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Your lesser known VPS providers probably have lower tier bandwith, more crowded hypervisors, old virtualization tech or old hardware. That's not to say getting
by shiftpgdn 10y ago
Your lesser known VPS providers probably have lower tier bandwith, more crowded hypervisors, old virtualization tech or old hardware.
That's not to say getting a 8GB openVZ vps for $4 a month isn't an amazing deal, but just that there are caveats.
- Karunamon 10y agoI just had a look through their ToS for the catch. For the most part it's reasonable, but there's a freaking litany of reasonable things you're not allowed to run, including IRC, audio/video streaming, game servers, and so on. Why on earth do you sell me X block of resources for Y$/month if you're going to tell me what I can and can't do with them? Surely unreasonable use would be covered by resource limits already in place?
- smarx007 10y agoThere are mainly 2 reasons: * they oversell, so they assume that only small fraction of web servers will consume 100% of resources, while almost every torrent client will consume 100% of the bandwidth. There is nothing wrong with overselling hosting within a reasonable margin, but most of the people here want to run more than a LAMP stack on the server. * they get too much admin overhead replying to Tor "abuse" letters etc., so they just decided to deal with it in the simplest way possible. I guess both factors contribute equally.
- Laforet 10y agoMost VPS providers already limit the options to run Tor nodes or SMTP servers in one way or another. However forbidding things like IRC and audio streaming is quite unusual and I wonder how oversubscribed their bandwidth must be on these hosts. I doubt CPU or RAM allocation is the issue here given AWS already have a good CPU time credit system to manage it.
- brianmurphy 10y agoIn the old days (90s-2000s), allowing IRC bots opened yourself to being a DoS target and general receiver of harassment complaints from perceived social abuses that happened in the chat rooms. I assume things haven't changed that much.
- Karunamon 10y agoAll major IRC networks hide your IP address when you connect now (mode +x), but I bet the perception still exists. Most of these ToS'es are thoughtless copypasta from other services.. every now and then there's a Show HN from a new hosting company that has absurd nonsense in their terms, and the creator gets suitably chastised for it.
- olegkikin 10y agoI don't really care. My $6/month deal beats any $5/month deal from the major players, and by a huge margin. I recently tested the internet speed on it, and I got 850 real Mbps out of the promised 1Gbps channel, which is good enough for me. I can give Memcached 1GB of RAM and not worry about killing everything else. I have a bunch of sites running on it without stepping on each other, and I doubt that would be the case on AWS / Google / DO.
- imdsm 10y agoYou're telling me that your 150GB HDD beats a 20GB SSD? Even though they're both going to sit at 10GB free for years.
- deelowe 10y agoHe won't reply. He's currently furiously working on integrating his wordpress plugins. Seriously though, Amazon is going after a totally different market than the budget providers.
- smarx007 10y agoHe is free to use his server how he sees fit. And are you really sure that Amazon is going after a very different market with their 5$/mo. offer than a low-cost VPS provider?
- deelowe 10y agoI think comparing a (NVMe?) SSD solution to a HDD one shows the OPs ignorance of the differing market segments each is going after. They aren't comparable solutions.
- olegkikin 10y agoWTF? I never did anything with wordpress plugins in my life. And even if I did, so what? You have some elitism / insecurity issues.
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