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Luna Node Dynamic: Hourly-billed Toronto KVM -- Floating IPs, Detachable Volumes, Virtual Networking
Luna Node Dynamic - dynamic virtualization platform (KVM)
Luna Node Dynamic is an hourly billing virtualization platform in Toronto featuring rapid virtual machine deployment, snapshotting capabilities, an API for automation, complementary minimal server monitoring / DNS hosting, security groups, detachable volumes, and more. Register an account in our panel!
Luna Node offers reliable KVM virtual private servers at affordable prices. We use OpenStack for the Luna Node Dynamic backend.
Here's a more detailed feature explanation:
- Hourly billing - you can create or destroy virtual machines at any time, and then only pay for the hours that VMs were used for. This allows you to provision test containers or scale your Internet application without having to pay for a month per container. The service is prepaid, with Paypal and Bitcoin (via Coinbase) as our current billing options.
- Custom operating systems - simply submit a URL, and the system will download your ISO image or qcow2 template. Once downloaded, you can provision new virtual machines with the custom operating system. For ISO images, OS installation can be completed over VNC (noVNC client).
- Snapshotting - hit a button to snapshot your virtual machine, and the current state of the disk image will be saved to our distributed filesystem. You can then use it to restore your virtual machine to a previous saved state or to provision more VMs. Snapshots are charged at $0.04 / GB / month (billed hourly); the first 20 GB is currently free but this is subject to change.
- API - we provide a simple API that you can use to manage your servers without going through the web UI.
- Track billing - a Billing tab is included in the Luna Node Dynamic panel that allows you to easily check your expenses for each month, with expenses sorted by day. Invoices are also posted at the end of each month for users who require such documents.
- Floating IP addresses - you can keep IP addresses on reserve in your account for $1/month (billed hourly). This means you can easily switch an external IP address between different virtual machines on your account. Additionally, if you don't need a VM for the time being, you can snapshot it and then disassociate its floating IP address so that you only have to pay for the storage space and IP.
- Redundant cloud storage - VMs may optionally be provisioned on top of a distributed, fault-tolerant filesystem to prevent data loss or downtime in case of a host node failure.
- Private virtual networks - you can create a private virtual network, and the private interface of virtual machines in that network will be isolated from other clients. (Each network is $4/month, billed hourly.)
- Load balancing, firewall, VPN as a service - inside your private network, these features are available. See https://wiki.lunanode.com/index.php/Virtual_networks for details.
- Detachable volumes - create arbitrary-sized block devices (volumes) and attach/detach them to virtual machine instances on the fly. For example, you can store application data on a separate volume so that the OS can be upgraded independently.
- Server monitoring - we offer basic server monitoring at no additional cost, where you can set up checks (e.g. ping, TCP connect), and receive notifications over email or SMS when the checks fail.
- Security groups - define external traffic restrictions on a VM-group level to make securing your software easy.
- Startup scripts - specify shell or cloud-config scripts to be run the first time your new VM instances boot.
To get started, you can register an account from our panel; an initial deposit of $12.00 is required. After the initial deposit, more credit in smaller increments (minimum $5.00) can be added when needed. We accept payments through Paypal and Bitcoin.
Plans
- 512 MB - 1 vCPU, 15 GB storage, 1000 GB bandwidth, $0.005 hourly ($3.6 monthly)
- 1024 MB - 2 vCPU, 20 GB storage, 1500 GB bandwidth, $0.0072 hourly ($5.18 monthly)
- Special 2048 - 2 vCPU, 20 GB storage, 2000 GB bandwidth, $0.0097 hourly ($7.00 monthly)
- Special 1536 - 1 vCPU, 15 GB storage, 2000 GB bandwidth, $0.0072 hourly ($5.18 monthly)
Port speed is 1 gbit/s. Click here for full plan list.
You can open a ticket within the first week to request a refund of remaining credit on your account, no questions asked.
Note that Canadian customers will be charged sales tax when adding credit.
Locations
Test IP for Toronto location (245 Consumers Rd 300 Toronto; Cogent DC) is here: http://toronto-test.lunanode.com/100MB.test
About
LunaNode Hosting Inc. is a registered company based in British Columbia, Canada. We first launched in August 2013, focusing on low-cost, reliable KVM virtual private server hosting. We use OpenStack for our back-end and an in-house billing / VM management panel called lndynamic on the front-end (we also developed and continue to maintain pbobp, a free software billing panel, and use it for managed hosting services).
Upload your PGP key to https://lunanode.com/gpgmw to receive encrypted email from our mail server.
Flexible plans
We an additional low-end plan called Flexible 2048. Flexible plans come with fixed storage and memory resources, but CPU and bandwidth are billed based on usage to give more flexibility. CPU is priced at $16 per full CPU core per month (billed hourly); for example, if you use 20% of each of four cores over one week, then the charge is 0.2 * 4 * (16/4) = $3.20. Bandwidth is billed at 0.003/GB.
New features
We have added an IP manager tool that allows adding up to three IP addresses per virtual machine from the panel. Outgoing SMTP traffic is blocked on additional IP addresses. Additional IP addresses require manual network configuration inside the virtual machine instance.
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Comments
Why use that too much fields for registration?
Name and email must enough..
We collect customer physical address per Canadian tax-related law. Ordinarily Paypal would record this information, but we also accept payments over Bitcoin. Customer details may also be used for IP usage reporting with ARIN.
We do not require any information other than name, email, a password to protect your account, and physical address.
Seriously?
Look at what he offers. He has been a reliable hosted. He offers you digitalocean style system with almost every feature we want or have asked for, at a lower price and you are complaining about filling in one too many fields.
WHMCS has more fields than that for a standard VPS.
Back on track wonderful hoster. Good up times and reliability
This is one of the most underestimated hosts at LowEndTalk if you ask me. What's being offered here with these prices is simply amazing and I'm looking for a reason to use one of these boxes.
I have no reason for one. It sits running some PHP apps till I need a good VM
Can I ask is it possible to get exactly Canadian IP ? Test IP shows as USA IP from Psinet., Inc from Cogent.
Example: 170.75.162.189
Virtual machines are assigned IP addresses in 170.75.162.0/24 and 170.75.163.0/24 ranges by default, although 38.110.116.0/23 is possible by opening support ticket.
Edit: yeah I'm not sure why our 38.110.116.0/23 range is marked as "PSINet, Inc.", Cogent acquired that company a while ago.
If this possible get unlimited BW with port caps?
No, you can use kernel-level tweaking to adjust your port speed. Additional bandwidth over your virtual machine plan's allocation is billed at $0.003/GB.
I've got a VPS with you guys and I'm happy with it. Any chance of you expanding into a US location soon?
Nope, no plans like that.