Testing Out Vultr
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The use of SSH Keys is very nice too and very much required for normal cloud usage. Without it, access would be a problem. With the integrated keys, you build an instance and can access it, without a password, instantly from your normal SSH client. I've gotten used to this with the enterprise clouds and it is a feature I do not like to be without. Very glad to see that here.
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The support custom ISOs as well, which is a nice feature.
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I like that we have IPv6 too. And Reverse DNS management too.
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Some post install details:
# free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 993 81 376 12 535 763 Swap: 0 0 0By default, no swap space is installed. Not an uncommon way to go. Only 81MB used after install process and a few packages installed (sysstat, htop, fail2ban, etc.) So this is memory usage after SAR is running.
EPEL is installed on initial install and does not need to be added.
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Filesystem usage:
# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/vda1 20G 1.3G 18G 7% / devtmpfs 489M 0 489M 0% /dev tmpfs 497M 0 497M 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 497M 13M 484M 3% /run tmpfs 497M 0 497M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 497M 13M 484M 3% /etc/machine-id -
@scottalanmiller said:
The support custom ISOs as well, which is a nice feature.
This was the first thing i noticed!
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@scottalanmiller said:
After the first install, I did a yum update and the system was already totally patched on initial install. Woot. Small, but a nice touch.
@scottalanmiller said:
EPEL is installed on initial install and does not need to be added.
I would prefer a 100% clean, minimal install, but I guess I can do that with a custom ISO if I had to.
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@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
After the first install, I did a yum update and the system was already totally patched on initial install. Woot. Small, but a nice touch.
@scottalanmiller said:
EPEL is installed on initial install and does not need to be added.
I would prefer a 100% clean, minimal install, but I guess I can do that with a custom ISO if I had to.
I agree, I am torn on this one. I don't see any packages from the EPEL installed, only the EPEL itself. So as non-minimal installs go it seems to be pretty tiny. But it is so easy to install when you need it that I agree, would be best to not have it, I think.
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@scottalanmiller said:
The support custom ISOs as well, which is a nice feature.
This means things like Elastix should be a snap to setup on their infrastructure.
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@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
The support custom ISOs as well, which is a nice feature.
This means things like Elastix should be a snap to setup on their infrastructure.
Absolutely. And CentOS 5 is available too, for things like Elastix 2.
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That is one of the advantages of not having paravirtalization and going with KVM full virtualization, custom ISOs are easy.
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@scottalanmiller said:
The support custom ISOs as well, which is a nice feature.
Awesome. So in theory you could do your on backups (via unitrends etc.) and boot via the recovery media to restore if needed.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Is there a cost difference?
Yes. Completely different offerings between the two.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
The support custom ISOs as well, which is a nice feature.
Awesome. So in theory you could do your on backups (via unitrends etc.) and boot via the recovery media to restore if needed.
In theory. We would need to test that to see if there are any roadblocks.
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@thecreativeone91 Here are the locations for the storage servers....
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And here are the pricing levels.
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For big storage, this stuff is pretty cheap. You can add on other kinds of storage too.
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Dang $240/year to run a pretty decent fileserver (500gb) for most SMBs that could put all their files in the cloud if that don't have anything too big or a crappy connection. Not a bad price at all.
