VPS Server Suggestions & Providers Also What Control Panel Do You Use?

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  scotty on 12/06/2016 - 17:05

  +1

  Control panel? sudo and then vim :)

  I have been a customer of Network Presence for 3 years and I have been wondering how they can deploy servers at that price point. I am the type of person who hates to bother the customer support so would like to have as much self-service function as possible. So my favourite providers are Linode, DigitalOcean and Vultr (who also have Sydney servers). I would love to use more AWS EC2 but pricing aren't amazing unless long reserve instances.

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    MMM on 12/06/2016 - 17:43

    Thanks Scotty, appreciate the input and especially knowing that you have been with Network Presence for 3 years makes me feel more confident. Due to the really cheap price point I was not expecting much at all but as I said I was pleasantly surprised it was an easy install opted for 12 months VPS with Cpanel all at a very reasonable price. Will take a closer look at the control panel suggestions but they may be a little above my layman's expertise:)

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  bjdchwr on 12/06/2016 - 18:18

  +1 for Vultr

  They have been great in VPS and their low end plan is great for serving small to medium traffic sites.

  I have used them for years and had no problem at all. I was a Linode customer but they don't have AUS instances.

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    scotty on 12/06/2016 - 19:13

    Yeah Vultr has grown to be very good over the years whereas I found Linode & DigitalOcean pretty much stayed the same. I have used all three here at OzBargain, and still have an old Linode at Fremont running our mail relays, because (1) Vultre don't allow out bound on port 25, and (2) still have quite a bit of Linode referral credit that might last me awhile. Vultr also needs to get bandwidth pooling implemented — then I might actually consider to move OzBargain there.

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      bjdchwr on 12/06/2016 - 20:34

      Hi Boss :-)

      AFAIK, port 25 seems to be removed easily by sending them a ticket.

      FYI:

      Ahmed Samir Vultr Staff

      Thank you for your inquiry.

      I have removed the default SMTP block on your account. Please restart any active instances via https://my.vultr.com for the change to take effect (restarting via the server itself will_not work).

      For reference, our ANTI-SPAM policy is listed here:

      https://www.vultr.com/legal/antispam_policy.php

      Kind Regards,
      Ahmed Samir
      Systems Administrator

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        scotty on 20/07/2016 - 23:17

        +1

        With the number of mails we are sending through our current smarthost (maybe around 100,000 per day), I doubt many would want our business :)

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  Clear on 12/06/2016 - 19:11

  +1

  I've also been using Network Presence for years and they're great. I've called Richard many times and he's always been helpful.

  Only real issue was the outage back in October with a restarting switch. Besides that there has been no other unplanned outages.

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  scotty on 21/07/2016 - 10:52

  +1

  For the past weeks I have been playing with some VPS from Binary Lane. They are on the cheaper end although not as cheap as Network Presence / RansomIT / Vultr. However,

  • Virtual Private Cloud is awesome. You basically can "team" your VPS's into their own private network and set up your own routing rules & external firewalls.

  • Bandwidth Pooling means you only pay overage when you exceed the combined bandwidth of all your VPS. For example you might have multiple beefy backend DB that don't use much data and you don't have to pay overage because you have some small load balancer in front.

  • They are also part of Mammoth Media which we (OzBargain) has used for a few years hosting other stuff.

  Anyway I liked it quite a bit and ended up migrated OzBargain over yesterday from Crucial Cloud Hosting to Binary Lane. Combining with cheaper per-server cost & no data-overage, we will be paying around 1/3 of the cost at Binary Lane comparing to Crucial. Moreover there's instant deployment and per-minute billing means it's also more flexible for us to add/remove new servers.

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  netpres on 21/08/2016 - 23:11

  We've taken your comments onboard Scotty and we now have a "VPS Resource Pool" range of products in our NetPres Compute Cloud range of VPS Plans.

  With those VPS Plans, you can use CPU, RAM, Disk, Network Data and IP Address resources across multiple VPS from a single order on our Shopfront site.

  FYI and regards,
  Richard.

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  strat on 21/08/2016 - 23:20

  +1 for binary lane been using them since they started the sister company.. some early teething issues but rock solid since.