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Help choosing a VPS
Well, around 4 days ago I stumbled into this site and found the idea of a having a VPS neat, even not having the need for one is something fun to play with and useful to use as a small minecraft server, backup, always-on personal ftp server, etc, and at 14/yr for a basic vps I couldn’t resist and bought it from AlienVPS. I played around with it but in 4 days they had 2 several hour offtime and around when I try to do anything resource intensive sometimes the server simply crashes (does not answer ssh or anything, have to reboot), dd tests show speeds bellow 3MB/s, etc. While their service is unusable I liked playing around with it and I will get a more 'serious' (but still low end) VPS.
So what I'm looking for: A preferably XEN (trough OpenVZ is acceptable) good VPS that has around 256 RAM (512 if possible), 30gb storage, 400gb transfer, decent network/disk speeds and permits irc, proxy, gameservers, vpn, etc for MAX $5/month. Is there any providers that have an offer like this that you have an personal experience with and are good? It looks like there are a LOT of providers that oversell too much, vanish after a couple months, good at first but after they get unusable, etc, so I would like something that has been proven to be good. Recommendations?
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Just some things to think about:
Some VPS servers have automatic cron jobs that kill JAVA processes (ie. minecraft).
Additionally, Minecraft's JAVA usage doesn't work well within small VPS servers.
@kiloserve
Whoa, I didn't know that. Sad really.
Well it would be a very small minecraft server (around 5 people online at time max) so I think it could be feasible. Anyways, if the resources are not enough I will simply not run it, it is not important really.
My first stop would be the review section. The requirements ask for are not unattainable but always remember the saying "you get what pay for" .
quality servers offers minecraft hosting
I already had a look there but I wanted to see if somebody has a VPS with similar setup that works well and recommends. I might go with lower specs for the same price if I can't find a good server with that setup for that price, is asking for no/little downtime and not heavily oversold server much?
@daimonb
I'm looking for a VPS to play around and, among other things, possibly host a minecraft server, I'm not looking specifically not a minecraft server really.
sorry its like 1.30 am here so only half read lol.
Have a look at BuyVM.net - they meet your needs and don't auto kill java processes
ChicagoVPS... more mem than you need but meets all of your other reqs. Check out lowendbox for their latest offer
BuyVM for sure ... only no stock since August ... release the ponies
Might want to search the main site as minecraft has been discussed at some length:
http://www.lowendbox.com/?s=minecraft&searchsubmit=Find
@cedric
While they look good and lots of people recommend it, it is out of stock for a long time, so they are not an option.
@rkrazy
Will have a look, have you used them personally?
@rkrazy
Well, I just had a look at them but I wanted something max $5/month, they charge $7 and have only 10GB disk space, the rest of the specs look fine, but too expensive and little storage space.
@drmike
Thanks, but I'm not really interested into a minecraft server, it is just some neat thing I could do with a VPS.
@lardo yes and I still use them. No issues in the past 2 mos knocking on wood ... only time my vps went down is due to manual reboot and os reload
@rkrazy
Sorry, I found they offer on LEB and seems very good, how about uptime, overselling, etc?
@lardo --- http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/chicagovps-5-1gb-openvz-vps-in-chicago/
latest promo is $5/m recur for 1gb/30gb/1.5tb
@rkrazy
Could you post some dd, network, etc tests if that is not asking too much?
So overall they are a good provider?
All LEB providers using OVZ oversell to some degree... they have to eat... uptime is good, server has been very stable for me. So far I have nothing to complain about.
October 15th.
POOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
@rkrazy
Thanks a lot! They look real good for the price, I'll search more but if they deliver what they promise I'm probably buying from them
We also have a VPS with ChicagoVPS, it's a good value. If you have any issues, just open a ticket before complaining here, they are friendly and want to do good by the customer.
don't tease us! just set my reminder. Have acct credit burning a hole in my pocket.
@lardo ... np
Bitcable (KVM) is pretty good, except they don't allow irc.
@circus
I'll have a look. Why is irc disallowed on so many places? I can't see why it is so nasty, or it just uses too much resources?
I just had a look into bitcable and it is too expensive, may be because they offer kvm.
@lardo, I believe their datacenter doesn't allow irc. Yeah you are correct, I just check and their promotional code from here -> http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/226/bitcable-awesome-kvms-with-50-off-4.00-mo-256-mb-ram is already expired. ^_^
Hmm, I found that too and @Bitcable replied me that it will not come back. Hostigation is also great, give it a try.
That's not necessarily true.
Also to OP -- why are you limiting your search to OVZ/XEN? There are more enterprise-grade alternatives like VMWare that will give you better performance PLUS the ability to customize your kernel. Perhaps it's cost....
@vmstormvps
Yes, it is because of cost, I doubt I will find a KVM or VMWare server with that specs for that price.