacy issues.
"Nothing wrong with living in a glass house. It's all those weirdos outside on the street looking through my walls who are the problem".
Nice one
But... if your provider want to look at your data/processes, be it KVM or XEN it can be done! Better be with a provider you trust, anyway...
Cute, but as an analogy it's quite flawed
Boot, then make a ramdisk, then send all your webpages to it, and start apache and php
BTW, send apache and php to the ramdisk, too
Not exactly practical though. If we use encrypted volumes and protected runtime memory (only in Windows?) the provider would need to be an expert (and should be paid way more by a government) and have a lot of time to find anything.
With OpenVZ, the provider only has to write a couple of commands and they're in.
Just like encryption. All encryption can be broken. But why do we still encrypt things - because no one will spend the capital.
I will never use OpenVZ for a mail server, or a server that handles SSL keys. But of course some call me crazy and/or paranoid.
I wonder what the readahead daemon or the Linux kernel would do with 5GB of extra memory. Cache the whole file system?
I had this old computer with a good deal of ram some time ago. It using USB 1.1. This was incredibly slow. I believe I was able to pull the whole flash drive into memory by touching every file.
I'm using it to host Plex Media Server, handles it very nicely, can stream to multiple clients at the same time, do some transcoding, etc.
Surely that's taking a hefty steaming shit on the CPU rather than using the RAM?
Run a hosting business, or benchmark it :P.
red5 media server need +4GB RAM to run ok...
I used to do that in the nineties on DOS. I would send the whole floppy to a ramdisk and run it on a PC without a HDD.
It's funny because this is exactly the problem these plans have. The overlap between high RAM usage and legitimate/fair use is microscopically small.
It's marketing folks.
You're right, its more CPU intensive, but the extra RAM doesn't hurt. Truth be told, I don't really transcode anything, so just basic streaming isn't very resource intensive at all.
It's funny because we have lots of people using their memory at peak and get upgraded to 12GB or 18GB plans. We even have a customer who is on 48GB
We are giving people to opportunity to use up to 6GB ram and it depends on their skill level and usage case to utilize it.
If your application doesn't need that much memory, you still end up on a stable and fast VPS with great addons such as offloaded mysql (working on postgre as we speak as well) server and daily backups with self restore ability.
Transcoding doesn't really seem to eat much RAM from my experience, I've had excellent performance under 512MB with use of 4 cores, whereas 2GB and 2 cores is significantly less fun.
Good to know, thanks for the info.
It's funny because we have lots of people using their memory at peak and get upgraded to 12GB or 18GB plans.
So basically I won't be able to utilize the full 6GB without swapping because everyone is at peak, correct?
Is that what I said? lol
Well you're kind of implying that your service is heavily oversold. I'm a little confused what you meant.
Literally no clue how you managed to get that from his comment.
That's not what he was implying at all. He was implying that there are many customers that use up all of the given RAM on their plan. They then require to upgrade to a more powerful plan to run their services since the current plan they are at isn't enough. It has nothing to do with overselling, it has to do with feeding more resources into the service.
I'm sure VPSDime is oversold, but that doesn't automatically equate to "you can't use the resources you're paying for." Almost everyone oversells -- that's what makes most of the offers you see on LEB/T possible -- but the difference between lousy providers and great providers is how well they manage it. Done right, you'd never be able to tell.
384GB Memory overzold? yep