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Mon, 14 Sep 2009

/Hosting/vpslink: Review of Virtual Private Server (VPS) at vpslink.com:

As of summer 2008, I have been using a vpslink.com[1] VPS for a about a month now, and so far, all is well, especially the price.

If your needs are simple, their 64 MB RAM / $7.95 plan is a good deal. If you choose XEN hosting, you also get some swap. I currently have postfix / dovecot / MySQL and a couple other minor daemons running in this skinny little RAM no problem, no swapping (and as yet, very little load! I am still setting up....)

There is a wide choice of Linux distros to choose from for your VPS, I chose Debian.

This is my first VPS, so I can't really compare with other service offerings. I can say that getting installed and setup was trivial, and thereafter everything works just like the same old Debian I am used to.

The only snafu so far is some unnecessary password confusion. When you start up with the service, the same password works everywhere. However, if you start changing passwords, you will soon find that your newly changed password does not necessarily apply everywhere you think it should. And most confusing of all, at least the first time, if you reboot your server from the Control Panel on their website, the root password gets reset to the original password. Lesson: keep that original password safe, you might need it for a long time.

I will keep this post up-to-date with my on-going experience.

If you register for an account, be sure to use my referral code: F5H33Z. You will get a 10% discount, and I will get a few pennies as well.

[1] http://vpslink.com/?ref=F5H33Z

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