Posts Tagged vps
My State of Serving, aka VPS recap
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Personal, Sysadmin on February 12, 2015
So I wrote a bunch about VPSes a few months ago, and what I thought my future looked like with them. Well, a bunch has changed since then, and will going forward, so let’s go: Full out cloud hosting Still good for buy-as-you-need systems, still not right for my usecase. Other than reading about price […]
My state of VPSes
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Personal, Sysadmin on November 2, 2014
The VPS market is really really interesting to watch. Maybe it’s just me, but the idea of being able to get a year of a decent system for the price of a pizza is fascinating – and somewhat dangerous to my wallet. At my peak, I had 4 VPSes running at the same time – and […]
TF2 on DigitalOcean
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Sysadmin on July 20, 2014
Or how I spent 3 cents on Digital Ocean to play MvM with my friends for 2 hours. Maybe the MvM servers were having issues, but 4 different people trying to create a game didn’t work (or at least TF2 kept on saying ‘connection error’ – for everyone. So I decided to try and spin […]
VPS Playtime
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Sysadmin on September 25, 2012
So… I found a cheap VPS for me to play around with on LowEndBox after a few weeks of lurking on their site. $12/year for 256MB ‘guaranteed’ RAM, 15GB of disk space and 300GB of bandwidth. I am pleased. Except for the fact that it’s an CentOS OpenVZ instance, and I have had bad experiences […]