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What are you doing with your XVMLabs VPS?
So like many, a while ago I bought a XVMLabs VPS with 4 IP's. It was, like a few other VPS's pretty much 100% an impulse buy. I've let it idle for a while due to other life demands, but today is slow, so I thought I would ask what other's are using theirs for. With only 100GB transfer, I can't use it for a VPN. I thought about setting up my own "shared hosting" for my own purposes ... but I already have shared hosting with BuyVM and a free account from @Jeffrey, so not much purpose there (with exception of learning, which is really a good enough reason).
What are you using yours for?
Comments
Testing box.
Monitoring stuff
Serving small files
proxy check slave nodes
Fourth NS?
My 512MB one is web crawling and acts as a backup relay/entry node for a mesh network.
My 1024MB one used to monitor my network, but after a day of almost constant packet loss it is now idling. Don't know what to do with it. It might become a Piwik server over the weekend.
What program are you using? I'm assuming you mean something like UptimeRobot?
Thought about maybe experimenting with running my own NS. Wasn't sure what I would really use it for though instead of just using 8.8.8.8
Interesting. I was thinking of installing say OwnCloud or Pydio and messing around with them ...
This sounds pretty cool as well.
This is why I love LET. 5 minutes after posting and tons of great ideas to try!!
You would if NS 1-3 went down. :P 8.8.8.8 would just talk with your name servers 1-4 and cache the response.
Nope, self hosted. Observium, Smokeping and Munin
@ACaton I'm glad you're enjoying your free shared hosting account! How's VestaCP treating you?
Running observium
Unfortunately, due to other work commitments, haven't had much time to use it yet. I will let you know!!
So this just gave me a bunch of cool ideas to check out. Thanks!!!
Asia optimized VPN because they are in Quadranet LA.
I don't monitor for any packet loss, however I do notice an increase in visitors and page view after I move my test websites from their 1024MB box to another provider.
Can I running a website on XVM Labs VPS?
why not?
I didn't find it in the previous comments. I have set up a web server. it's really good.
Use it as personal VPN and personal Squid Cache Server.
proxy farm~
idling...
Monitoring, running Observium.
I use it for personal vpn, mirroring my website, and try out something interesting like control panels, cmses and so many other thing to make my time not wasted easily. In a short, it is my playground.
Honestly, nothing yet. I keeping meaning to but have had other things on my hands for a while.
I'm glad I hadn't though given my server was re-installed 16 odd days ago.
-- Edit
Ah, so I now see that they had a node die and moved us and reinstalled the OS. Shame they hadn't put that in the original email they sent out.
Webproxy
works great