[ale] VPS hosting recommendations?

Tue Apr 9 18:49:23 EDT 2013

I didn't feel like hacking an iptables rate counter to redirect traffic the
limits out to an error page. That's good for spanking the /.'ers that keep
hitting reload (more than, say, 10 connections in 1 minute and they get
redirected to the "Site overloaded" page on a special port.). Running netop
to see what's happening then adjusting params and reHUPing apache to limit
damage is a process as well.

So's shutting off apache.

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Richard Bronosky <richard at bronosky.com>wrote:

> That is terrible solution. You get billed for bandwidth as in total data
> transferred. That option limits bandwidth as in rate of transfer. So, what
> happens is that your server is always slow, then that one time that you get
> slash-dotted you get hammered and because it is so slow they each hit
> refresh 4 times and you pay for it anyway and everyone makes fun of how
> slow your server is.
> What would be useful is a plug-in that notices when a single resource
> consumes too much bandwidth and starts serving an error.
>
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S3 using the Swype software keyboard.
> --Richard Bronosky
> On Apr 9, 2013 6:09 PM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_ratelimit.html
>>
>> Will limit the damage caused by /.
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> NOTE: it will not return the time you've wasted on /. to you
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Some great suggestions, so far.  I will also point out that I'm 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.  I'm
>>> concerned about the situation where my website gets linked on Slashdot and
>>> runs up a massive bandwidth charge before the VM melts down.  I don't have
>>> to worry about that with my current Digital Ocean account, because they
>>> have me grandfathered in with unlimited bandwidth. I'm 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 don't 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 for a long time.  It costs me
>>> roughly $5 per month for their base VM.  I've 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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>>
>>
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>> --
>> James P. Kinney III
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