Re: virtual private server? advice requested
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:34:05PM -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote:
> Basically, I've grown frustrated with trying to host important services
> off a consumer-grade network link. A little googling and Wikipedia-ing
> reveals that what I probably want is a "virtual private server". Then I
> can still have the control and tinkering power I have now but without the
> worries of consumer DSL and electricity nor the expense of a dedicated
> co-located server.
"virtual" is a bad keyword. Try focusing on the technology. e.g.
linux xen hosting
debian xen hosting
> 1. One IP address that is not on any spam blacklists.
> 2. Enough horsepower to run:
> a. an Apache instance serving ~10,000 static hits on a busy day,
> usually much less
> b. an Exim instance accepting ~1,000 incoming e-mails daily,
> including spam, with rare floods of 20,000k+ backscatter spams
> c. enough SpamAssassin to scan the e-mail
> d. enough IMAP server to let me read the e-mail
> 3. ~10G of disk space.
> 4. Debian, preferably Lenny.
> 5. Cheap, ideally in the $10-15/mo range.
When I did the survey a year ago, there wasn't much to choose from at
that range. At around 20$ there were more options.
> 6. Reliable.
An interesting utility I found over time is an OpenVPN server to provide
me simple linking between my various computers.
This can easily be done with a Xen guest. Not possible, from what I can
tell, with a OpenVZ host.
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