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Re: Low-Cost VPS Testing

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Post by nieve »

m_b wrote: post #26

Regarding Scaleway lack of rDNS for IPv6: it's because they don't support it. Customers (like I was) asked for it many times since 2016 but it seems too hard to implement for them.

In my experience Scaleway isn't worth the risk. I had multiple weeks-long periods for different vpses (and both FreeBSD & Linux) over the course of two years where their network-mounted root disks would start throwing errors and then drop offline entirely. Worse, after one of these incidents their control panel usually wouldn't allow a reboot. I went round and round with support and the most they ever did was clear a flag for that and tell me they were experiencing network issues. I've also used Ramnode, Linode, Servercheap, Amazon, Heroku, various small local colo companies over, etc. and Scaleway was the only actively bad one.

Unexpected outages, disk corruption, and usually not even a credit when I'd been up and down for days. If you have problems like that with your infrastructure and they crop up on and off for years, you need to bring in new people and invest in infrastructure. They aren't going to.

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Post by boris »

I would recommend staying away from OVH for anything important (e.g., a mail server). While the service is fairly reliable, when things do go wrong (like an IP network that you share with others get blacklisted because one of the IPs is part of a botnet), their support is useless. They do respond and are very polite, but nothing actually gets fixed and you eventually realize they are just wearing you down hoping that you give up.

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Post by interfixus »

Happy to see Lunanode rated Really Good. My exact experience during more than three years as a completely happy customer. They don't stock any Alpine Linux, but fetching the install image and setting up is a breeze, and not once, ever, have I had an issue with any of my instances. And highly appreciated: I can clone an instance, download the qcow2 image, fiddle with it locally, upload, and put it back in production. Flexible, easy, clean, no nonsense, reliable, cheap, and absolutely recommended. Don't know about support, though, since so far I have had no cause to call them.

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Post by climb_stealth »

amanzi wrote: post #44

For those of us in NZ, there are only three providers on the list of "good" or "really good" that have a presence in Sydney: Vultr ( https://www.vultr.com/ ), Linode ( https://www.linode.com ), and VPS Server ( https://www.vpsserver.com/ ).

I have been happy with binarylane hosted in Sydney.

I tried vultr ~2 years ago and at least then they did not have their own ubuntu repository mirror. All the package manager downloads were painfully slow. Digital Ocean and binarylane mirror the repo and any package can be pulled pretty much instantly and it makes the initial setup much more pleasant.

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Post by zjra »

interfixus wrote: post #63

Happy to see Lunanode rated Really Good. My exact experience during more than three years as a completely happy customer. They don't stock any Alpine Linux, but fetching the install image and setting up is a breeze, and not once, ever, have I had an issue with any of my instances. And highly appreciated: I can clone an instance, download the qcow2 image, fiddle with it locally, upload, and put it back in production.…

chuckled a little when reading the first negative of luna was the absence of having a debian 10 template. i raised a ticket with them about this in july, and have been periodically testing new openstack releases from https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/current-10/ to see if the issue 'fixed itself' for some reason with debian 10, cloud-init takes around 6 min to raise network interfaces, which is why they haven't released a template yet. not sure if the issue is on lunas side or not.

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Post by dstaley »

ldoughty wrote: post #59
thesandlord wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Give Google Cloud Run a try. Can run any Docker container, and billing is per request. It is basically a fully managed knative. https://cloud.google.com/run My side projects all run for free. (I work for Google Cloud)

Cloud run looks cool, but doesn't seem to support databases ? Unless it supports linked containers? I like that it's a mix of AWS lambda scaling with more open environments... Though it's hard to read through the marketing... "Nearly instance availing from 1 to 1000"

Cloud Run user here. It does not support running a database as a Cloud Run service; you'd need to connect to a Cloud SQL instance. This is one area I really hope PaaS providers improve on in the future. The closest thing at the moment is Aurora Serverless on AWS, especially with their neat HTTP connection system. That being said, cold starts are even worse since they're now the start up time for your application in addition to the start up time for Aurora Serverless.

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Post by tambre »

A big caveat not mentioned for Digital Ocean is that they blackhole IPv6 email traffic. It took a while for me to figure out why it wasn't working since it wasn't documented in their documentation and there was no ICMPv6 response indicating this. Moved to Linode after that.

I wonder if the same caveat applies to other providers that have improperly implemented IPv6 by not providing a /64.

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Post by awill »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #57
exikyut wrote: post #52

Two related questions not answered in this article: - Where can I find good low-cost KVM with decent monthly bandwidth in Australia? Primarily want a remote fast Linux/VNC desktop (which will chew a lot of bandwidth), and want bandwidth left over to actually do things with. - There's no mention of Oracle's always-free cloud offerings (100GB disk, 1GB RAM, 10TB bandwidth). Interested to hear what people think of this.

> Oracle's always-free cloud offerings (100GB disk, 1GB RAM, 10TB bandwidth). Interested to hear what people think of this. It's Oracle; wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.

hm.. I looked into this. I do agree to not touch Oracle, but free is free, right? What's the worst case? They turn it off or are unreliable?

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Post by cstpdk »

dstaley wrote: post #66
ldoughty wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cloud run looks cool, but doesn't seem to support databases ? Unless it supports linked containers? I like that it's a mix of AWS lambda scaling with more open environments... Though it's hard to read through the marketing... "Nearly instance availing from 1 to 1000"

Cloud Run user here. It does not support running a database as a Cloud Run service; you'd need to connect to a Cloud SQL instance. This is one area I really hope PaaS providers improve on in the future. The closest thing at the moment is Aurora Serverless on AWS, especially with their neat HTTP connection system. That being said, cold starts are even worse since they're now the start up time for your application in a…

But, correct me if this has changed please, last i checked Cloud Run did not support private networks. So you SQL instance has to be exposed to the internet, correct?

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Post by zhte415 »

amanzi wrote: post #44

For those of us in NZ, there are only three providers on the list of "good" or "really good" that have a presence in Sydney: Vultr ( https://www.vultr.com/ ), Linode ( https://www.linode.com ), and VPS Server ( https://www.vpsserver.com/ ).

Rimuhosting has options for Auckland if interested in NZ hosting. NZD 18, which is about USD 12, for a 2G option with 15G bandwidth.
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