[olug] leasing dedicated linux box

[Wes Ferrel]

I'd have to second the linode vote.  I've been using them for going on a 
year and a half now.  I share a 64 with some friends, basically the same 
as what Daniel indicated.  Website, e-mail, DNS, etc.  It's amazing what 
you can do with only 64 MB of RAM and a nice, fat, redundant pipe.  
Another nice feature is the ability to add upgrades to your system on 
the fly.  Need an extra Gig of disk space for a month, login to the 
website, click a couple of links, expand your disk image, and reboot 
your node, all from the web interface.

www.linode.com, since I don't think the URL has been posted yet.

    Wes

Daniel Pfile wrote:

> I've been totally happy with linode. They're user mode linux machines, 
> so they are shared. But, as there are some nice bonuses. They're in 
> good data centers, on good hardware, which is a bonus. Having the 
> single hd go out on your $99 a month leased box sucks. He has a pretty 
> good user mode linux system going, you set up (and resize) your disks 
> and initial distro on the website, and boot your machine. Log in as 
> root and you're free to do whatever. He keeps his kernels pretty 
> current, and if you screw up your machine and make it unbootable or 
> unaccesable somehow, you can ssh into your uml's host and get console 
> access to your linux box. Good luck finding a data center that will 
> give you console management access for a cut rate.
>
> I have a 128, which is 128 meg of ram, 6 gig of disk, 50 gig transfer, 
> and shared with 19 other instances on a dual 2.6 xeon, for over a 
> year. I run gentoo on it no problem, and it handles email/web/etc for 
> myself and a few friends no problem. I only use about 10 gig of 
> transfer a month with some pretty lightly loaded web apps, so I'm not 
> exactly stressing it. For $40 a month it beats any shared hosting plan 
> if you're a geek.
>
> It looks like they've got the knock off RHEL, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, 
> RH, Mandrake and Slack at the moment.
>
> http://www.linode.com/products/linodes.cfm
>
> If you pay for a year you get 50% more disk space free. He's been 
> running that special for almost a year now. The 192 ($60/mo) or the 
> 256 ($80/mo) should work for you.
>
> Check em out,
>
> Daniel
>
> On Jan 13, 2005, at 6:36 PM, Charles Bird wrote:
>
>> Anyone have any recomendations on a somewhat cheap dedicated linux 
>> machine with more than 15gig disk space and close to the backbone?
>> I am currently using a bsd V. machine and am looking to place some of 
>> my projects as well as other ppls on one machine thats leased by just 
>> me.
>> tips, warnings and good stories are welcomed.
>> Thx yall, see ya at the install fest.
>> Charles
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