June 18, 2009 @ 1:17 am With the recent tragic at LxLabs which pretty much pushed HyperVM out of market, I haven’t seen any new provider advertising low end virtual servers at under $7/month range. While we wait for the alternate control panels to be developed (and kudos to providers who do not use a control panel or have already developed one in house), how about let’s talk about something else.
Now it’s my turn to ask the readers — what do you use your under $7/month VPS for?
I had a few ones over the years that I generally use them for:
- Host a few PHP sites that won’t make me cry if they suddenly go off-line (using Lighttpd/Nginx + PHP/FastCGI).
- Secondary MX for my domains (using Postfix + GLD for greylisting).
- Provide backup space for my more expensive VPS & production sites.
- Jabber bots + server providing various services (I’m a big XMPP fan).
- Private proxy via SSH tunnel or TinyProxy (I don’t live in US).
- Cacti monitor for all my other boxes.
Obviously not all of them on the same 64MB VPS, but I guess it is quite possible doing all that for under 7 bucks a month consider how much memory (256MB+ !!!) you can get these days from some VPS providers (oversold? loss leader? not my business…)
Now it’s your turn. What do you do with your low end box?
- Websites
- Transferring files between computers (often better than usb stick or unreliable email).
- Testing connectivity with ping netcat etc.
Backup DNS
Still waiting for people mentioning dirty words such as “seedbox” or “IRC bots” :)
-WebServer
-MailServer
-FTP Server
-GameServers
-Backup
Backup DNS and MX, and I could probably do a little more on my $5 EliteDataHosting VPS since it has 160 MB RAM.
- Web, email, and FTP servers
- Secondary MX’s
- Experiment boxes
- SSH Proxy’s
Small blog without mysql, SSH tunnel
- openvpn server (accessing hulu.com from europe)
- small webserver
- testing all kinds of stuff
Hosting some small websites, mail server.
-Hosting a few small website
-Platform for learning Linux
Web (four simple php sites, apache, php, pgsql)
Mail (SMTP/POP/IMAP/Web, vhosts, ldap auth)
Cross-backup with my home server
Jabber (vhosts, ldap auth)
OpenID provider (php, mysql)
STUN
LDAP
All of it on one OVZ VPS with 512MB (burstnetworks US VPS) — 10 AUD.
Some static pages,
some hosted files,
SSH tunnel (I don’t like ppl watching my traffic)
Experiments
cURL Kung-Fu
fake open relay
@Chih-Cherng Honey pots?
@LowEndAdmin
Just a specially configured SMTP server. I’m collecting the source IPs of the spam mail, as I suspect them to be zombie PCs.
Secondary DR:
HTTP
SMTP & IMAPs
@Lowendbox Admin:
Do you know, that BuzzServers have USD 3 VPS package for 15 Gigs harddisks + 256 RAM. I use it for my community http://batam.web.id since a week ago and it works fine without any downtime ’till now.
That USD 3 package not in their VPS list order, but, you can find in a post at their offer in WHT :)
GeoDNS
Network Edge Node -> Squid and/or NGINX
@hasanul
look like your site is down right now :P
to bad.