[arch-general] VPS hosting with Arch

[Crouse]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> [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:
> * 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)
>