Virtual private servers. Cost effective?

[Scott Sinclair]

Hi Eric,

On Sat 30 Dec, 2006 at 09:59:46 -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> One company (https://www.rapidvps.com/) seems to offer 5 GB of storage
> with an insane amount of bandwidth each month (100 GB) for $10 (US, I
> presume).

These guys seem to use Virtuozzo for their VPS'. I haven't heard good things
about it, and would suggest, if you are going to get a VPS, that it be one
that is hosted on XEN (eg. www.vpsland.com) or UML (eg. www.linode.com).

That said, I have not used a VPS' powered by Virtuozzo, so others may have
differing opinions :-)

>
> For my web serving this machine would meet most of my needs. So, for a
> grand total of $144 USD/a I'd have a web server with (presumably) good
> incoming and outgoing bandwidth. I'd pay the same amount in
> electricity to run my own webserver (200 W average draw) and I'd be
> limited to the 80 K/sec outgoing rate of my ISP (ADSL - Bell Sympatico
> HSE).

A VPS would easily be able to handle what you seem to want it to do (WWW
only), as long as we aren't talking slashdot.org measurements.

>
> Have any of the sounder-denizens had experience with VPSes? Are they
> worth it or should I stick with my own "bricks and mortar" setup which
> also hosts a network file server?

The VPS' I have, running everything from Debian thru to Gentoo, work great.
They work exactly how I want them too, no complaints.


And depending on how much you are using, you may be able to allow others to
use your box, for a fee, bringing costs down. (think www hosting)

Scott Sinclair
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