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I am looking at going with IntoVPS as they have a good price range and locations that suit my needs. Their plans are similar to Linode's, and you get a bit mor
by ayers 15y ago
I am looking at going with IntoVPS as they have a good price range and locations that suit my needs. Their plans are similar to Linode's, and you get a bit more traffic and disk space in comparison.
http://www.intovps.com/ http://www.intovps.com/
- timbowhite 15y agoThx! This provider looks very promising. Their price for a large instance is roughly half of Linode's price.
- timbowhite 15y agoFYI - I just signed up with these guys to try them out. Here's how it went: 1. Account setup was pretty smooth. I was able to create an account without giving my billing details (unlike Linode). However, when I attempted to pay my invoice via their credit card form, authentication failed (maybe because it was an international payment and my bank freaked?). So I tried again Paypal (yuck), and it worked. 2. I received a some welcome emails, one of which had my intovps account password in plain text. Big warning sign that they might not be hashing passwords in their DB. 3. I opened a ticket about #2, and within minutes got this response: "We don't store any of the passwords as plain text. Since we've received this complaints before I will talk to my colleagues to no longer send the password as plain text." So a little more encouraging. I'll try to post updates as I try out their service.
- timbowhite 15y agoUnfortunately things didn't work out with intovps. They're using OpenVZ (2.6.32 kernel). Apparently it's not possible to run truecrypt on OpenVZ, so I'm going to keep looking for a Xen VPS based provider, starting with http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/VirtualPrivateServerProviders http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/VirtualPrivateServerProvid....
- ayers 15y agoThanks for the update. Good to know that truecrypt doesn't run on OpenVZ, I didn't realise that was a short fall of OpenVZ.