[Bradford] VPS (cheap linux servers)

[Oliver Burkill]

lowendbox is an excellent resource.
My recommendation for a really good service would be bytemark
Also my employer Webfusion sells VPS's I sit next to the VPS support
team and would be happy to help with any issue should anyone have a
webfusion VPS.

If any bradlug people want something temporarily to try an idea then
message me, I may be able to set you something up on my testing
server. Similarly FTP accounts or web hosting accounts. I may need to
reformat the whole server at any time so it can only be for messing
about with.


On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Kriss at XIXs.com <Kriss at xixs.com> wrote:
> Since there was some talk about it on friday I figured I would mail
> some useful links.
>
> http://www.lowendbox.com/
>
> A blog that posts deals on cheap boxes, you get root access a linux
> install so can do whatever you like with it. Sometimes the providers
> (mostly small) will go boom, so beware, keep backups and remember you
> get what you pay for.
>
> I actually have a cunning plan to setup a small distributed network of
> cheap VPS nodes to provide a service that due to its inhomogeneous
> nature will pretty much stay up no matter what (and therefore beat
> amazon). This is my backup plan for the sites that I currently have
> running on googles app engine.
>
> Also some recommendations for vps boxes on places that are more
> expensive but probably more stable/ located closer so you will get
> lower latency are http://www.memset.com/dedicated-servers/virtual.php
> who I've been using for years and http://www.gandi.net/hosting/ which
> would be my second choice. These are borth XEN based which partitions
> servers at a harder/lowerlevel than OpenVZ so can be considered more
> stable with less leaking/sharing between partitions.
>
> A tiny 128mb box is actually enough to run apache/mysql/php if you
> tweak the configs a little bit to fit into low memory. Disable innodb
> on mysql (its not used by default and this saves 100mb) turn keepalive
> off on apache (keepalive is a site killer when you have a small number
> of workers as each worker gets locked to a user) and reduce the number
> of apache workers down to 8 (or any small number just remember they
> all use memory). That will run a small site just peachy until you get
> slashdotted :).
>
>
> --
> Kriss
>
> http://boot-str.appspot.com/
>
> http://www.WetGenes.com/
>
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