[COLUG] VPS hosting

[Scott Merrill]

Rob Funk wrote:
> Scott Merrill wrote:
>> I finally elected to give TeKTonic a try.  Their "first month 1/2
>> price" deal certainly helped convince me to try them.  I purchased the
>> Linux-2 plan, with 512 MB RAM.  I'm using Debian Etch, running Apache
>> 2.2, Dovecot, Postfix, ClamAV, Amavis New and SpamAssassin.  So far my
>> memory consumption hasn't exceeded 250 MB.
> 
> Good to know!  I've been thinking of doing the same thing, and so far 
> TekTonic seems to be the best value.  Their 256MB plan may work fine for 
> me...
> 
> I wonder if lighttpd might be a better low-memory choice than Apache here.

It's undoubtedly a lower-memory option.  I can only take on learning so
many new things at once, though!  This time it was Dovecot.

> Did you get metered bandwidth or unmetered rate-limited?

I wrestled with this for some time.  Never having paid attention to my
bandwidth consumption before, I didn't have any idea of how much I might
regularly use.

At home, my DSL uplink is slower than even their lowest unmetered
connection, so it seemed a good idea to me to get an unmetered account
with limitless monthly throughput.

But at work I have a considerably faster connection, and I'm sure there
will be times when I want to transfer something (say, backups) faster
than than the unmetered connection offers.

In the end, I chose metered bandwidth.  200 GB monthly cap.  So far,
I've used ~5 GB, due almost entirely to transferring my users' data from
the old server to the VPS.

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