Re: [SLUG] Co-lo, UML Dedicated servers
quote who=Dan Treacy Just after some recommendations on the above probably in that order. Machines don't need to be overly powerful but reasonable traffic allowance would be good. www.linode.com - bloody fantastic - Jeff -- GUADEC 2005: May 29th-31st http://2005.guadec.org/ PHP, when it first came out, didn't really have any merits, and many claim it still doesn't, but it filled a void where a simple tool to perform a simple task was needed. - Rasmus Lerdorf -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Co-lo, UML Dedicated servers
I've got 2 UML machines around the place. one on tektonic.net and one on redwoodvirtual.com. TekTonic are the better of those two, I seem to get more available CPU. Ping time is a bit of an issue, but once connected the speed is good. Support is reasonable but nothing special. I use redwoodvirtual for my personal server. I'm on the $10/mo plan which gives me 20Gb/mo bandwidth. It's far from quick (CPU), but reliable enough (current uptime is 143 days) and capable of running apache/postfix/spamassassin/bind as long as the load isn't high. Download speed is enough to saturate my connections. Support on redwood is pretty ordinary - email them and they get back a few days later. If you're considering UML, check out www.usermodelinux.org. Click the 'Commercial' link on the right hand side of the page to get a list of a few UML providers around the place. My general experience with UML has been great. Just don't expect to run anything diskspace or memory intensive as it quickly gets expensive. Cheers, -Piers. On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 12:04 +0200, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Dan Treacy Just after some recommendations on the above probably in that order. Machines don't need to be overly powerful but reasonable traffic allowance would be good. www.linode.com - bloody fantastic - Jeff -- GUADEC 2005: May 29th-31st http://2005.guadec.org/ PHP, when it first came out, didn't really have any merits, and many claim it still doesn't, but it filled a void where a simple tool to perform a simple task was needed. - Rasmus Lerdorf -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Co-lo, UML Dedicated servers
On 6/2/05, Piers Wren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use redwoodvirtual for my personal server. I'm on the $10/mo plan which gives me 20Gb/mo bandwidth. It's far from quick (CPU), but reliable enough (current uptime is 143 days) and capable of running apache/postfix/spamassassin/bind as long as the load isn't high. Download speed is enough to saturate my connections. Support on redwood is pretty ordinary - email them and they get back a few days later. Thanks for that. I think redwoodvirtual might do just what I need for my personal domain. I am sick of the shared hosting. I'd like to control my box with a rootshell, as I am sick of the hosting firm doing changes which breaks my online gallery cause they did some to php or something similar. The price is reasonable, as long as I can run a http/email with spam protection etc.. Then I think it will do the job nicely. If you're considering UML, check out www.usermodelinux.org. Click the 'Commercial' link on the right hand side of the page to get a list of a few UML providers around the place. My general experience with UML has been great. Just don't expect to run anything diskspace or memory intensive as it quickly gets expensive. But it handles the personal domain well right? With no extra costs? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Co-lo, UML Dedicated servers
On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 07:06 +1000, Michael Fox wrote: Thanks for that. I think redwoodvirtual might do just what I need for my personal domain. I am sick of the shared hosting. I'd like to control my box with a rootshell, as I am sick of the hosting firm doing changes which breaks my online gallery cause they did some to php or something similar. The price is reasonable, as long as I can run a http/email with spam protection etc.. Then I think it will do the job nicely. I'm currently running apache/postfix/spamassassin/bind/mysql/wu-imapd. You have to be careful in setting up spamassassin to get its memory footprint down, ie, don't run it through procmail ;) Since you mentioned you'll be using it for an online gallery, I have linpha (linpha.sf.net) running on mine indexing about 1gig of photos and it works. If you're on a quick connection you can notice that it's slow in rendering pages, but when I put up my wedding pics and everyone was hitting it to check those out there was no stability issues. But it handles the personal domain well right? With no extra costs? Correct. I spent US$100 for 12 months hosting and haven't had to spend a dorrar more. The only thing I would consider changing next time is to go for more than 64meg RAM as that has been the main thing limiting me doing Cool Stuff. -Piers. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Co-lo, UML Dedicated servers
Morning Sluggers, Just after some recommendations on the above probably in that order. Machines don't need to be overly powerful but reasonable traffic allowance would be good. The Co-lo would need to be located in sydney the others I'm fairly ambivalent about (but if O/S a nice exchange rate helps) After experiences both good and bad. Thanks, Dan. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Co-lo, UML Dedicated servers
Just after some recommendations on the above probably in that order. Machines don't need to be overly powerful but reasonable traffic allowance would be good. The Co-lo would need to be located in sydney the others I'm fairly ambivalent about (but if O/S a nice exchange rate helps) All OpenSkills services are run on UML servers hosted by: http://www.bytemark.co.uk/index.html Which has worked out very well for us. HTH, Bruce -- Make the most of your skills - with OpenSkills http://www.openskills.org/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
