[ale] VPS hosting recommendations?

Tue Apr 9 17:53:58 EDT 2013

The guys at Linode are great and I can't speak highly enough of them. 
I've got 2 Linodes that I use as VPN end-points, bastion hosts and 
Puppet master servers... I've never had a problem with network bandwidth 
overages and I can only recall one network outage in the entire time 
I've been hosting with them which was fixed extremely quickly. I pretty 
much use Linode and AWS as I've been shuttering my accounts with other 
hosting companies because of cost and/or customer service. I'm a power 
user, and if I'm calling support it's generally not a trivial issue. My 
last shared hosting web provider is losing mine, and all my consulting 
clients, bueiness as I'm moving them because of their repeated 
experience of closing tickets without resolution. I've always had quick 
responses to Linode support, on the rare ocurrance I actually needed to 
open a ticket.

On 09.04.2013 17:42, James Sumners wrote:
> From the FAQ[1]:
>
> "What if I go over my monthly network data transfer?
>
> All incoming traffic to your Linode is free.
>
> Transfer quotas are soft caps and if you go over by a few GB we
> usually wont invoice. We also send an e-mail when you reach 80% of
> your monthly quota. Transfer is pooled among all of the Linodes under
> your account. If you believe you will have overages consistently, you
> can purchase additional transfer or upgrade to the next plan level.
> Additional transfer is $0.10/GB."
>
> I bet they would be willing to work with you if you got /.ed. Theyre
> nice folks, in my experience. 
>
> But it does depend on what you really need. If you dont need, erm,
> more bare bones type system of Linode, then an OpenVZ host might
> suffice. Or you could look at what Amazon offers. 
>
> [1]
> 
> -- http://www.linode.com/faq.cfm#what-if-i-go-over-my-monthly-network-data-transfer
> [6]
> On Tuesday, April 9, 2013, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:
>
>> Some great suggestions, so far.  I will also point out that Im not
>> THAT concerned about production level stability.  I mainly use this
>> for a place to thrown up a machine or two to test some things and
>> shut them back down.  The only thing I have that is "production"
>> would be a personal website/blog that I have been playing around
>> with.  That brings me to my second concern - most of these VPS
>> providers have metered bandwidth.  Im concerned about the situation
>> where my website gets linked on Slashdot and runs up a massive
>> bandwidth charge before the VM melts down.  I dont have to worry
>> about that with my current Digital Ocean account, because they have
>> me grandfathered in with unlimited bandwidth. Im not so concerned
>> about the site staying up in a high load situation as I am having it
>> stay up and rack up a massive bill for the bandwidth consumed.
>>  Many of these companies dont make it entirely clear whether or not
>> they will just cut you off if you hit your cap or if they wi!
>>  ll start racking up charges.
>> Allen B.
>> --
>> Allen Beddingfield
>> Systems Engineer
>> The University of Alabama
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of
>> Beddingfield, Allen [allen at ua.edu]
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 3:03 PM
>> To: ale at ale.org
>> Subject: [ale] VPS hosting recommendations?
>>
>> Does anyone have any recommendations for VPS hosting providers
>> that:
>> 1.  Support OpenSUSE install images
>> 2.  Have reasonable prices
>> 3.  Do not charge huge fees for data transfer?
>>
>> I have been using digitalocean.com [1] for a long time.  It costs
>> me roughly $5 per month for their base VM.  Ive been a customer
>> long enough to be grandfathered in with unlimited data transfer.
>>  However, they recently dropped OpenSUSE support/removed the
>> OpenSUSE install images.  I contacted them about adding them back,
>> and they are not willing to.  I will hold onto my account, since
>> the price is so low and they still support Arch.
>> However, I want to find a place where I can run OpenSUSE in a
>> VPS/cloud setup for a low price.
>>
>> Anyone have any recommendations?
>>
>> --
>> Allen Beddingfield
>> Systems Engineer
>> The University of Alabama
>>
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> --
> James Sumners
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