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

#11

Post by staunch » Mon, Oct 08, 2012, 11:33 PM UTC

Karunamon wrote: post #9

throwaway8908 wrote: post #7

No IRC? From https://uptano.com/aup : UPTANO's services may only be used for lawful purposes. Users may not use UPTANO's Services to engage in, foster, or promote illegal, abusive, or irresponsible behavior, including: ... Internet Relay Chat IRC servers, bots, clients, or anything related to IRC.

Not sure I appreciate the implication that IRC is somehow unlawful.

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.

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

#12

Post by staunch » Mon, Oct 08, 2012, 11:34 PM UTC

wmf wrote: post #10

That's funny; I've never seen a 7.5 GB DIMM before. And I didn't know they still make 120 GB disks.

They're ever so slightly smaller than 8 GB DIMMS! And 120 GB is the usable disk space in the Standard Small hardware profile that's being offered. :-)

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

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Post by hmottestad » Mon, Oct 08, 2012, 11:39 PM UTC

wmf wrote: post #10

That's funny; I've never seen a 7.5 GB DIMM before. And I didn't know they still make 120 GB disks.

I would assume 0.5GB is for the virtualization.

As for the drive space, maybe it's an SSD, though I'm being very hopeful. Or maybe it's a bigger disk with a bunch of images on it so you can quickly create a virtual machine without waiting for a network drive.

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

#14

Post by staunch » Mon, Oct 08, 2012, 11:41 PM UTC

hmottestad wrote: post #13

wmf wrote: post #10

That's funny; I've never seen a 7.5 GB DIMM before. And I didn't know they still make 120 GB disks.

I would assume 0.5GB is for the virtualization. As for the drive space, maybe it's an SSD, though I'm being very hopeful. Or maybe it's a bigger disk with a bunch of images on it so you can quickly create a virtual machine without waiting for a network drive.

These are 10K RPM RAID1 hard disks, but we will be rolling out SSD options in the very near future.

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

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Post by lolwutreddit » Mon, Oct 08, 2012, 11:44 PM UTC

hmottestad wrote: post #13

wmf wrote: post #10

That's funny; I've never seen a 7.5 GB DIMM before. And I didn't know they still make 120 GB disks.

I would assume 0.5GB is for the virtualization. As for the drive space, maybe it's an SSD, though I'm being very hopeful. Or maybe it's a bigger disk with a bunch of images on it so you can quickly create a virtual machine without waiting for a network drive.

My dedicated hardware was given to me instantly, and it took less than a minute to ssh into my machine. I'll take it!

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

#16

Post by barlo » Mon, Oct 08, 2012, 11:49 PM UTC

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.

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

#17

Post by dylanpyle » Mon, Oct 08, 2012, 11:50 PM UTC

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

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

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Post by pnathan » Mon, Oct 08, 2012, 11:50 PM UTC

staunch wrote: post #11

Karunamon wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure I appreciate the implication that IRC is somehow unlawful.

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?

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

#19

Post by staunch » Mon, Oct 08, 2012, 11:52 PM UTC

barlo wrote: post #16

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?

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

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Post by jauer » Mon, Oct 08, 2012, 11:55 PM UTC

pnathan wrote: post #18

staunch wrote: post #11

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?

I'd imagine anything that attracts DDoS traffic. Generally speaking you know when you are hanging out in rooms where people are willing to DDoS you to kick you offline.