M's Blog

Dear VMWare,
While I love your product more than most on the market. SORT OUT YOUR LICENSING.
Love
Michael

Well I dumped my dedicated server, I decided with so many other providers of VPSes I wasn’t going to be able to make any money…. Perhaps something to come back to. I am lucky as at work I have a number of servers that I can play with so have setup some testing platforms on there, the normal Xen, Hyper-v etc. My colo’d dedicated server should go into production in the next week or so, I am reformatting it again….

In other news my USA proxy server is finally working. So I don’t lose it and in case anyone else needs to know…

MASQUERADE isn’t supported on a VPS platform so this rule DOES NOT WORK on a VPS

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 10.8.0.0/24 -o venet0 -j MASQUERADE

The rule that fixed it:

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 10.8.0.0/255.255.255.0 -j SNAT –to-source EXT.IP

Obviously adjust to your own requirements….

With my new found addiction to cheap low spec VPS servers I decided to see how cheap I could get a dedicated server, I came across http://www.kimsufi.ie/. Once my old vodafone contract runs out I will be replacing a mobile phone with a dedicated server! I am gonna run Linux on it with XEN and try and run a couple of VPSes on it. Here goes…

This should appear on facebook :)

Over the last few weeks I have been playing with various VPS Servers, some cheap less than a dollar a month others more expensive upto a whopping £8 a month.

My experience is you get what you pay for. This site is hosted on a VPS that costs me £8 a month, I have never had any problems with it at all. I have a monitoring sever that costs me about £20 a year and again no problem. I also have a basic ec2 server that is free, although I haven’t had a chance to properly play with it yet! :)

My $10 per year server (that isn’t a typo $10 a YEAR). Was shocking, I only owned it for 3 days and then asked for a refund, it spent most of it’s time down. I know it was cheap, but surely it should work. This was my first american server, I have since replaced it with one that costs $20 a year, so we will see how that performs.

Providers I recommend: bhost.net, allsimple.net and amazon
Providers I don’t recommend: hostsign.co.uk

More later! :)