Due to some serious problems with shared webhosting, as I blogged here and here, I’m now seriously considering to self-host all my sites.
With this I wish to setup a server for this purpose, and host it in a datacentre. To make it financially and practically feasible, I plan to provide what’s so called Virtual Private Server (VPS) by using whether Xen or VMWare ESXi at the server to whoever interested.
Details of the plan are as the following;
The server should have the following minimum specification;
The server is to be co-located at Jaring’s Secure Internet Datacenter which feature the following;
Xen based (or probably VMWare ESXi) virtualization for each VPS (guest OS) configured to have the following resources;
Why would you be interested?
Depending on the number of "participant", monthly commitment is estimated to be RM85 per VPS hosting, and is open for discussion.
So, are you in?
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17 Comments on this post
Leave a Commentsounds pretty good offer, how many “participants” you planned to take?
Comment left on 9.11.2008 by mypapit
I’d pay slicehost USD20/month (+ USD5 for backup) for their excellent Xen based VPS hosting so I would be interested in anything below RM100 hosted locally. Your plan 768MB per guess I think a little bit too much for some ‘cheap’ vps.
My site, which quite busy with an average 50-100 users at a particular time are doing just well on slicehost 256 plan (running nginx proxied to apache at the back). I don’t know about VMWare but try to avoid Virtuozzo/openvz based solution as they really suck for high performance websites based on my experience.
http://www.slicehost.com/
Comment left on 9.11.2008 by k4ml
Mypapit:
There are few rackspace available, and so I guess I’ll just install more (or/and bigger) servers to cater the request, and with it “monthly commitment” per “participant” could further be reduced.
k4ml:
Whatever mentioned in the blog post is just a plan, and suggestions are warmly welcomed, be it spec-wise, or on what i termed “monthly commitment”.
Thanks for the suggestions, if there a request for it, I’ll probably provide few more packages. Any further suggestions on this?
Comment left on 9.11.2008 by shakir
All my ideas can be found on the slicehost plan
They are the best so far but I know trying to match what they have done is too ambitious. Just start small but toward that direction.
Comment left on 9.12.2008 by k4ml
Watch out for their IPs package. They use up 5 for… silly reasons. So you’re left with the remainder as the usable ones. e.g. 8 IPs = 3 IPs usable.
We have some servers there, as well as manage other’s servers there. Other than that fiasco above, very happy with them.
Comment left on 9.12.2008 by angch
Re: Xen or VMware. It’s a matter of management, IMHO. Xen offers better performance for supported platforms (love it!), but unlike slicehost, management and delegation of management is less friendly. vmware, esp. 2.0rc, is sometimes flaky and eats resources for the management console, but has excellent permission control (love it). And snapshots. Snapshots are just a single click operation in vmware.
And yes, we have been using vmware for production, carefully.
Comment left on 9.12.2008 by angch
Bro, ambil Amazon EC2 http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=201590011.
Comment left on 9.15.2008 by Sey
so…
Comment left on 9.23.2008 by apis
please tell me about IP adress
someone threaten me that he/she can collapse my system by knowing my IP adress
Comment left on 9.28.2008 by affiq, faiq’s cousin
nice package..but dont have enough money to effort it..
Comment left on 10.5.2008 by sekret
Salam bro..!
Can join u ah with this project?hehe…
Ps- How was today’s party?tak dapat datang la..ade majlis…
Comment left on 10.11.2008 by CrusheD_LameR
i’m interested, where do i sign up?
Comment left on 10.13.2008 by Titi Wangsa
where do i signup?
Comment left on 10.13.2008 by Titi Wangsa
I’ll contact whoever expressed their interest when I am to buy the real server, which should be anytime soon.
Comment left on 10.19.2008 by shakir
i am interested to get one. don’t forget to notify me. tq
Comment left on 12.28.2008 by paragasu
Please contact me as well – sounds like what I’m looking for. Thanks -
Comment left on 1.4.2009 by FDR
Hey bro,
Drop me a note when you are ready !
Comment left on 2.22.2009 by CC