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Whats the ideal vps plan and price for you?
I would love to hear what people want most. I think creating a VPS plan for yourself is the best idea. Now be realistic about this and not 10000TB of hdd space or anything.
Here's my Ideal Plan:
Ram: 1GB ( a small minecraft server / file backup )
vSwap: 512MB
Bandwidth: 200GB-1TB ( might need more than 200GB if I backup and use minecraft daily)
Location: Near Michigan (not because I provide services there but because I live there lol)
IPv4's: 2
HDD Space: 50GB ( backups of my data, perhaps use this like dropbox )
Price: About $7/m
Whats your ideal plan?
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I'm always looking for geographically-diverse nodes for my DNS project.
My ideal:
Virt: OpenVZ
Ram: 128mb
Vswap or burst: +32mb
HD space: 4gb
Bandwidth: at least 20gb
Location: somewhere that's not already oversaturated
IPv4: 1
IPv6: 1+
Price: $2 or less
My ideal:
Xen
256 MB of Ram
10 GB HDD
200 GB BW
One IPV4 address
2+ IPV6 addresses
Price: $6-7
Virt: OpenVZ
Ram: 128mb
Vswap or burst: +32mb
HD space: 4gb
Bandwidth: at least 20gb
Location: somewhere that's not already oversaturated
IPv4: 1
IPv6: 1+
Price: $2 or less
Virt: XEN HVM
Ram: 128mb
Vswap or burst: +128mb
HD space: 4gb
Bandwidth: at least 20gb
Location: somewhere that's not already oversaturated
IPv4: 1
IPv6: 1+
Price: $20-25 Yearly
Is it possible?
Xen
256 MB of RAM
512 MB Swap
5 GB HDD
150 GB BW
1 IPv4
1+ IPv6
Anywhere in US or UK that has low latency to Asia
$3 or less
@NanoG6: I'd say so. After quickpacket, hostpolar, BGSA, vps6, and alienlayer, I'm definately not paying any more than quarterly for my containers.
Well it depends, if the provider is you, @prometeus, @KuJoe, or any other well-known provider here in LET, I don't mind to pay yearly
Ram: 128mb
Vswap or burst: +128mb
HD space: 4gb
Bandwidth: at least 20gb
Location: somewhere that's not already oversaturated
IPv4: 1
IPv6: 1+
Price: $20-25 Yearly
I could do OpenVZ easily on that lol. If I ever see a Xen provider doing that
little muscle in my brain says "don't make that server sitting next to you xen (although I totally could)"
lol Picture of server sitting next to me ( don't mind the fact theirs no HDD's, they are in the mail ):
Edit: also don't mind the loose cable, just plugged it in *HDD light.
Although if you can add another $10/m to that:
http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/inception-hosting-xen-pv-from-32year-in-phoenix-netherlands/
Still PV though.
Yeah right
And by the way why it seems like XEN HVM is more expensive than KVM? :-/
@nanoG6
I have no idea, I would think KVM would be worth more lol
there's some problems with kvm.... like disk io
I wouldn't say KVM has disk I/O issues.
probably cuz you're using virtio?
More than likely, Yes.
Kiloserve KVM (Virtio with CentOS 6):
I haven't try HVM so I can't compare it myself.
I have this Linux VPS with s390 platform from IBM, how do I know what virtualization they are using?
My ideal ones would be something like:
KVM or maybe Xen
10GB HDD space
512mb ram
1,5-2tb bandwidth
for $7 . I know this is ridiculous but if i see that kind of offer i know i won't pass it. I'm sure everyone would say the same.
OpenVZ
50GB
1gb ram-2GB RAM
100Gb bandwidth
$7.
Actually the chicagovps 2gb ram offer was amazing. I;m not sure how they did it but its pretty much the mother of all offer for this year.
as i said, virtio
1gb disk
16mb ram
3gb bw
$0.75 month
OpenVZ
1024mb ram
2048mb burst
150gb hdd
1tb bw
Any price that's not insanely different from the total of my 2 current boxes (13USD/month).
Any idea what my chances of finding a box like that are :P?
@liamwhithers there was chicagovps 2GB RAM for $7/month, but it was with "only" 50GB HDD.
Xen HVM
758mb ram
50gb hdd
800gb bandwidth
italy
20€/month NOT oversold
@rds100 Yeahh, I've already got the Chicago one
.. would just love a slightly bigger HDD, and maybe a tad better dl/ul speed, but other than that it's great 
I hope you didn't have some problem with our service? Is there anything I should know about?
What was wrong with quickpacket?
@vps6net: Ticket #666917. I was having some issues with lack of connectivity from our servers that I wasn't experiencing with VPS nodes. The fact that it was hosted, literally, halfway around the world may have something to do with it. That issue, combined with a change in the target market for the project that it was part of, meant that we didn't need to keep it.
My statement here was more of a statement that in the future, I'm not going to pay for a longer term of service than quarterly til I determine if the service fits my needs. It was NOT to speak poorly of VPS6's service; I was considering VPS6 for Los Angeles connectivity, since it appears that Hostitek has died.
Xen PV/HVM or KVM:
Ram: 256mb
Disk: 10gb
Bandwidth: 200gb
Located in West Coast, not routing through nlayer since it recently had some issues of connectivity with my ISP
@about $5, can be doubled if it's with peer1
Node instability and connectivity issues. The node that I was on rebooted 6 to 10 times in the month that I used their service. I can't imagine that there's much reason for continual reboots on OpenVZ. I've figured out how to keep our own VPS nodes up, even with vswap, so it doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling when I'm on a host where there isn't the same level of attention.
Regarding their connectivity issues, it was similar to my earlier post where I would notice timeouts where other monitored systems did not match timeouts.
This was during a period where I was culling the less-viable nodes, and it was on the chopping block.
I will say that they had some pretty awesome support; after I submitted my cancellation request, they opened a support ticket with me and we discussed the issues I had encountered and they seemed to have genuine concern.
Before anyone else asks
-Hostpolar: 6 days to replace an ethernet card in a server? Srsly? I live in a rural area, and even I can still source and install an ethernet card in a couple of hours.
-BGSA: Overpriced, support was exceptionally rude.
-Alienlayer: SLOW. Slow network, slow disk i/o. Ignored support ticket about it. I'm not doing anything exceptionally intense here, but still.
Virt: KVM
RAM: 64MB
HDD: 2GB
Bandwidth: at least 20GB on 1Mbps+
IPv4: 1
IPv6: 1+ (Depending on location I can live with IPv4 only / setup my own tunnel)
Location: Any country that isn't overpopulated with cheap VPS providers
Price: $6/quarter
Other requirements: Ability to run IRC servers/services MUST be allowed.
Yep :P However, we never get exactly what we want. Here is my ideal plan:
512 ram
burst/vswap 128-512 (i dont use that, but if something gets out of hand I need a bit of space till I fix it)
20+ GB
CPU 1 2000-3000
BW 3 TB+
5 $ for the minimal version.
Oh, and OpenVZ...
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