[olug] leasing dedicated linux box

[Terry]

Check out Lunar Gravity as well.  lunargravity.net


On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:59:54 -0600, Daniel Pfile <daniel at pfile.net> 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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