[olug] leasing dedicated linux box

[Daniel Pfile]

I've been totally happy with linode. They're user mode linux machines, 
so they are shared. But, as there are some nice bonuses. They're in 
good data centers, on good hardware, which is a bonus. Having the 
single hd go out on your $99 a month leased box sucks. He has a pretty 
good user mode linux system going, you set up (and resize) your disks 
and initial distro on the website, and boot your machine. Log in as 
root and you're free to do whatever. He keeps his kernels pretty 
current, and if you screw up your machine and make it unbootable or 
unaccesable somehow, you can ssh into your uml's host and get console 
access to your linux box. Good luck finding a data center that will 
give you console management access for a cut rate.

I have a 128, which is 128 meg of ram, 6 gig of disk, 50 gig transfer, 
and shared with 19 other instances on a dual 2.6 xeon, for over a year. 
I run gentoo on it no problem, and it handles email/web/etc for myself 
and a few friends no problem. I only use about 10 gig of transfer a 
month with some pretty lightly loaded web apps, so I'm not exactly 
stressing it. For $40 a month it beats any shared hosting plan if 
you're a geek.

It looks like they've got the knock off RHEL, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, 
RH, Mandrake and Slack at the moment.

http://www.linode.com/products/linodes.cfm

If you pay for a year you get 50% more disk space free. He's been 
running that special for almost a year now. The 192 ($60/mo) or the 256 
($80/mo) should work for you.

Check em out,

Daniel

On Jan 13, 2005, at 6:36 PM, Charles Bird wrote:

> Anyone have any recomendations on a somewhat cheap dedicated linux 
> machine with more than 15gig disk space and close to the backbone?
> I am currently using a bsd V. machine and am looking to place some of 
> my projects as well as other ppls on one machine thats leased by just 
> me.
> tips, warnings and good stories are welcomed.
> Thx yall, see ya at the install fest.
> Charles
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