what is your first VPS provider, and how was your experience
my first VPS provider is byethost or byet? (I don't really remember as they had several domains)
openvz
1vcpu
512GB RAM
5GB hard disk
for $20/ month
pretty expensive for the spec but at that time (maybe 2009 or 2010?) seemed good as I hadn't discover low-end community.
however the support was I don't know if it was good or bad when I had problem with the VPS they solved it and said that they have perform some cli command to my VPS.
I mean the logged in to my VPS and messed fix my VPS without permission. maybe it was managed?
so how was your first VPS experience?
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my first VPS = cloudatcost
they offer 1 time payment (pay once for lifetime).
speed and i/o is terrible
and next few years they charge again, i don't know for what, i don't pay it and my vps is now unavailable to access, it's gone from the panel.
my second VPS = ramnode openvz.
they have great speed and i/o was amazing, i love it.
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My first vps was from ramnode in 2014, it was a 128mb in Seattle location. Never faced any issues, it worked very well.
My machine at home a long assed time ago in a galaxy far far away
The Yeti has left the building.
vps4less.de back in 2008 using a Standard Plan,
http://web.archive.org/web/20100111045629/http://www.vps4less.de/
it was good for what I was using it for, then I moved to buyvm for that project, and now it is on a dedicated server with a few other sites.
My first was wishosting.com -they had $3/year OpenVZ units that I loved. Anyone know the fella who runs it?
My first Vps was from 123systems , then I tried UrPad and BlueVM afterwards.
I found all of them from lovely L0w3ndb0x and L3T.
https://microlxc.net/
contabo running plesk in 2018.
needless to say i had to learn quickly
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
I wanna say I had an ipv6 only vps (in Ukraine?) from https://www.ip-projects.de/ probably a dozen or more years back I found off a LEB post. The German fellow who ran the outfit was a bit volatile, and I can easily get under someone's skin, so it was interesting.
keyweb back in 00-years.
Contabo, for what i was doing it was actually pretty decent
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I had also VPS Minimal v1 (with 5 IPs - free of charge back then) from vps4less.de for €3.99 EUR / month from 2007 until August 2020 when they closed down their business. If memory serve me correct they upgraded vps specs slightly free of charge at some point so that I was able to update/upgrade vps, etc.
Some two years before I got my first VPS from german welcome2inter.net for 7.99 EUR/month (also with 5 IPs) and shortly after that from US datarealm for $14.85 USD/3 months (with two IPs).
Specs for those vpses were like (pasted from welcome2inter):
The host I stayed the longest with was xenvz.co.uk / OpenITC (from 2008 to 2022).
I can’t remember the spec, but it was with Lycos and would have been sometime in the late 2000’s. It was something like £15/month and had enough resources to run a website with PHP + MySQL without any optimisation.
do they still have this?
my first vps was actually free from host1free (i think that was the site)
idk the specs but it had something like 128 mb ram / 1cpu/ ???hdd
first paid vps was from arubacloud - 1eur/ mo
2010, prgmr.com. 256 MB ram / 6 GiB disk / 40 GiB transfer (!) XEN instance for $8/month. Seems like I had to wait a month or so for them to add capacity. Many upgrades later it's still my primary VPS.
I've always thought some of their policies (submit your public key to create account, ssh/CLI management interface, etc.) really cut down on the riff-raff, so noisy neighbors haven't really been much of a problem. Maybe I'll see an occasional Dropbox LAN sync packet, but that's about it.
Do any providers offer discounts for competency? Maybe an opt-in scan that checks for things like ssh keys only, no recursive DNS server, no suspicious ports open, no spammy broadcast traffic, abuse@hostname email is read, etc.? Think of it as the VPS version of he.net's IPv6 certification.
Bhost in London circa 2013, now seem to be part of Mythic Beasts. I think the spec was OVZ/2C/256MB/10GB, it was teeny tiny and cost only £1.20pm, it was my first foray into VPS/Shared resources for my own personal use having managed bare metal previously mostly for clients. Chose it it after finding the other green forum and then their discounted offer there.
It was very reliable for what it was, but they priced themselves up out of the low end space. But it probably then led to me migrating services/clients to other providers VPS offerings over the years, and from RedHat to Debian by preference. Haven't used bare metal (dedis) since last year, prefer fewer eggs in smaller baskets.
Mine is Ramnode. 1GB SVZS.
Still have it and it's the only VPS I have. Pretty good if I say so.
@exception0x876
Same here, their mini-HK one was awesome.
My first provider was YourDomainGoesHere (YDGH) which was run by @corey. That was over 12 years ago. Later I had another VPS from Corey through BitAccel. Sadly, BitAccel shut its doors in 2021.
Hats off to Corey for great service and helping me bootstrap my learning to become more self-sufficient with VPSs. I asked more than my fair share of dumb questions back then. Come to think of it, I still do. :-(
If Corey is still hanging around here, I wish him well.
BandwagonHost
In early 2003 a 64 MB UML (User Mode Linux) from Korypet. Initially it worked quite well, but at some point I noticed that disk access got extremely slow, opened a support ticket saying that there might be issues with the disk drives, they didn't find anything, but a bit later the machine died with disk drive failure.
W00T! That's WootHosting. Around 2017.
An epic drama watching them crash and burn.
Most likely had two rusty Xeon cores, 2 GB RAM, and 100GB hard drive. OpenVZ am sure. Probably around $15 a year. The first few months it was relativally OK but then it got slower and slower and slower. Then occassionally long periods of unusability. Near the end of the billing period just gave up trying to access it because of all the issues. I think they kept overselling their nodes even though they had run out of resources.
I remember downloading a whole lot of Linux ISOs to my VPS because I was pissed that it was so unstable and figured would use up all the hard drive space I was alloted.
Good times.
A valuable learning experience. No regrets. YOLO. etc.
aws
I started in the 'clouds'
https://webhorizon.net
BlueVM and then 123systems.
my first vps provider is Namecheap, it was 27 usd/m for a 512m box.
WTFServe, 2008. Apparently $35/month for 256MB RAM, 10GB disk, 'unmetered' 100mbps. Cancelled after ~2 months because it was WHT-style fake unmetered - usage over an average of 4Mbps per month (95th percentile) was not permitted without paying extra.
After that, Santrex $9/month, 2009. Don't know the specs anymore.
BurstVPS ，2012.Apparently 35RMB/month for 1024MB RAM, 20GB disk
bhtelecom.ba
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I think I got an ovh for $3 a month.
At some point got burned by alpharacks or their ilk. They never understood why I needed a routed /64 and proceeded giving me 100 v6 addresses on link.
Never able to actually use the vps anyways.
DM us for private tracker invite.
BurstVPS
Alpha racks that brings back the nightmares
The Yeti has left the building.
ramnode, 1vcpu 128mb ram 15$ a year
Fuck this 24/7 internet spew of trivia and celebrity bullshit.
Cant remember exactly, but it would be either Layered Tech or iWeb. Layered Tech was acquired by some big player and I think iWeb was rebranded into something else.
I know I had a dedi with one and a few vps's with the other, but I cant recall which one was what since this was 20+ years ago.
You had a dedi with Layered Tech
I rememeber this one
Hosted there from 2009 to 2012. They were okay even after the sale.
iWebFusion -> iWF Hosting / H4Y Technologies LLC
Not the same, iWeb was a canadian hosting company. It seems they were aquired by Leaseweb.
I see. Interesting. My "iWeb" were promoted at LEB around 2009 and Jacob (at least i think he's Jacob) pretty active in the community.
Virpus, xen XVM512 with 2 cores 2 IPv4 and a buncha IPv6 for $40.80 USD a year in 2014. The price wasn't that bad for something with 2IPs and a license for DirectAdmin. But I was a bit shocked to find out I paid that much back then.
BlueHost popped my cherry in 2014 because I didn't know any better at the time. Performance and experience was fine, but I paid out the nose on that one.
Moved everything to @Zappie in 2015 after I became a bit smarter on the web hosting world.
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I think one of my first was Afterburst - nice to see they seem to still be going.
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I actually had a Dedicated Server before having a VPS
The first DS I had was in 2005, at NetSonic.
Then 2 years later, my first VPS, at VPSLink, followed by RapidVPS.
Support was fast and I don't recall having any performance issues because I don't think I had that many neighbors.
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My Gmail says I was on shared hosting in 2005 at http://www.lypha.com/ (visit it if you want to breathe 2005) but then there was the VPS from DEHE (bought by SolidHost later) for $46/m. It was probably low-end but with Cpanel and fully managed.
The first dedi from Liquid Web and also fully managed in 2006
I was a noob then so I overpaid, but now I charge noobs for installation and support myself
OVH - wasn't too bad except the DDoS protection had a mind of its own.
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my first vps from cinfu it was 256gb ram 40hdd 1core i think it was 5$ monthly on 2011
https://web.archive.org/web/20111120075105/http://www.cinfu.com/vps
HostUS, years back in 2017. I had purchased two OVZ VPS at once from them, one was 768MB and the another one was 2GB. Their support was good, maybe still now too! But I'm not using their service anymore since they provide old CPUs, OVZ and obviously, for the pricing too compared to low-end providers!
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My first vps was from a free tier of openstack and 2 paid openvz vps from Crissic in LA and Jacksonville
Backend Ruby Dev and Linux user
Ramhost in 2011, they are still running and the website still remains mostly what it was.
Oh man I remember Crissic servers in JAX. My friend was specifically looking for Florida and that's what I had sourced.
Don't remember anymore. Mmm ah yes Slicehost. Then I moved to Linode.
A handful of years later I got a Dedi box from Online.net, and 2014 a $7/y server on VPSDime. (still have it, it got a free bump a couple of years ago so its now 1c, 1GB Ram, 7GB SSD, 2TB bw)
I've also had / I have servers with Hosthatch, XVMLabs, Northhosts, Virmach, Aruba, Hetzner Cloud, Time4VPS, NanoKVM, Inception Hosting.