[arch-general] VPS hosting with Arch

[Roman Kyrylych]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 01:38, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 16:09, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at 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)