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I used to use LES for vpn's, but after a few months my vpn stopped working and never worked again. So I've not used them since
Few people had that issue after node reboots, its just a case of disabling and re-enabling the tun/tap adapter in solusvm.
Ive had more downtime from INIZ than my three LES boxes in Syd and JP.. Mostly used for VPN OpenVPN, TeamSpeak / websites and an NGINX proxy.
They work perfectly it always depends on what you need and want to and of course how much you're going to rely on them. As you can see most people use them for GEO or dev boxes.
@ATHK indeed 95% of the point of them is that they don't need an SLA, they are so cheap you can disperse or replicate your site, service, whatever over 5 (or more) locations in 5 DC's in 5 different countries for €12.00 p/Year so you can build your own high availability so you no longer need someone to give you up time guarantees, best efforts on this becomes better than 100% SLA promises on a single location.
It looks like it is because it is behind cloudflare and when people connect over IPv6 the XFF HTTP header field is not passed when using ipv6<>ipv4 translation, should have been obvious really I just never considered that, should be easy to fix, I will get it sorted.
@anthonysmith yes, but they are rl friends to it's okay to flame them
What I ment to say is that it's not only related to IPv6 translations/transports via CF. It happens via IPv4 also.
It IS a Cloudflare issue none the less.
Hi,
Sorry for the late reply
Thanks guys for your feedback. Much appreciate the time you have taken
sounds really great
Last question please
what can you recommend openvpn or softether vpn
and is NginX + PHP-fpm + apc + MariaDB a a good choice? or can you recommend something else?
Thanks
I wouldn't recommend LES for anything serious. Uptime tends to be rather poor according to my experience with IH LES.
openvpn
Yes, but remember that when using APC with php-fpm the cache is shared among all pools of a single master process. If you want to properly isolate pools from one another you shouldn't use APC with php-fpm or spawn multiple master processes.
Inception, Deepnet and Ransom are perfect uptime wise. NanoVZ is a little behind.
I only have experience with IH so that's what I mean. I guess I should mention that in an edit.
Can I ask what location?
UK and Italy. The shared IPs often get DoSed. UK has been especially poor.
UK had an issue for ~3 days which was eventually resolved by (IIRC) a chassis swap. Other than that it is usually fine.
Remember, these are fantastic for what they are.
Here is the uptime graph from SmokePing running on my LES at Nottingham.
from what I read the real reason is not uptime (since the vps are accessible and running) it is the lack of ipv4 connection that troubles you.
Same problem you would have no matter the provider (without ddos protection).
Don't rely on ipv4 and it has been one of the most stabel boxes I've had.
Neither would I, that's why it is a none SLA service.
Italy does get hit fairly often but only one of the IP4's if you switched to IPv6 which is the primary for LES you would have had 0 downtime.