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Re: Low-Cost VPS Testing

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Post by cerberusss »

Youden wrote: post #94
cerberusss wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I want a desktop. I manage my server via ssh of course, any extra graphical cruft is a liability there. > Xvfb I might, but I've tried a zillion things, and they all suck when you compare it to the ease of use that TeamViewer offers. What I also left out, is that I've already got the TeamViewer client running, because I remote into macOS and Windows.

Xvfb would give you the virtual desktop that the TeamViewer Server gives you access to. You'd still use the TeamViewer client to connect to it. Xvfb is just a way of running a graphical environment on a machine that doesn't otherwise have one.

That is... interesting. Is it maintained and packaged by the distros? It doesn't look like it. Duckduckgo gives me a bunch of old 2012-2013 results.

Re: Low-Cost VPS Testing

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Post by tyingq »

boris wrote: post #62

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…

I'm happy with OVH. But, I do agree that their support isn't always great. However, it's dirt cheap, so I adjust my expectations accordingly.

In the situation you describe, for example, it's not hard to add a new IP address in their admin panel and update DNS.

Re: Low-Cost VPS Testing

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Post by tyingq »

coleifer wrote: post #103

Why was Rasmus so concerned about reverse DNS? That's not something I'm very familiar with. Can anyone help explain?

Reverse DNS is what maps an IP address to a host name. A PTR-record type is used to store reverse DNS entries. The name of the PTR-record is the IP address with the segments in reverse order followed by ".in-addr.arpa". For example the reverse DNS entry for IP 2.3.4.5 would be stored as a PTR-record for "5.4.3.2.in-addr.arpa". That then points to "somehost.yourdomain.tld".

It's important for things like email, where the receiver can do a reverse DNS lookup to make sure your host is supposed to be sending email from "example.domain". Lacking proper reverse DNS, your outgoing email could be marked as spam. Or rejected outright for one not existing. It's also used for some forms of SPF entries (though that's discouraged).

Last, it's somewhat useful for logs if you have hosts in your domain that connect to each other. Though, usually, you're encouraged NOT to configure apache, syslogd, etc, to do reverse DNS lookups...for performance reasons.

Re: Low-Cost VPS Testing

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Post by icebraining »

fastball wrote: post #40
asdkhadsj wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, but that's mainly because I still have to manage the server running Dokku I believe? edit: For context what I was already using was manual docker on a DO box. While I recognized that Dokku would make it more seamless and easier, my issue was managing and securing the DO VM itself. I didn't see how Dokku would help that scenario

On DigitalOcean they have one-click setup for Dokku.

One-click for initial setup, but what about maintenance? I like DO, but those easy setups seem like a recipe for vulnerable machines. If it's complicated to maintain, it shouldn't be too easy to setup.

Re: Low-Cost VPS Testing

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Post by jwr »

asdkhadsj wrote: post #3

I can't wait for PaaS prices to drop. I know they'll always be relatively expensive, but I'm primarily a dev (not ops) and I don't have the time nor desire to manage my own servers securely. Heroku lately has seemed a tempting offer, assuming I can run my apps on it (Rust based) , but at $7/m for little side projects it felt.. expensive for a no user side project. They can add up. A $5/m DO box can host quite a few a…

I don't see PaaS as a realistic alternative except for the simplest of apps. One always eventually needs to tweak the web server to get things like websockets, brotli compression, fast serving of versioned immutable files, or something else. Or run several servers with vpncloud.rs between them. It's not price that is a problem, it's the lack of flexibility.

Re: Low-Cost VPS Testing

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

awill wrote: post #68
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #57

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> 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?

The worst case is probably that their "free" service has fine print that results in their lawyers handing you a large bill, probably by making it easy for you to accidentally use paid features. (Precedent: VirtualBox extensions)

Re: Low-Cost VPS Testing

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Post by indigodaddy »

olex wrote: post #84
porker wrote: post #73

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They're a provider I haven't heard of before. Following your link, what does "Billing period 6 Months" mean? Elsewhere on the page it says: "Hourly based billing. Tariff can be terminated at any time."

You pay for 6 months at a time. If you cancel, you get money back for however much you didn't use.

Yep, and if you want to pay monthly, go for a rootserver, but for those the cheapest is the 8.99EUR one I originally referenced that I have.

Re: Low-Cost VPS Testing

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Post by indigodaddy »

InvaderFizz wrote: post #75
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.

I'm quite happy with their free tier. I have two Ubuntu machines hosting various docker images. Network bandwidth seems capped at around 50mbps, but that is perfectly adequate for my needs. CPU is quite strong, it's two AMD Zen vCPUs. The compile times for a few of my containers was acceptable. Three downsides: -No reverse DNS (at least I couldn't get it to work) -No IPv6 -It's Oracle, I made sure I only used persona…

Free public (static?) IP too?
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