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Getting started with KVM.
Hey guys,
I am not much of a server person but I do like to muck around with the occasional hobby idea. I have, up till now, been using OpenVZ servers with various providers and I was looking to get into some KVM servers. That being said, I really have no idea where to start looking. I was wondering if you guys could help me out by letting me know what are good specs for certain prices and any cheap providers where I can just play around with a KVM server for a while. I am not looking for anything serious, but anything in excess of 64 mb ram would be fine. Any tips about KVM management and similar topics would be really appreciated.
Thanks
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In my experience I found that Front Range Hosting and NodeDeploy are good KVM providers.
FRH have 256MB KVM for $1.87 here: http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/7290/
Hey,
We have KVM offers on our website, and I'll be glad to help you out finding the right one.
The servers function similarly for most uses - the main difference is you have a full kernel and OS, so you need more resources for that, but it also gives you the power to tweak your OS and kernel.
@ishaq this is probably not the kind of think you want to get into. I will end up needing help quite often, and i would feel bad hassling you.
You won't, there's not many more issues you can run into while using KVM instead of OpenVZ (unless you mess about with your kernel/hard drive).
@gubbyte yeah, in experimenting, I might actually end up accidentally doing that...