[ale] VPS or not

[James Sumners]

Agreed. I just started my second year of Linode service. I have had
zero problems with the service, and my questions (relating to how OS
upgrades would work and billing) were answered promptly and
thoroughly.

I'm sure the outgoing bandwidth for a node is limited (100Mb?), but
incoming doesn't seem to be. I pull updates from the GATech Debian
mirror so fast it's like they didn't even download. Of course, my node
is located in the Atlanta facility (you get to pick which data center
you want).

As for reliability, my node was running non-stop (at least according
to `uptime`) for ~340 days before I had to reboot for a kernel
upgrade. I'm running three Wordpress sites (and a couple other
non-Wordpress) via Lighttpd, with MySQL on the same node, and
everything is smooth and quick. I use the Linode 768 package.  Here
are some current stats:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 # ps_mem.py
 Private  +   Shared  =  RAM used       Program

 84.0 KiB +  26.0 KiB = 110.0 KiB       logger
 92.0 KiB +  31.5 KiB = 123.5 KiB       getty
172.0 KiB +  21.5 KiB = 193.5 KiB       mysqld_safe
168.0 KiB +  41.5 KiB = 209.5 KiB       init
288.0 KiB +  49.0 KiB = 337.0 KiB       cron
276.0 KiB + 111.0 KiB = 387.0 KiB       su
428.0 KiB +  48.5 KiB = 476.5 KiB       exim4
260.0 KiB + 314.5 KiB = 574.5 KiB       ntpd (2)
776.0 KiB + 132.0 KiB = 908.0 KiB       rrdtool
840.0 KiB +  82.0 KiB = 922.0 KiB       rsyslogd
800.0 KiB +   1.1 MiB =   1.8 MiB       sshd (3)
  1.9 MiB + 807.0 KiB =   2.7 MiB       bash (2)
  3.2 MiB + 212.0 KiB =   3.4 MiB       lighttpd
 44.2 MiB + 187.0 KiB =  44.4 MiB       mysqld
 51.0 MiB +  44.8 MiB =  95.8 MiB       php5-cgi (12)
---------------------------------
                        152.2 MiB
=================================

 Private  +   Shared  =  RAM used       Program

 # cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:         769672 kB
MemFree:           33412 kB
Buffers:           70124 kB
Cached:           521288 kB
SwapCached:          116 kB
Active:           438852 kB
Inactive:         254980 kB
Active(anon):      56592 kB
Inactive(anon):    45840 kB
Active(file):     382260 kB
Inactive(file):   209140 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
HighTotal:         47112 kB
HighFree:            160 kB
LowTotal:         722560 kB
LowFree:           33252 kB
SwapTotal:        524280 kB
SwapFree:         524164 kB
Dirty:                68 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:        102312 kB
Mapped:            53676 kB
Shmem:                12 kB
Slab:              29772 kB
SReclaimable:      24584 kB
SUnreclaim:         5188 kB
KernelStack:         976 kB
PageTables:         1736 kB
NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
Bounce:                0 kB
WritebackTmp:          0 kB
CommitLimit:      909116 kB
Committed_AS:     350444 kB
VmallocTotal:     122880 kB
VmallocUsed:        4412 kB
VmallocChunk:     118400 kB
DirectMap4k:      739320 kB
DirectMap2M:           0 kB

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 12:34 -0400, David Hillman wrote:
>> Anybody using Linode or Slicehost
>
> I'm a Linode user, and have been for about the past year.
>
>> and happy about the experience?
>
> Quite.  More than I can express.  They're reliable and you can do some
> pretty interesting and complex thing with them.


-- 
James Sumners
http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."

Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
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