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Renting out vps
geekyhillbilly
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I have seen many posts around the internet about people buying say a $12 a year vps then renting it out for X amount per month. Say user A rents a vps for $12/yr. He then rents it out to user B for x amount per month. How does user B have control of the vps as far as starting, stopping, reinstall os, etc.? What does user A do if user B starts violating the TOS or Aup? I just don't see how User A can rent it out to user B and still have control over the vps while at the same time giving control to user B to start, stop, reinstall os ,etc. with the vps. Can anyone explain how they do that?
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They don't do that.
Only gullable people take the bait.
Shifty people, with bad intentions, who don't want their data known to the provider, might take the bait on purpose and screw you over, as you deserve.
Please no.
The real trick is when they rent it back to you
How can they!
I have no intentions of doing that! That is a sure fire way to get yourself in trouble. I was just wondering how they do it. I have seen many posts in different forums around the internet about people doing it but never seen explained how they did it. Don't see how they could without getting themselves into some kind of trouble.
LOL
Nested virtualization is the devil.
And hourly billing is his handmaid.
@geekyhillbilly maybe the posts you saw are about reselling. We have a thread with some vps resellers suggestions here.
Also there is resellerability.
I am convinced that shared hosting is a slippery slope to socialism.
They also have reseller shenanigans. Soon we will be oppressed by gay clouds!
Maybe check with @Mic-hael and @MikePT for more details about all that.
Dodgy.
@geekyhillbilly Ebay.
Getting a kvm vps and selling openvz containers inside of it, is a sound idea.
When things fail, blame 'upstream' - whoever that may be...
Smells.