Comments on: XenVZ £0.99 OpenVZ VPS Quick Review

By: Miguel Ângelo Varela

Miguel Ângelo Varela — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 07:22:33 +0000

Hello LEA,

What’s the current uptime?

By: Minh@Minh Meo's Blog

Minh@Minh Meo's Blog — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:22:43 +0000

It’s hard for me to setup vps with 32mb ram :D

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:02:53 +0000

awesome…. great job LEA

By: LowEndAdmin

LowEndAdmin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:29:56 +0000

Just to report my 99 pence/month VPS at XenVZ now has uptime of 300 days. Very stable indeed.

By: ichilton

ichilton — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:48:47 +0000

Hi,

Are you able to recommend a tiny SSH BFD script which will work on this VPS?

Thanks,

Ian

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By: David Man

David Man — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:13:57 +0000

IRC is allowed but we need users to request usage via our web contact page.

This just allows us to keep a record of of usage and to ensure that we know which VPS are using IRC services.

By: tucupi

tucupi — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:03:17 +0000

IRC allowed?!

By: Sean McRobbie

Sean McRobbie — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:15:58 +0000

Unfortunately we do not have native IPv6 (though we are hoping to very soon) and we do not have tunnels on our host nodes. You may try running your own tunnel within your OpenVZ VPS – we can enable the tun/tap device for you. However, while we cannot guarantee an IPv6 tunnel will work in OpenVZ, we can with our Xen based VPS.

By: JosephB

JosephB — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:53:18 +0000

Got mine up and running.

Was thinking of logging a query about adding tunnel devices, can’t add ipip gre sit tunnel which is a pain as I was hoping to be able to play around with ipv6 over a v4 tunnel.

Anyone tried the support yet?

By: Thodoris

Thodoris — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:01:47 +0000

I ordered today a Nano VPS..

I’m running lighttpd, php5, vsftpd, sendmail and DokuWiki..
It’s running AWESOME!

And it’s only £5.94 for 6 months :D

By: Sean McRobbie

Sean McRobbie — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:21:00 +0000

@LowEndAdmin – No problem. Hopefully we have perfected our algorithm to suit most size of VPS with as little overhead as possible. All that is left to do now is fine tune (yet again) many of our OS templates.

Enjoy your Nano VPS :)

By: LowEndAdmin

LowEndAdmin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:14:03 +0000

@Sean — thank you very much! That makes this VPS much more useful now — although I have been running the wiki for the last few days taking 10 visitors/day and haven’t run into any issue yet :)

By: Sean McRobbie

Sean McRobbie — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:10:20 +0000

Hello again!

Input from yourself and Marcus has led to the following:

# 164k of tcpsndbuf and tcprcvbuf means it could be very difficult to stream big chunk of data over TCP connections. I had hit the limit of tcprcvbuf a couple of times myself.
- We changed this a few days ago (doubled). It has now been quadrupled.

# Maximum 96 TCP sockets and 1024 opened files. I can think of quite a few apps breaking these params.
- Doubled these too.

Please click “Update Quotas” within our CP to receive the new values :)

By: Sean McRobbie

Sean McRobbie — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:45:36 +0000

Forgot to mention my original point:

Stateful firewall rules are currently disabled due to memory usage problems with them in the past. It just does not seem economical to run iptables rules on such little RAM. We leave stateful firewalls for our Xen packages only.

By: Sean McRobbie

Sean McRobbie — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:43:55 +0000

Hi Guys,

Thank you for the positive review!

We have tried to tune our 32mb Nano VPS quite a bit and will constantly tweak it for even lower memory usage.

We are experimenting with even more measures to cut down memory use and are will tweak user_beancounters as nessesary. Our CPU limits are there by default to protect other customers. We can change these thresholds on request.

We welcome any suggestions users may have – please simply let us know!

By: Dufu

Dufu — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:15:22 +0000

Very impressive! Wiki feels fast indeed.

By: wayne

wayne — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:03:01 +0000

just migrated to zenVZ at last weekend

By: LowEndAdmin

LowEndAdmin — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:32:07 +0000

What do you mean by “what security”?

Just some iptables rules to limit access to SSH port that’s all.