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Resource Pools
dahartigan
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Dearest all,
Who is doing resource pools these days? I'm currently with hostdoc (KVM) and hostodo (ovz) and am looking for more. These 2 have me covered, but I'm hungry for more.
Preferably monthly payment, locations aren't super important but Australia would be amazing, LA second best. Budget less than $20/month.
Warmest pee running down my leg,
Me.
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ImpactVPS / ImpactShared has them I believe.
Just curious, what do you like more about resource pools vs a normal VPS?
i83/QuadHost, but good luck on a delivery.
They always come to my attention when the 50% off coupon has expired lol
Awesome question, I like that I can create and destroy as I need. I've found that if I have a bad IP it's easy enough to get a new one, can adjust the resources to each VM to the minimum required to save resources etc. Virtualizor is particularly good for ovz, don't need to ticket provider for FUSE etc.
It's a psychological thing too, I'm paying for one service that covers multiple of my servers.
I could buy a VPS for each server I need, but the resource pools just appeal to me.
EDIT2: One other point is that I do actually buy and use standalone VPS, and then when a resource pool deal comes along that suits my needs, I migrate away from said VPS to the pool instead. Once my pools start getting full, I look for another suitable pool and go from there.
Thanks, but I'll pass on that if I need luck.
We can do resource pools as a custom item in Fremont or Ashburn. We start at $15/mo. for 80GB disk and 4GB RAM and can scale up form there. Shoot me a PM if you're interested in more details.
Check out Binary Lane (https://www.binarylane.com.au) not so much a resource pool, but hourly billing, easy upgrading and downgrading of resources, cheap backups both onsite and offsite and not to mention the awesome performance!
Thanks mate, Binary lane is actually where I run my Brisbane VM. $4/month for Brisbane is both premium and LET
Thanks for your reply, at this stage a link to an order page with details for me to consider will be more helpful than a PM offer might also be useful for someone else reading this page too. Thanks again bud.
They are my provider of choice at the moment.
For sure, they're solid af for the price. Never found anything in Brisbane (my city) cheaper, I always keep credit on my BL account
Awwwwww...
Your profile picture made softness into my heart.
If only they had Perth...
Yeah i know My Perth node is located at https://intergrid.com.au/virtual.php bit more expensive but its the best around imo
I like RansomIT.
You don't mention the rest of US but if you are interested in Miami @vapornode has resource pools too.
We have an Openvz 7 based PaaS / IaaS in Los Angeles which bills on used CPU/RAM instead of plans. You can spin up any number of containers, clone them, resize on the fly with no fixed plans. Backups are included.
Signup for a free trial - https://cloudjiffy.com/
Thanks for that, Miami is a location I have recently picked up for lat.am. area.
I looked at vapornode and it fits the budget, and location so thanks for that
Me too, I had a NAT LES from them in Perth, was premium for the price of a stubbie a year.
If I could find a NAT cheap yearly in Brisbane I'd be a happy man. > @IncognitoBurrito said:
Try Ransom IT
Thanks buddy, I'll have a looksee at that one too. LA is always a safe choice location for me, best route to Australia and usually very cheap
It's unlikely to fit under budget but what about a dedi with some IPs?
Alternatively, what's wrong with the likes of DO/Hetzner Cloud where you can fire up VMs as needed?
Thanks for your input! I have toyed with the idea of a dedi, but the simple fact is I cbf dealing with the hardware. I'd be better hitching a ride on a nice server in a good location.
DO/hetzner cloud are both awesome, I think it's a psychological thing paying hourly seems so temporary whereas monthly feels better. I am
a little bitextremely retarded so that's whySo far I feel good about the providers I'm with now, I've clearly gotten some killer deals
I get what you're saying - I have a dedi + /28 I use for playing with, experimenting with networking and virtualisation (sorry @deank - no summer host plans = no drama) which is a fixed price per month, but I will depending on requirements use a service like Hetzner Cloud/DO/Vultr if required. I saw a VM "reseller" pool recently, but can't remember the provider (was UK based) - although I don't think it would have been anywhere near the budget.
I once used a Contabo VPS as a virtualizor resource pool just because you get like 8GB of RAM, 200GB SSD and 4 Cores with their smallest plan lol (4,99€/mo). Was only for some fun projects and experimenting also with IPv6 but was fun actually. Set up some IPv6 only VPS, connected them to Cloudflare 6 to 4 and had the websites backed up automatically via Rsync
I did a similar thing with a couple of those cheap polish dedis a while back, with proxmox. Then got the shits with 300+ms latency and decided I'm better off using those funds on separate VPS in ideal locations, and that turned into discovering VPS pools and here I am lol.
That UK one is probably @HostDoc and that's the one I would call my main one, I use it for creating KVMs in Sydney, and for 10 pounds a month I'm ripping him off severely for what I get. Hostodo has my Miami and LA covered for VZ stuff, for $5/month it's also a steal. Still leaves around $15/month until I'm paying more than the dedis, and that includes my $5.99 2TB SYS arm storage (I use this for backups and for storing random downloads that isn't for Plex.
I've fallen in love with Virtualizor as a panel, from a client perspective, maybe one day I'll rent a dedi for a month and try out the free license for a month.
This is exactly what I was getting at, that sounds cool. Too bad EU is a location I'd never actually race out and buy as I don't have a good connection to there and I don't have anyone to serve there.
Yeah I hear ya mate! It's just awesome spinning up and down vms, re-allocating resources, backup, snapshot, destroy go back and forth. It's like Serverporn < 3
The fact that with one plan you can have so many instances is just awesome. You don't need to go with Contabo, was just gonna point out what things you can do with a Resource Pool. It's just awesome. With many webhosts you don't get ssh/root with shared hosting. With a resource pool you spin up an instance, tweak it, optimize it to use minimum resources (google: Lowendbox 18 static html pages on 64mb ram vps) or just use centminmod.. have full root/ssh access, ability to backup/restore with one click, rsync etc
hostdoc **
**lunanode
support, price and they try to help and not just copy paste text ...
I've never tried contabo but it looks like the sort of thing I'd try out one day for the lols and they aren't on my "shit list"
Did you install Virtualizor on your VPS and split it up? Sounds like what I did with Proxmox. Does contabo allow virt pass through?
It wasn't hostdoc, as I've looked at theirs too recently.
Never used Virtualisor (from an admin point of view anyway). Currently in the process of toying with a second proxmox box for HA.
One of the first providers I used here at LET was also super helpful and helped me get started when I was practically speaking a total noob. Big shoutout to @rickey318 from ABC hosting was it?
Yes, they are both awesome providers My best experience with a LET host has so far been from hostdoc and lunanode was fun to play with the free credit
Yeah I installed it on their vps. Back then they did dunno about now. But for 4,99€/mo you don't have much to loose really
Check my signature for my contabo review. I'd call them fairly decent and long established. Not the top of the line but by far not the worst performing either. Great price/specs ratio, just some network hiccups here and there.