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Re: Offer HN: free dedicated server for October on Uptano. LIMIT REACHED

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I'm getting a "limit reached" message. I guess that's it then?

Sorry about that. Updated the title. I have been increasing the limit repeatedly to make room for more people, but it looks like there's going to be far more than I can allow in right now ;-)

I hope to offer something to everyone that signed up now but didn't make it in this time. Thanks for checking it out.

Re: Offer HN: free dedicated server for October on Uptano. LIMIT REACHED

#22
I am TAing a course on computer security this quarter, and was just looking for a hosting provider to set up a CTF server for the students to play around with. I would need the hosting for November and the first week of December as well. Could I get this promo extended that long?

Re: Offer HN: free dedicated server for October on Uptano. LIMIT REACHED

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hah! Me neither. Updated. The idea was only to prohibit public IRC uses, since they tend to attract the naughty people. Running your own private IRC stuff is fine. I've been on IRC for ~15 years myself.

What do you mean, public IRC uses?

Some people run private IRC servers for their company/friends and that's something we want to allow. We just want to prohibit public IRC servers/clients/bots because they tend to be a magnet for network/server attacks.

Re: Offer HN: free dedicated server for October on Uptano. LIMIT REACHED

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I am TAing a course on computer security this quarter, and was just looking for a hosting provider to set up a CTF server for the students to play around with. I would need the hosting for November and the first week of December as well. Could I get this promo extended that long?

This one is for October. Try sending me an email (jake@uptano.com) in November and I'll try to help you out.

Re: Offer HN: free dedicated server for October on Uptano. LIMIT REACHED

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Why limit the number of VMs, rather than just have it limited directly by memory? For example, why can't I have three instances with 2gb of memory and two with 768mb? It would make it pull the trigger.

Larger hardware profiles will have higher server limits. These are the "Standard Small" hardware profile, so splitting it up into 4 servers seems sufficient for most people. How many would you want to run on this hardware? 5?

I'd personally go as high as 6-8 in some scenarios. You can do a good bit with 512mb of memory of it's only doing a single task. Sometimes it's nice to keep things separated and compartmentalized.

Re: Offer HN: free dedicated server for October on Uptano. LIMIT REACHED

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Larger hardware profiles will have higher server limits. These are the "Standard Small" hardware profile, so splitting it up into 4 servers seems sufficient for most people. How many would you want to run on this hardware? 5?

I'd personally go as high as 6-8 in some scenarios. You can do a good bit with 512mb of memory of it's only doing a single task. Sometimes it's nice to keep things separated and compartmentalized.

For larger hardware profiles the limit will definitely be higher. Current plans are for Standard Medium and Standard Large to be 6 and 8, respectively. So far no one seems to need more that that. Thanks for the feedback.
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