This is an overview of the experiences VTLUUG users have had with various VPS hosting providers. == Virtual Private Servers ==

Linode offers fairly good specs (1 GB memoryRAM, 8 cores1 CPU, 24 20 GB storage, 2 1 TB transfer) for $20 5 a month, but do not have any cheaper plans. They have a robust management interface with load and bandwidth statistics, DNS management, and allow uploading of custom ISOs.

Linode has had multiple security-related incidents in the past, one of which was due to a ColdFusion zero-day and resulted in passwords and the last 4 digits of credit card information numbers being leaked. Another resulted in $71,000 in BTC being stolen.

* After many abuse complaints, even if you handle them in a timely manner, they will lock your account permanently, including VPS instances that are were unrelated to the incident. Unless you ask them to disable your account, you will continue to be billed for the time your account is locked.

[https://prgmr.com/xen/ Prgmr ] is a discount Xen host used by several VTLUUG members. After Prgmr was originally viewed as very inexpensive, howeverthey have not made significant upgrades to their plans in recent years. Hosts like DigitalOcean and Linode's 2013 upgradesthat have havemade Prgmr a poor choice for all but their cheapest plans. Since they are Xen-based, Prgmr it is not possible to use whatever ISO you would like, as competitive at higher price tierswell. Recovery options are a debianLive ISO or a netbsd netboot. Management is only over SSH or a serial console. === Vultr ===[https://www.vultr.com/ vultr] has pricing comparable to other options, but actually allows you to use your own ISO images, whileDigital Ocean (and others) only allows you to use their existing kvm images.

The Kimsufi brand is a low cost, low power dedicated server service provided by OVH. It is comprable comparable in cost to many vps VPS providers but is dedicated hardware. OVH has extensive peering issues with the US resulting in poor connections to their France and EU based datacenters. A recently built DC in Canada should help with some of this but will not fully alleviate the issue most likely. They do provide many ISO's with the grsec set of kernel hardening compiled in and IPv6 subnets come with all kimsufi plans. They do have a habit of putting an SSH backdoor on to your server, "so they can help you in the event of a problem" but this just serves as another possible point of failure. US residents also will not have access to the same plans as residents of the EU, who often can recieve receive much more favorable pricing. === Online.net Dedibox=== Dediboxes  === Nforce Entertainment (nforce.nl) === == Colocation ===== Hurricane Electric ===

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