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Getting started with ansible

Date/Time: May 18, 2013 @ 11:42 am, by Maarten Kossen

A common problem with managing multiple servers is keeping their configurations identical (or similar, depending on the purpose of the servers). When you set up a server (say server1), you tweak the configuration by hand and when you set up another server (server2) you do the same. But then there’s this setting you need to change on server2, which you then forget to change on server1. A different ecosystem was born.

What may also happen, is that you have to reinstall a server. Say, you’ve got your primary nameserver all set up and running for like a year, but then you want to (or have to) switch hosts. How on earth did you install that nameserver again? You probably need to start all over and google your way around. When switching hosts, this is not something you want to think about.

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EaseVPS – $3.99 512MB OpenVZ VPS in Kansas City and Scranton, PA

Tags: , , , , , Date/Time: May 18, 2013 @ 10:58 am, by Liam

Jacob, from EaseVPS, have sent in two different offers. To get the quoted prices, you will have to use the promotional code at checkout. Some of the resources listed below have been doubled compared with their normal plans.

Starter OpenVZ Plan

  • 512MB RAM
  • 1024MB Burst/vSwap
  • Fair-share 4 CPU Cores
  • 30GB Disk Space
  • 1000GB Bandwidth
  • 1 IPv4 Address
  • 100Mbit connection
  • OpenVZ/SolusVM
  • Coupon: February
  • $3.99/Month | Order Link
Small OpenVZ Plan

  • 2048MB RAM
  • 2048MB Burst/vSwap
  • Fair-share 4 CPU Cores
  • 60GB Disk Space
  • 2000GB Bandwidth
  • 1 IPv4 Address
  • 100Mbit connection
  • OpenVZ/SolusVM
  • Coupon: small2048
  • $7/Month | Order Link

EaseVPS are a registered business in the United Kingdom under “ezybyte limited”. Their domain has been registered for close to 2 years now and they have appeared on LowEndBox numerous times since 2011. IPv6 is not available at this moment, in any location and the port speed can be raised to 1Gbit upon request. Reviews on their last post were extremely mixed. At the time EaseVPS had been plagued by DDoS attacks in the UK. It would be great if current customers could let us know about their experience in the comments.
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LowEndTalk Update

Date/Time: May 17, 2013 @ 10:46 pm, by Liam

Unfortunately we were hacked for a third time. Vanilla Forums appears to have numerous exploits which the hackers took advantage of. We are now working directly with Vanilla Forums to get LowEndTalk safely and securely back online. More information will follow shortly.

LiquidHost – $20/Yr 256MB KVM in Dallas & $48/Yr 2GB OpenVZ in Seattle & LA

Tags: , , , , , Date/Time: May 16, 2013 @ 11:03 pm, by Liam

Alexander, from LiquidHost, has contacted us with two different offers. He informs us that the yearly 2GB offer is new and that they have never offered so much resources at this price point before.

2GB – Special

KVM Yearly

  • 256MB RAM
  • 1 CPU Core
  • 10GB Disk space
  • 200GB Bandwidth
  • 1 IPv4 Address
  • 100Mbit connection
  • KVM/SolusVM
  • $20/Year: Order Link
  • Location: Dallas, Texas

LiquidHost is a Bulgarian based VPS provider which has been featured numerous times before. LiquidHost can offer both offloaded MySQL and FTP storage for free to any interested customer. Upon request, LiquidHost can now assign internal IPs in Seattle for uses such as load-balancing. Traffic through these IP’s isn’t counted towards your plans monthly limit. On their last thread, LiquidHost received some good reviews. More reviews regarding LiquidHost would be appreciated.

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Armorshark – $7 Monthly 1024MB OpenVZ SSD VPS in New Jersey

Tags: , , , Date/Time: May 16, 2013 @ 4:15 pm, by Liam

Richard, from ArmorShark, has sent in two different offers located in Piscataway, New Jersey. These are the same exclusive offers we featured on their last post.

Shark 1024OVZ

  • 4 CPU Cores
  • 1024MB RAM
  • 1024MB vSwap
  • 25GB SSD Diskspace
  • 1500GB Bandwidth
  • 1Gbps Port Speed
  • 1 IPv4 Address
  • 16 IPv6 Addresses
  • OpenVZ/SolusVM
  • $7/Month - Code: LEBOVZ
  • New Jersey – Order Link
Shark 512KVM

  • 4 CPU Cores
  • 512MB RAM
  • 10 GB SSD Diskspace
  • 1500GB Bandwidth
  • 1Gbps Port Speed
  • 1 IPv4 Address
  • 16 IPv6 Addresses
  • KVM/SolusVM
  • $7/Month - Code: LEBKVM
  • New Jersey – Order Link

ArmorShark LLC as a company has been around since September 2012 but they have operated under different brands since 2010. We have featured Armorshark twice before. As mentioned above, these offers are the same that we featured in March. They’re running nodes with the E3 1245v2 CPU, 32 GB+ DDR3 ECC RAM and multiple enterprise Samsung SSDs in Raid 10. Weekly Backups are included and servers will be provisioned instantly. Reviews on their last post were mixed. If you’re a customer, how has your experience been?
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NodePop – $3/Month 256MB OpenVZ VPS in Fremont, California

Tags: , , , Date/Time: May 14, 2013 @ 10:33 pm, by Liam

Zim, from NodePop, has sent in his first ever offer for LowEndBox readers. These offers are located at the Hurricane Electric datacenter in Fremont, California and do not require a promotional code.

SM Plan

  • 256MB RAM
  • 1 vCPU Core
  • 5GB Raid10 Diskspace
  • 200GB Bandwidth
  • 100Mbit Port Speed
  • 1 IPv4 Address
  • 1 IPv6 Address
  • OpenVZ/SolusVM
  • $3 /Month | Order Link
MD Plan

  • 512MB RAM
  • 1 vCPU Core
  • 10GB Raid10 Diskspace
  • 500GB Bandwidth
  • 100Mbit Port Speed
  • 1 IPv4 Address
  • 1 IPv6 Address
  • OpenVZ/SolusVM
  • $6 /Month | Order Link

NodePop are a new hosting company located in New Hampshire. They are a “small group of like minded individuals who currently serve a small client base of small to medium sized businesses”. Their servers are hosted on dual socket boards, with Xeon quad core L5420′s @ 2.5Ghz and 4x 450gig 15k SaS drives in raid 10. NodePop utilize Hurricane Electrics Tier I BGP routed internet backbone, which is the worlds largest IPv6 network, to service all of their equipment. HE use to be very popular amongst LEB hosts, but I don’t think we’ve listed a server located with them for a while.
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ServerMania – $7 Month or $48/Year 1024MB OpenVZ VPS in Buffalo, New York

Tags: , , , Date/Time: May 13, 2013 @ 8:05 pm, by Liam

Kevin, from ServerMania, has sent in his second LowEndBox OpenVZ offer which is available in Buffalo, New York.

VPS-1024L Plan

  • 1024MB RAM
  • 2048MB Burst
  • 75 GB RAID10 Diskspace
  • 2000GB Bandwidth
  • 100Mbit Port
  • 1 IPv4 Address
  • OpenVZ/SolusVM
  • $7/Month | Order Link
  • $17.85/Quarter | Order Link
  • $29.82/Semi-Annual | Order Link
  • $47.88/Year | Order Link

ServerMania were previously known as B2Net Solutions. They operated under this brand for 10 years but they recently underwent rebranding to ServerMania. Interestingly enough, their IP space is still registered as “B2Net Solutions” and the company is legally registered in Ontario, Canada. I’ve noticed ServerMania are utilizing a pretty cool custom billing and order panel which looks great and functions well. ServerMania’s last offer received many positive comments, reinforcing their “Superior Support Fleet” motto.
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Atlantic.Net – $5.11 256MB KVM ‘Cloud VPS’ in Orlando, Florida *free credit*

Tags: , , , , Date/Time: May 12, 2013 @ 10:13 pm, by Liam

Atlantic.NetAdnan, from Atlantic.Net, recently contacted us about their “VPS in the cloud” plans, which have been reduced in price by up to 50% in the past few months. Atlantic.Net are currently offering a free $10 credit to new customers.

XXS KVM Plan

  • 256MB RAM
  • 2.4 GHz Xeon Processor
  • 10GB Diskspace
  • 1GB 1TB Outbound Bandwidth *read below*
  • Unmetered Inbound Bandwidth
  • 10Mbps Port Speed
  • 1 IPv4 Address
  • $5.11/Month | Order Link

Atlantic.Net, a private S Corporation, was formed in 1994 and is headquartered in Orlando, Florida. As with other cloud vps providers, hourly billing, at $0.007 per hour, is available as an alternative to the monthly price of $5.11. A plan with 512MB Ram is available for 20 cent more than the LEB limit. A self-service DNS management tool and nightly backups are included for free with each plan. Whilst their Datacenter has both IPV4 and IPV6, their Cloud currently only has IPV4. We are told that IPV6 will be implemented shortly. Do leave your reviews and benchmarks below!
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Remote server monitoring with nagios

Date/Time: May 11, 2013 @ 11:53 am, by Maarten Kossen

There are many ways to remotely monitor your servers, but nagios is one of the most configurable and flexible ones. Once you have set up nagios, your localhost is being checked. But when there are real issues with your localhost, nagios probably isn’t going to send you any messages. That’s why you should set up remote monitoring: a nagios server that checks all your servers. Ideally, you set up multiple nagios servers or monitor your single nagios server as well. This article assumes a single nagios server.

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HostingInside – $7 Monthly 512MB Xen VPS in Maidenhead, Los Angeles and Germany

Tags: , , , , , Date/Time: May 11, 2013 @ 9:15 am, by Liam

HostinginsideJoni, from HostingInside, has sent in a new and exclusive offer for LowEndBox readers. This offer is available in three different locations: Maidenhead, Los Angeles and Germany.

Xen 512MB

  • 512MB RAM
  • 256MB Swap
  • 2 vCPU Cores
  • 20GB RAID10 Diskspace
  • 500GB Bandwidth
  • 1 IPv4 Address
  • 3 IPv6 Addresses
  • Xen PV/SolusVM
  • $7/Month with Coupon: 7USD
  • Order: UK, USA or Germany

HostingInside have previously been featured a handful of times. Their last three offers have been the same, so it’s refreshing to see a new offer! HostingInside are located in Taiwan and have been around for about 8 years, but Joni tells us that they’re still not registered as a company. I found a benchmark of this plan from last year. You can view their server status / node specifications on this page. Unfortunately on their last offer, no reviews were left. If you’re a customer, or become one, do share your experience with us!
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