[olug] leasing dedicated linux box

[Daniel Pfile]

It's fast enough you could kill your bandwidth allocation pretty 
quickly. :)

The interfaces on the machines are at least 100mb-1gb. Shared by all 
the machines on the box of course.

http://www.linode.com/products/linodes.cfm

Check out the CMR and Contention values for an idea of how many 
machines are sharing your resources with you. He says ram is never 
shared, which is good. The only thing I have a problem with is disk io, 
but it's much much better than a year ago with new work that's been 
done on UML. I think some people with overloaded machines use their 
swapfs a little too much... Overall, not bad though.

A friend of mine got himself a 64meg linode last summer after I raved 
about them, he's been happy with them as well.

-- Daniel

On Jan 17, 2005, at 10:20 PM, Adam Lassek wrote:

> Wow, Linode looks pretty cool. What kind of throughput do you get? Do
> they tier it with the packages or is it the same across the board?
>
>
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:59:20 -0600, Wes Ferrel <wferrel at ferrel.org> 
> wrote:
>> 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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