[arch-general] VPS hosting with Arch
Hi all! I am looking for hosting that support Arch. Most probably this will be a VPS hosting (because of price), so official Arch Linux support is required. So far the list include: http://www.slicehost.com/ http://vpslink.com/ (a subsidiary of http://www.spry.com/) http://www.vpsville.com/arch-vps (also .co.uk and .co.ca) http://www.linode.com/ http://lylix.net/ https://www.sevenl.net/ (they have donated a server for Arch, and provide a dedicated hosting with Arch too) If there is someone who has experience with these providers - I would be very thankful for information. Also if someone knows about other providers that could join the list - let me know. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
Hello Roman, I have a VPS with ArchLinux running. My Hoster is http://goekal-it.de/ and 'till now, I had not any problems (despite the dumbs ssh-login-error I wrote wonce a while). I can't say very much about their performance, cause I use this system mainly as "playarea" and I don't have any critical content on it. Pricing is ok. Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com>:
Hi all!
I am looking for hosting that support Arch. Most probably this will be a VPS hosting (because of price), so official Arch Linux support is required.
So far the list include: http://www.slicehost.com/ http://vpslink.com/ (a subsidiary of http://www.spry.com/) http://www.vpsville.com/arch-vps (also .co.uk and .co.ca) http://www.linode.com/ http://lylix.net/ https://www.sevenl.net/ (they have donated a server for Arch, and provide a dedicated hosting with Arch too)
If there is someone who has experience with these providers - I would be very thankful for information.
Also if someone knows about other providers that could join the list - let me know.
-- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. Mast und Schotbruch mit dem http://segelsport-blog.de.
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all!
I am looking for hosting that support Arch. Most probably this will be a VPS hosting (because of price), so official Arch Linux support is required.
So far the list include: http://www.slicehost.com/ http://vpslink.com/ (a subsidiary of http://www.spry.com/) http://www.vpsville.com/arch-vps (also .co.uk and .co.ca) http://www.linode.com/ http://lylix.net/ https://www.sevenl.net/ (they have donated a server for Arch, and provide a dedicated hosting with Arch too)
If there is someone who has experience with these providers - I would be very thankful for information.
Also if someone knows about other providers that could join the list - let me know.
-- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
I've been managing a client's Linode 360 (running Arch) for the past 8 months or so. I can honestly say that they provide an excellent, very stable and packed with features [1], service. I've never had any issues with their Arch template either and they also made an Arch 2009.02 template available for installation recently. I've heard good things about Slicehost as well, but I don't have any personal experience with them. ---- http://www.linode.com/features.cfm
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all!
I am looking for hosting that support Arch. Most probably this will be a VPS hosting (because of price), so official Arch Linux support is required.
So far the list include: http://www.slicehost.com/ http://vpslink.com/ (a subsidiary of http://www.spry.com/) http://www.vpsville.com/arch-vps (also .co.uk and .co.ca) http://www.linode.com/ http://lylix.net/ https://www.sevenl.net/ (they have donated a server for Arch, and provide a dedicated hosting with Arch too)
If there is someone who has experience with these providers - I would be very thankful for information.
Also if someone knows about other providers that could join the list - let me know.
-- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
I've been managing a client's Linode 360 (running Arch) for the past 8 months or so. I can honestly say that they provide an excellent, very stable and packed with features [1], service. I've never had any issues with their Arch template either and they also made an Arch 2009.02 template available for installation recently.
I've heard good things about Slicehost as well, but I don't have any personal experience with them.
I use slicehost and haven't had any issues. Their over-the-intertubes recovery console is great. Aside, though, I believe Linode is just slightly more for your money though
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
I use slicehost and haven't had any issues. Their over-the-intertubes recovery console is great.
Aside, though, I believe Linode is just slightly more for your money though
+1 for slicehost, running Arch on mine and have had absolutely no issue with it. Well worth the money. -- Callan Barrett
hmmmmm I use https://www.sevenl.net/all-dedicated-servers It's not a VPS, it's a dedicated private server. Running Arch. I use it for archlinux.me and others, costs about $55 month. I get the whole machine this way ;) Crouse. On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
I use slicehost and haven't had any issues. Their over-the-intertubes recovery console is great.
Aside, though, I believe Linode is just slightly more for your money though
+1 for slicehost, running Arch on mine and have had absolutely no issue with it. Well worth the money.
-- Callan Barrett
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 04:09:01PM +0300, Roman Kyrylych wrote:
Hi all!
I am looking for hosting that support Arch. Most probably this will be a VPS hosting (because of price), so official Arch Linux support is required.
So far the list include: http://www.slicehost.com/ http://vpslink.com/ (a subsidiary of http://www.spry.com/) http://www.vpsville.com/arch-vps (also .co.uk and .co.ca) http://www.linode.com/ http://lylix.net/ https://www.sevenl.net/ (they have donated a server for Arch, and provide a dedicated hosting with Arch too)
If there is someone who has experience with these providers - I would be very thankful for information.
Also if someone knows about other providers that could join the list - let me know.
-- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
I highly recommend Slicehost. I've used them to host various Arch servers for the past year and a half or so, and I've never had a problem. $20 US a month for a 256mb slice isn't that bad either - especially if you're running Arch. :) Corin
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:38, Crouse <crouse@archlinux.us> wrote:
hmmmmm I use
https://www.sevenl.net/all-dedicated-servers
It's not a VPS, it's a dedicated private server. Running Arch. I use it for archlinux.me and others, costs about $55 month. I get the whole machine this way ;)
Crouse.
Arch-games uses SevenL too. Haven't had any issues with them, and their connection is super fast.
The issues i've had were hardware related, and sevenl was great about them. I really have no complaints,and would/will use them again. I've talked to them on the phone and dealt via email both, every time they were very courteous and helpful. I've dealt with alot of hosting companies before, and had several different dedicated servers with different hosts, and sevenl has been so far one of the best. I had an account with slicehost before as well, i did not like the way the kernel updates were handled, so elected not to continue using them, however they were not bad to work with. For my money, i have to say sevenl is probably the best bang for the buck. Crouse On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Daenyth Blank <daenyth+arch@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:38, Crouse <crouse@archlinux.us> wrote:
hmmmmm I use
https://www.sevenl.net/all-dedicated-servers
It's not a VPS, it's a dedicated private server. Running Arch. I use it for archlinux.me and others, costs about $55 month. I get the whole machine this way ;)
Crouse.
Arch-games uses SevenL too. Haven't had any issues with them, and their connection is super fast.
Le Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:10:15 -0500, Crouse <crouse@archlinux.us> a écrit :
I had an account with slicehost before as well, i did not like the way the kernel updates were handled, so elected not to continue using them, however they were not bad to work with.
They have just changed that! http://www.slicehost.com/articles/2009/9/22/kernels-in-the-slicemanager I use SliceHost too and I'm as happy as I could be.
Well, that's leaps and bounds better than it was before ;) Very good to know, thank you for mentioning that. Crouse On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Pierre Chapuis <catwell@archlinux.us> wrote:
Le Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:10:15 -0500, Crouse <crouse@archlinux.us> a écrit :
I had an account with slicehost before as well, i did not like the way the kernel updates were handled, so elected not to continue using them, however they were not bad to work with.
They have just changed that! http://www.slicehost.com/articles/2009/9/22/kernels-in-the-slicemanager
I use SliceHost too and I'm as happy as I could be.
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 16:09, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all!
I am looking for hosting that support Arch. Most probably this will be a VPS hosting (because of price), so official Arch Linux support is required.
So far the list include: http://www.slicehost.com/ http://vpslink.com/ (a subsidiary of http://www.spry.com/) http://www.vpsville.com/arch-vps (also .co.uk and .co.ca) http://www.linode.com/ http://lylix.net/ https://www.sevenl.net/ (they have donated a server for Arch, and provide a dedicated hosting with Arch too)
If there is someone who has experience with these providers - I would be very thankful for information.
Also if someone knows about other providers that could join the list - let me know.
Thanks everyone for comments! So here are my preliminary thoughts: * Linode offers more (esp. RAM) than Slicehost and others for 20$, and they even provide 64-bit 2.6.30.5 Xen kernel (and even more - allow using a custom kernel with PV-GRUB). * Lylix and SevenL offers less than others in 20-25$ price range. * VPSLink and VPSVille start from 8$ (64M enough for a homepage?). * VPSVille has a datacenter in the UK, which gives me roughly twice lower ping delays than Canada/USA. Anyone knows other good providers in EU? * Found an interesting provider: http://openhosting.com/ which uses KVM and has an interesting pricing scheme. I hope to get things ready for deployment around December-January. Until then I'm close to start with VPSVille UK and use its 8$ plan as a sandbox. When demands for a hosting will rise I may move to Linode. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 01:38:15AM +0300, Roman Kyrylych wrote:
* Found an interesting provider: http://openhosting.com/ which uses KVM and has an interesting pricing scheme.
I hope to get things ready for deployment around December-January. Until then I'm close to start with VPSVille UK and use its 8$ plan as a sandbox. When demands for a hosting will rise I may move to Linode.
-- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич) Thank you for the openhosting link . They only charge for the bandwidth used and that's cool .
I contacted VPSVille yesterday wondering what arch(s) do they support .They have both 32bit & 64bit kernels but unlike Debian Ubuntu and CentOS , they only offer i686 Arch templates (and that piece of info took the support people sometime to figure out!!) I wish Arch was a choice in serverpronto.com offerings .
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 08:31, <Nezmer@allurelinux.org> wrote:
Thank you for the openhosting link . They only charge for the bandwidth used and that's cool .
They also charge for RAM and HDD used (RAM is the most expensive). The interesting thing is that they use KVM, which is quite rare yet (found only a couple of other smaller providers that use KVM too). Arch's standard kernel runs in paravirtualized mode in KVM which is nice. With the active development of virtio-based drivers and RedHat going to provide an enterprise KVM-based platform I think KVM will become more popular in the future.
I contacted VPSVille yesterday wondering what arch(s) do they support .They have both 32bit & 64bit kernels but unlike Debian Ubuntu and CentOS , they only offer i686 Arch templates (and that piece of info took the support people sometime to figure out!!)
oh, thanks for the info.
I wish Arch was a choice in serverpronto.com offerings .
Hm, "The World’s Most Affordable Dedicated Server"... They even have 5$ promo server. :-) While thinking about it - it is possible to install Arch on any system (so any provider can be chosen), but that requires more work: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_From_Existing_Linux Xen: http://wiki.slicehost.com/doku.php?id=installing_an_arbitrary_linux_distro_o... OpenVZ: http://wiki.openvz.org/Archlinux_Template_creation -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 01:38, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 16:09, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all!
I am looking for hosting that support Arch. Most probably this will be a VPS hosting (because of price), so official Arch Linux support is required.
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I hope to get things ready for deployment around December-January. Until then I'm close to start with VPSVille UK and use its 8$ plan as a sandbox. When demands for a hosting will rise I may move to Linode.
So, here's my experience with VPSVille UK: * the registration is ultrafast, I paid with PayPal and got the account in a minute * root access via ssh is allowed but the machine is initially stopped * there are some .pacnew/.pacsave files in /etc * there is an empty /fastboot directory * installed packages include base, base-devel groups, openssh and vim (vim brings some x11 libs, python and ruby) * package versions are from 2009-02-18 * rc.conf has: HARDWARECLOCK="localtime" TIMEZONE="Canada/Pacific" (thus the date is invalid) . . . DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond sshd) . . . lo="lo 127.0.0.1" INTERFACES=( "lo" "venet0" "venet0_0" "venet0_0" ) venet0="venet0 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.255 broadcast 0.0.0.0" rt_venet0="-net <ip> netmask 255.255.255.255 dev venet0" rt_default="default gw <ip>" ROUTES=( "rt_venet0" "rt_default" ) venet0_0="venet0:0 <ip> netmask 255.255.255.255 broadcast 0.0.0.0" * more info: # uname -a Linux <hostname> 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5.028stab064.7 #1 SMP Wed Aug 26 15:47:17 MSD 2009 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux # ls /dev console fd initctl null pts shm stdin tty zero core full log ptmx random stderr stdout urandom # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on none 5.9G 0 5.9G 0% /dev/shm # free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 65536 8956 56580 0 0 0 -/+ buffers/cache: 8956 56580 Swap: 0 0 0 Will be playing with it this weekend. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
I logged into sevenl to get stats and exact info for it. This is my sevenl server: 2009-09-01 2009-09 Dedicated Server Service Charge $56.63 USD - Series: Celeron BasicLE - CPU: Intel Celeron 1.7Ghz - RAM1: 1GB RAM - RAM2: 1GB RAM - HDD: 250GB SATA Hard Drive - Bandwidth: 750GB Monthly Data Transfer - IP: 1 IP Address - OS: Arch Linux My actual processor is 2.8ghz, because of the issues I had, sevenl just upgraded the machine to 2.8 for me. Can't beat that :) Again, the issues i had were dealt with very professionally, and very quickly. I was/am very pleased with their services, and would use them again for new clients if I need another server. On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:53 AM, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 01:38, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 16:09, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all!
I am looking for hosting that support Arch. Most probably this will be a VPS hosting (because of price), so official Arch Linux support is required.
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I hope to get things ready for deployment around December-January. Until then I'm close to start with VPSVille UK and use its 8$ plan as a sandbox. When demands for a hosting will rise I may move to Linode.
So, here's my experience with VPSVille UK: * the registration is ultrafast, I paid with PayPal and got the account in a minute * root access via ssh is allowed but the machine is initially stopped * there are some .pacnew/.pacsave files in /etc * there is an empty /fastboot directory * installed packages include base, base-devel groups, openssh and vim (vim brings some x11 libs, python and ruby) * package versions are from 2009-02-18 * rc.conf has: HARDWARECLOCK="localtime" TIMEZONE="Canada/Pacific" (thus the date is invalid) . . . DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond sshd) . . . lo="lo 127.0.0.1" INTERFACES=( "lo" "venet0" "venet0_0" "venet0_0" ) venet0="venet0 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.255 broadcast 0.0.0.0" rt_venet0="-net <ip> netmask 255.255.255.255 dev venet0" rt_default="default gw <ip>" ROUTES=( "rt_venet0" "rt_default" ) venet0_0="venet0:0 <ip> netmask 255.255.255.255 broadcast 0.0.0.0"
* more info: # uname -a Linux <hostname> 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5.028stab064.7 #1 SMP Wed Aug 26 15:47:17 MSD 2009 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux # ls /dev console fd initctl null pts shm stdin tty zero core full log ptmx random stderr stdout urandom # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on none 5.9G 0 5.9G 0% /dev/shm # free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 65536 8956 56580 0 0 0 -/+ buffers/cache: 8956 56580 Swap: 0 0 0
Will be playing with it this weekend.
-- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:53, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 01:38, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 16:09, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all!
I am looking for hosting that support Arch. Most probably this will be a VPS hosting (because of price), so official Arch Linux support is required.
[skipped]
I hope to get things ready for deployment around December-January. Until then I'm close to start with VPSVille UK and use its 8$ plan as a sandbox. When demands for a hosting will rise I may move to Linode.
So, here's my experience with VPSVille UK:
[skipped] More experience: * downloaded files from ftp.archlinux.org at ~40-70 MB/s * the VPS is running under OpenVZ * the control panel is primitive * it is possible to do some advanced things with it though, like creating TAP/TUN or FUSE devices * multiple backup snapshots are not possible * only direct SSH connection is possible (i.e. no web terminal) * no rescue environment available * for some reason the time was broken even after I fixed rc.conf and rebooted, so I replaced /etc/localtime manually (cannot confirm if this works - see the end of the message) * Arch Linux template is of bad quality: besides .pac* files in /etc I mentioned earlier it also has a typo in hosts.allow that results in ssh access denied after system update, and the worst - the local pacman database is broken (specifically libarchive and pacman package entries) and to update the system you have to temporary disable SyncFirst in pacman.conf otherwise pacman won't update itself due to false file conflicts (--force will have no effect due to SyncFirst); all this because it was updated from 0.8. I've complained on the forums, will see if they will update the template (obviously I've fixed the system, but it would be nice to have a correctly built template for new installs so users won't have to spent their time on fixing these problems). And yesterday I started getting errors about inability to allocate PTY when trying to login via ssh, so I cannot login anymore. Though I'm not sure it the problem is on their side, or it's somehow caused by Arch update (udev, maybe?). Their support responds quickly though. I tried only forum so far, now filed a ticket in their support system. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 16:09, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
I am looking for hosting that support Arch. Most probably this will be a VPS hosting (because of price) so official Arch Linux support is required.
I have 3 Arch VPS' with Linode. They have been excellent, good community, price and support.
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Phillip Smith <arch-general@fukawi2.nl> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 16:09, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
I am looking for hosting that support Arch. Most probably this will be a VPS hosting (because of price) so official Arch Linux support is required.
I have 3 Arch VPS' with Linode. They have been excellent, good community, price and support.
Check out slicehost.com <--- they support Arch and they are proper VPS. I have tried Linode & VPSVille and neither of them compare to Slicehost. Plug over. -- Dave ------------- root@crankyadmin.net cranky@archlinux.us
Roman Kyrylych wrote:
And yesterday I started getting errors about inability to allocate PTY when trying to login via ssh, so I cannot login anymore. Though I'm not sure it the problem is on their side, or it's somehow caused by Arch update (udev, maybe?).
My vps runs on xen and this udev update http://www.archlinux.org/news/457/ killed my arch vps too. But my provider temporally replaced the Arch Kernel with a newer Debian Kernel so i could compile a new Kernel with Xen support.
2009/10/6 Sebastian Köhler <sebkoehler@whoami.org.uk>:
Roman Kyrylych wrote: > And yesterday I started getting errors about inability to allocate PTY
when trying to login via ssh, so I cannot login anymore. Though I'm not sure it the problem is on their side, or it's somehow caused by Arch update (udev, maybe?).
Got a reply from support very quickly: "Unfortunately some update you installed on Arch has broken this. I've recreated the devices for you and the script will now work from our control panel as well."
My vps runs on xen and this udev update http://www.archlinux.org/news/457/ killed my arch vps too.
But my provider temporally replaced the Arch Kernel with a newer Debian Kernel so i could compile a new Kernel with Xen support.
LOL! How could I forget about this one? :-) $ uname -a Linux x.vps8ecf0be2.com 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5.028stab064.7 #1 SMP Wed Aug 26 15:47:17 MSD 2009 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
Roman Kyrylych wrote:
LOL! How could I forget about this one? :-)
Actually I think it's kinda stupid that udev now needs 2.6.24 while the official arch xen domu kernel in the "xen" package still is 2.6.18...
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:58, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
2009/10/6 Sebastian Köhler <sebkoehler@whoami.org.uk>:
Roman Kyrylych wrote: > And yesterday I started getting errors about inability to allocate PTY
when trying to login via ssh, so I cannot login anymore. Though I'm not sure it the problem is on their side, or it's somehow caused by Arch update (udev, maybe?).
Got a reply from support very quickly: "Unfortunately some update you installed on Arch has broken this. I've recreated the devices for you and the script will now work from our control panel as well."
My vps runs on xen and this udev update http://www.archlinux.org/news/457/ killed my arch vps too.
But my provider temporally replaced the Arch Kernel with a newer Debian Kernel so i could compile a new Kernel with Xen support.
LOL! How could I forget about this one? :-)
$ uname -a Linux x.vps8ecf0be2.com 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5.028stab064.7 #1 SMP Wed Aug 26 15:47:17 MSD 2009 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
Turned out that this was not the case. The problem was caused by installing /sbin/udevadm when udev was updated (as I see the admin have renamed udevadm to _udevadm). Initscripts check for /sbin/udevadm to see if udev should be used or static /dev is in place. And because after update /sbin/udevadm was created - the /dev was broken by udev after reboot. So the solution is to remove the udev package (it's not needed anyway) and put it into IgnorePkg so it's not installed on system update. Actually, udev should probably be in optdepends of initscripts instead of depends. The support staff fixed the "Reset Terminal Devices" script to also take care of ptys. That was very quick. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 13:29, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
Turned out that this was not the case. The problem was caused by installing /sbin/udevadm when udev was updated (as I see the admin have renamed udevadm to _udevadm). Initscripts check for /sbin/udevadm to see if udev should be used or static /dev is in place. And because after update /sbin/udevadm was created - the /dev was broken by udev after reboot.
So the solution is to remove the udev package (it's not needed anyway) and put it into IgnorePkg so it's not installed on system update.
Oops, that was wrong because of the way our initscripts handle /dev. Anyway, I think I know all pitfalls of VPSVille-based VPS, so I can use it as a playground. Will definitely use some more advanced (and less cheap) hosting in the future. Linode, SliceHost and VPS.net both look as good candidates. (VPS.net does not have Arch template, but is possible to create custom template once installed). -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
2009/10/6 Sebastian Köhler <sebkoehler@whoami.org.uk>:
Roman Kyrylych wrote:
LOL! How could I forget about this one? :-)
Actually I think it's kinda stupid that udev now needs 2.6.24 while the official arch xen domu kernel in the "xen" package still is 2.6.18...
1. Remember the xen package is in [community], so although somewhat official, it isn't in [extra] 2. Xen was originally based around this hacked kernel with no obvious update path, they are working to get the pv_opts kernel to be the preferred method 3. We aren't using an Arch dom0 on our main (virtualized) Arch server, so you probably shouldn't either. :) The domU is Arch, however, running the Debian provided domU kernel. -Dan
Dan McGee schrieb:
3. We aren't using an Arch dom0 on our main (virtualized) Arch server, so you probably shouldn't either. :) The domU is Arch, however, running the Debian provided domU kernel.
That will probably change: I will test if a 2.6.31.2 pv_ops Xen kernel will work as domU.
Roman Kyrylych wrote:
Will definitely use some more advanced (and less cheap) hosting in the future. Linode, SliceHost and VPS.net both look as good candidates. (VPS.net does not have Arch template, but is possible to create custom template once installed).
You should check out some german providers. Because of the high competition on the german market vps and dedicated servers belong to the cheapest in the western hemisphere. For example the SliceHost "512 slice" costs 38$ in germany the same configuration costs around 7€ to 10€ many of those offers include unlimited traffic.
2009/10/6 Sebastian Köhler <sebkoehler@whoami.org.uk>:
Roman Kyrylych wrote:
Will definitely use some more advanced (and less cheap) hosting in the future. Linode, SliceHost and VPS.net both look as good candidates. (VPS.net does not have Arch template, but is possible to create custom template once installed).
You should check out some german providers. Because of the high competition on the german market vps and dedicated servers belong to the cheapest in the western hemisphere.
For example the SliceHost "512 slice" costs 38$ in germany the same configuration costs around 7€ to 10€ many of those offers include unlimited traffic.
Please suggest some german providers with English site & control panel. I would prefer a hosting in Europe to any hosting in USA. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
Roman Kyrylych wrote:
Please suggest some german providers with English site & control panel.
Unfortunately all providers I know of providing arch vps don't have english websites.
I would prefer a hosting in Europe to any hosting in USA.
It always depends on what you want to host :)
2009/10/6 Sebastian Köhler <sebkoehler@whoami.org.uk>:
Roman Kyrylych wrote:
Please suggest some german providers with English site & control panel.
Unfortunately all providers I know of providing arch vps don't have english websites.
Okay, then suggest some good German-speaking VPS hostings. So far only http://goekal-it.de/ was proposed. Anyone knows some other good VPS hosting in Europe? I know about http://www.intovps.com/ which has very good tariff plans, but its European datacenter is in some small town in Romania. :-/ (or should I choose it because the country's name is similar to my name? :-P). -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
Roman Kyrylych wrote:
Okay, then suggest some good German-speaking VPS hostings. So far only http://goekal-it.de/ was proposed. in addition to goekal i know <http://z-technologies.de>
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 16:09, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all!
I am looking for hosting that support Arch. Most probably this will be a VPS hosting (because of price), so official Arch Linux support is required.
So far the list include: http://www.slicehost.com/ http://vpslink.com/ (a subsidiary of http://www.spry.com/) http://www.vpsville.com/arch-vps (also .co.uk and .co.ca) http://www.linode.com/ http://lylix.net/ https://www.sevenl.net/ (they have donated a server for Arch, and provide a dedicated hosting with Arch too)
Just found that Rackspace Cloud (ex Mosso) has Arch Linux 2009.02 template too: http://www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_hosting_products/servers FTR Rackspace also owns SliceHost now. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
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