[HCoop-Discuss] VPS hosting

[Omry Yadan]

Sounds great.

you think the performance will be as good (or better) as current 
performance on fyodor?



ntk at hcoop.net wrote:

>> Just curious.
>> What does a VPS mean.
>> Does this mean that suppose I have 10 websites I can host them on this
>> server? Also what is the disk space and monthly GB limit.
>> Some people I know may be willing.
>>     
>
> VPS is Virtual Private Server.  Also called VDS (Dedicated) or various
> other names.  No, it's not just that you can host 10 websites on this
> server--you can already do that with your HCoop shell account.  What it
> means is that we have one big server running a Hypervisor (Xen, in this
> case) which allows us to install several operating systems in "virtual
> servers."  To each one it looks like it is a self-contained machine.  You
> get root access and are totally responsible for administering it, just as
> if it were a dedicated server.  If other servers are not utilizing the CPU
> or disk, then your server gets near-native CPU/disk performance, but you
> are guaranteed some minimum chunk of CPU time.
>
> I was thinking of installing 8 servers, with 256 M of RAM and 350MHz
> dedicated to each.  Disk space is undetermined but I think I'm going with
> 73G drives, which would be about 9 gig of disk space per person.  Monthly
> GB limit is totally undetermined as yet, since we have 5Mbits at 95
> percentile for our whole cabinet, but it would at least be in the 10s of
> gigabytes, if we bill based on total transfer.  If these specs weren't
> enough you could buy more thank one "chunk" of the servers for a more
> powerful VPS.
>
> HOWEVER, I'm not going to open this up until the rest of our base system
> is installed and running for users to move into at Peer1.  I don't want to
> distract from the attention and substantial admin work that is going into
> that.  Once we're up and running at Peer1 I can set up VPS on my new
> machine if there is enough interest in short order, either temporarily as
> my own colo machine that I "resell" as VPS to members, or as an official
> HCoop box that I am the primary admin for.
>
> -ntk
>
>
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