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;
- Quad core processor
- RAID 1 configured HDD
The server is to be co-located at Jaring’s Secure Internet Datacenter which feature the following;
- 100Mbps port per rack
- Unmetered bandwidth
- 24 hours visit to server room
- More info of the datacenter is available here.
Xen based (or probably VMWare ESXi) virtualization for each VPS (guest OS) configured to have the following resources;
- 384Mb RAM
- 25 GB storage
- 1 fixed public IP
Why would you be interested?
- For whatever reason you need to have a proxy server
- For RnD, or whatever you call it
- Starting a small internet business
- Hosting web applications, with total flexibility and without problems with shared webhosting issues
- Just for fun
- … and for many other reason la
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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16 Responses to Cheap VPS hosting, anyone?
mypapit
September 11th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
sounds pretty good offer, how many “participants” you planned to take?
k4ml
September 11th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
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/
shakir
September 11th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
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?
k4ml
September 12th, 2008 at 9:05 am
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.
angch
September 12th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
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.
angch
September 12th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
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.
Sey
September 15th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Bro, ambil Amazon EC2 http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=201590011.
apis
September 23rd, 2008 at 4:37 pm
so…
affiq, faiq's cousin
September 28th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
please tell me about IP adress
someone threaten me that he/she can collapse my system by knowing my IP adress
sekret
October 5th, 2008 at 12:40 am
nice package..but dont have enough money to effort it..
CrusheD_LameR
October 11th, 2008 at 3:03 am
Salam bro..!
Can join u ah with this project?hehe…
Ps- How was today’s party?tak dapat datang la..ade majlis…
Titi Wangsa
October 13th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
i’m interested, where do i sign up?
Titi Wangsa
October 13th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
where do i signup?
shakir
October 19th, 2008 at 5:42 am
I’ll contact whoever expressed their interest when I am to buy the real server, which should be anytime soon.
paragasu
December 28th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
i am interested to get one. don’t forget to notify me. tq
FDR
January 4th, 2009 at 10:23 am
Please contact me as well - sounds like what I’m looking for. Thanks -