Rus Foster guns for the $15/year market: TechieVPS offers 128MB/10GB/1TB OVZ in London or USA West

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• rm_ IPv6 Advocate, Veteran

  April 2012 edited April 2012

  @Francisco said: Does /proc/xen exist on XEN HN's?

  I haven't personally used Xen from the host node side, but a quick googling shows that according to https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Virtualization/sect-Virtualization-Tips_and_tricks-Identifying_guest_type_and_implementation.html /proc/xen(and at least /capabilities) does exist on Dom0 (host node) too.
• quirkyquark Member

  April 2012

  @rm_ said: What I'm saying, you can not conclude the above part just from the kernel version string having "xen" alone.

  Sigh.

  

  cat /proc/xen/balloon
  Current allocation:  **1540096 kB**
  
  1540096/1048576 = 1.46875 ~ 1.47 GB
  

  Happy now?
• Francisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

  April 2012

  @liam said: I never saw the point of the prem section, but you seem to have a little mason society going their.

  I'm not a member I simply have insiders that like to forward things to me since I got a big mouth.

  Francisco
• Francisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

  April 2012

  @liam said: Interesting. Wheres this blog post Rus wrote about 'umanaged'.

  http://fsck.me.uk/index.php/what-does-an-unmanaged-provider-manage-we-dont-support-ponies/

  Seems it's from last year and it never got brought up until it hit IRC earlier in the week :P

  Francisco
• quirkyquark Member

  April 2012 edited April 2012

  All indications are this kernel is a special "Xen-aware" OVZ one, i.e. it will run on a PV or HVM domU, with pv_ops enabled. AFAIK, plain 2.6.18 does not support running as either Dom0 or DomU.
• Francisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

  April 2012

  @quirkyquark said: All indications are this kernel is a special "Xen-aware" OVZ one, i.e. it will run as a PV or HVM domU, with pv_ops enabled. AFAIK, 2.6.18 native does not support running as either Dom0 or DomU.

  FYI OVZ does post the -xen enabled kernels on their site, it's an official deal.

  Francisco
• Francisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

  April 2012

  @liam said: What a poorly written blog post which rambles on about something which I just don't get. (I can't see what his accusation/rant about you is based on)

  I think it's more just the ponies thing. It doesn't really make sense at all.

  It's quite possible he has a daughter and she's really into MLP but I dunno, I was just confused.

  Francisco
• quirkyquark Member

  April 2012

  @Francisco said: It's quite possible he has a daughter and she's really into MLP

  He does have a daughter, from the earlier blog posts, and I think he just means pony instead of ponyyyyyyy
• Wintereise Member

  April 2012

  
  root@tkyjp:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
  16384+0 records in
  16384+0 records out
  1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 43.1323 s, 24.9 MB/s
  
  
  

  This isn't even the $15 deal, but it works for now. All I use it for is vpning.
• quirkyquark Member

  April 2012

  @Francisco said: FYI OVZ does post the -xen enabled kernels on their site

  http://wiki.openvz.org/How_to_use_OpenVZ_as_a_XEN_guest_OS_(for_x86_platform)

  Good. With ponyyyyyy's blessings, I may just get one of the soon-to-be-released KVMs and a few IPs and fsck around with some not-for-profit VPS-on-VPS action

  Here's a question though: suppose all the OVZ containers on a "host" are for your own use, would there be a way to use dupemerge/hard links to save disk space when the containers are running mostly similar OSs?
• Francisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

  April 2012

  @quirkyquark said: Here's a question though: suppose all the OVZ containers on a "host" are for your own use, would there be a way to use dupemerge/hard links to save disk space when the containers are running mostly similar OSs?

  S'how virtuozzo does it.

  Francisco
• huluwa Member

  April 2012

  someone says, vps on vps, poor performance.
• cedric Member

  April 2012 edited April 2012

  @Aldryic said: I did set a temporary password of mydickburnsforyou for a particularly obnoxious client once <_<

  Love you too, Aldryic.
• Aldryic Member

  April 2012

  @cedric said: Love you too, Aldryic.

  Ahaha, oops, two clients then :P The obnoxious guy I was referring to (Jerry), was from back in our VMWare days. Dude would get super-pissed at the drop of a hat... even Fran trolled him once, setting his pass as rageragerageJERRYRAGE
• Aldryic Member

  April 2012 edited April 2012

  07:11:29 <~Aldryic> .license techievps.com
  07:11:38 <+alina> Aldryic: host refused to provide license info: invalid URL 
  or nulled (guessed http://techievps.com/whmcs-2/, supplied one refused to 
  provide license info). public WHMCS checker (http://www.whmcs.com/members/verifydomain.php) 
  reports that the domain techievps.com is authorized to use WHMCS
  
• vld Member

  April 2012 edited April 2012

  There are 2 whmcs installs, one valid in /billing:

  .check techievps.com/billing
  vld: WHMCS license 336a0845015670fc6c71 (UK2 Limited, UK-2 Limited, [email protected]) for techievps.com (domain registered on 2011-12-20)  [46.23.76.234 - Netherlands, UK2 - Ltd] is currently active. Type: Monthly Lease No Branding, valid from 2011-12-21 to 2012-05-21 (billed monthly), v5.0.3 installed in /home/techievp/public_html/billing, no addons.
  

  .check search: techie
  vld: found 2 results: WHMCS license 336a0845015670fc6c71 (russell foster, [email protected]) for techievps.com [46.23.76.234] was active on 23/03/2012 12:07. WHMCS license 336a0845015670fc6c71 (UK2 Limited, UK-2 Limited, [email protected]) for techievps.com [46.23.76.234] was active on 25/04/2012 16:16. 
  
• raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

  April 2012 edited April 2012

  @liam said: Are you his daughter? :}

  Rumor of the century. We have to find a way to get that started.

  @Francisco Dias...born Francesca F0ster.

  Thanked by 1Liam
• netomx Moderator, Veteran

  April 2012

  @Francisco said: I got a big mouth.

  and deep throat? ;D

  Thanked by 1TheHackBox