I like the idea of the web application firewall, and that looks like something that can setup on the same VM as what would be running Nextcloud, etc.

@JaredBusch said in VPS injected ssh keys:

Under no circumstances do I actually want anyone's key tied to the root user. It negates all accountability.

It's for pre-production setup. Not for deploying straight to production.

To add to this- I have an error that started appearing after updating their Fedora 29 and 30 instances. Further testing found that the error appears in different regions using their server type template installers or even a custom iso option that I used with net install. All I have to do is deploy, run dnf update and reboot. The error is present in every boot after the update.
https://mangolassi.it/topic/19903/fedora-29-and-30-edac-skx-can-t-get-tolm-tohm-error-on-vultr

@Emad-R
Absolutely. Two things:

They are new so servers are most likely not overloaded with VMs. Time will tell if they continue that way after the service gets popular Depending on the configuration, they are more expensive

@tonyshowoff said in LAMP on the cheap, or how to optimize ?:

Installing crappy cPanel is like buying a sports car and putting a boot on the wheel. There's literally no good reason what so ever to have it, it's slow as hell and eats resources like crazy. Just learn a few commands and you'll be fine.

Don't get yourself stuck with PHP 5.x, it's a dead end, fix your code now and/or do it right from the start and use PHP 7.

Apache with mod_php is a hell of a lot faster than PHP-FPM, because it's executed as a part of your running httpd thread pool rather than executing PHP literally every single page request. Nginx is faster than Apache except when it comes to PHP then hands down always use Apache with mod_php. If you turn on PHP 7's opcache you'll do even better.

In case you consider it and try to go with nginx, since that's what the cool kids try to push on people, OPcache won't make up for PHP-FPM having to literally start a process every single page request, every, single, page request. Nginx is a great reverse proxy though.

It also depends on what you're doing overall, memcached is great I've used it on a huge scale but what are you caching? What database are you looking at using, that'd really be the only reason to have an object cache like memcached at all.

Interesting, I will see how it performs without PHP FPM.

@bnrstnr said in Vultr Node Failure - VPS Recovery Unsuccessful:

@JaredBusch said in Vultr Node Failure - VPS Recovery Unsuccessful:

And you have a 2 month credit coming.

If you paid the $1/month for automatic backups you could be online in an hour or less.

Yeah, it was for testing, so I wasn't going to pay more. Not too worried about it.

Just sharing the experience. Not sure if anybody else has encountered this yet with Vultr.

1 host erasure with recovery of my VM (luckier than you) plus a number of networking issues at DC level in 6 months (Amsterdam data center).

@scottalanmiller said in Vultr Storage Instance Availability:

I asked Vultr to modify the notice so that people wouldn't keep being told that they were temporarily sold out.

Thanks.

@flaxking said in Staggering Cost of Azure and Windows on Cloud:

I've heard that GitLab uses Azure in order to test their resiliency

They do, it's caused a bit of outages there.

@bbigford said in How would you move an IIS workload from on site to a VPS:

I'll have to look into that, as I'm not sure how I can just copy the application folder though since it's an install on Windows.

Normally it is just a folder that contains the app. Presumably the app needs a datasouce as well, though. Where is that located?

What kind of web app is this? ASP.NET? PHP? Java?

@emad-r said in FOSS VPS Options (or VirtKick alternative):

@stacksofplates said in FOSS VPS Options (or VirtKick alternative):

Why not just use OpenStack?

I didnt know it had this functionality, I thought it was like vCenter.

Do you have screenshots on how the clients see the panel ?
do you know easy guide to set it up with KVM centos 7 ?
Does it support billing ?

Created a demo user. You get whatever resources are assigned to that user/group.

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This is an all-in-one setup for a home lab. If you do this the right way you probably won't be managing it yourself. It uses KVM on CentOS (or Xen is possible on other platforms).

There is no billing directly through OpenStack, but it provides the info for that. Usage is tracked for all projects. You can set up billing through something like Cloudforms (ManageIQ). It doesn't look like Vmango does anything related to billing at all.

However, to be frank, are you really going to be charging customers to run a VPS on a single host?

@FATeknollogee said in VPS/hosting: Vultr-like speeds + easy-cPanel management:

@scottalanmiller said in VPS/hosting: Vultr-like speeds + easy-cPanel management:

CloudWays ? They literally let you choose Vultr as the host and I'm actually testing them right now.

How is the testing coming along?

Looks really nice. Not sure that it meets our needs well, though. It covers the pieces that we can handle easily but doesn't address the annoying pieces. Looks like a good product though.

@emad-r said in Automatically Add New Vultr Fedora Minion to Salt Master:

@scottalanmiller said in Automatically Add New Vultr Fedora Minion to Salt Master:

If you are using Vultr as your VPS or Cloud Computing IaaS platform, then you have some simple tools to make automating a Salt Minion installation even easier. Vultr allows for "boot scripts" which run upon initial VM creation, along with their automatically installed system keys. Adding a tiny script can make all of the difference between needing to set up a new VM and having the entire process be totally automated.

Here is an example script that you can use. Notice that this is for Fedora and uses DNF. You will need a similar script for APT, YUM or other package management systems.

#!/bin/sh dnf -y install salt-minion echo "master: you.salt.master" >> /etc/salt/minion systemctl restart salt-minion systemctl enable salt-minion

That's all that it takes. Select the script when building your VM(s) and look for them to auto-populate in your Salt Master's key request list.

But what will be the ID/name of this Fedora instance in salt master ?

LOL, I got confused. Was thinking we were on Sodium, not salt.

It'll be your hostname.

@scottalanmiller said in Linode and Vultr Current Pricing Q1 2017:

Vultr has a much superior (IMHO) web interface. Linode's is not at all on par.

Completely Agree 100%

@aaronstuder said in Vultr Adds a Free Firewall Service:

Is it just me, or is Vultr killing it recently?

Are they? With Linode's improved pricing, Vultr still is trailing for us in most use cases. It's a bit too costly and a bit too slow. We just get way more bang for the buck with Linode and Linode has load balancers which I think are a bit more important than firewalls. Vultr is doing well, but killing it seems a bit far as we are migrating off in several cases because it just isn't the best value compared to it's more mature competitor any longer. It's definitely doing better than Digital Ocean these days, though.

crazy awesome performance

That's KVM for you 😉

They are going to integrate LetsEncrypt, too.

That's that. You can use extremely limited (2) VMs for testing or development, nothing more. You VPS, no cloud computing. No multi-tenant. So that is why Apple has no VPS presence, it's not allowed. You can get PS, but not VPS.

@scottalanmiller Plain