[TriLUG] recommendations for on-line Linux VM

[Scott Blaydes via TriLUG]

Now I very opinionated about this. Worked in the web hosting industry
for a bit.

One big question is, will you be hosting email on the the VPS/VM?

If yes, it narrows down who you can use. Digital Ocean, OVH, and
Hetzner don't have healthy IP reputations. 

Linode works well, but does have some bad IPs too. It is a roll of the
dice as to how great the IP you will get.

If you will never run a mail server from it, I still caution you from
using OVH, Hetzner, and Digital Ocean. Their abuse staff seems to be
backed up and it makes for a bad network citizen. Linode, Vultr, and
ARP Networks all make good VPS/VMs for general use.

Now I have two bare metal servers that I section up into VPSes, using
Proxmox. Those two are through Wholesale Internet/Nocix. Been happy
with them, but it is a bit different than what you are asking for.

Only been here since July, but was looking into renting half a rack
putting a few servers in it. I haven't shopped a lot, but looking at
$600-800 from TierPoint. Anyone interested in going in on half a rack?

I could go on more, but I am tired of typing.

Feel free to email me if you want to discuss off list...or argue on
list, I don't care.

Thank you,
Scott Blaydes

On Tue, 2025-02-11 at 18:07 -0500, Jos Purvis via TriLUG wrote:
> Seconding the suggestion for Hetzner: I'm using their small cloud
> instances to host various websites and tools and they've been
> terrific. Very set-it-and-forget-it when it comes to setup, and a
> decent array of choices for OS as well.
> 
> If you want something more than that, they also sell their older
> cloud-hosting servers as colo boxes, so you can get a relatively
> powerful server already in their datacenter for a fraction of cost
> with full console/root access to install whatever.
> 
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2025, at 16:22, Reid Thompson via TriLUG wrote:
> > https://www.hetzner.com/webhosting/
> > 
> > Cheapest $2 month postgresql or mysql. Etc
> > https://www.hetzner.com/webhosting/level-1/
> > 
> > On Tue, Feb 11, 2025, 15:34 Stephen Wiley via TriLUG
> > <trilug at trilug.org>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > I have a Linode VM and used Digital ocean in college. They
> > > definitely
> > > sell VMs (that's what "droplets" are on Ditigal ocean, it's just
> > > a KVM
> > > instance. IIRC you upload your public ssh key via the web GUI
> > > when you
> > > create the machine.)
> > > 
> > > They're both great providers. I'm using Linode currently.
> > > 
> > > You're right though, their website is surprisingly poorly
> > > designed. I
> > > haven't visited it in years and remember shopping being much more
> > > straightforward. The "shared CPU compute" is what you're looking
> > > for.
> > > Here's the URL with that:
> > > https://www.linode.com/pricing/#row--compute
> > > The anchor may be wrong so double check the heading you're
> > > looking at.
> > > 
> > > Both should be about the same price. The $5/month one on either
> > > will be
> > > plenty for what you want to do and at that price point you're
> > > approaching the cost of a non-.com domain name.
> > > 
> > > --Stephen
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 08:05:57PM +0000, Joseph Mack NA3T via
> > > TriLUG
> > > wrote:
> > > > I want a Linux machine on-line, that I can logon at the command
> > > > line,
> > > like I
> > > > do with my home machines, and pilot. I want it to run a lightly
> > > > used a
> > > > website. I also want to be able to install and remove files at
> > > > will had
> > > not
> > > > have any blocked ports.
> > > > 
> > > > I tried linode.com and digitalocean.com. Their webpages are all
> > > marketting
> > > > full of "products" and "solutions". They aren't offering VMs.
> > > > Maybe they
> > > are
> > > > but they're buried beneath marketting (digitalocean is offering
> > > droplets),
> > > > in which case I'm not their target.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks Joe
> > > > 
> > > > --
> > > > Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina
> > > > Don't upgrade a working machine - it won't work any
> > > > better - it could work worse; it may not work at all.
> > > > Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux!
> > > > 
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