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More providers offering 128mb, 256mb Clouds/VPS'?
Rhys_quadex
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Hello LET, as it may seem obvious from various offer posts, my signature or more simply my LET name, i'm from QuadexHosting.
For the past month or so i've enjoyed looking over lowendtalk but then it hit me, the smallest Cloud VM quadexhosting offers is 512MB, other than that we dont have any 64MB, 128MB or 256MB offers on hand.
So i'd like to call for input from the LET community on whether you guys would like to see another company offer Ultra Small KVM's and if so what are the specifications and prices you deem would be suitable for such plans.
I'm very interested in any input regarding what LET users believe would be the ideal 'small' plan for VPS hosting.
What do you think?
- Would you like to see another hosting site offering such plans?35 votes
- Yes71.43%
- No28.57%
Comments
128MB, 5GB disk, 1 Core, $15/year
Once again, the question is perhaps the wrong one to ask.
Do I like small plans? Yes.
Do I like small KVM plans? YES.
Would I buy them from you? No, not as this time, as you are relatively new around here and I have trust issues, especially where yearly payment is required to make low budget plans viable.
Basically, I would hate for you to get lots of 'yes' votes, invest in this approach, then on-one buys a thing.
Trust issues are understandable
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Well if he doesn't offer it, it's pretty much guaranteed no one will buy it...
Would love to see some sub-512 offerings, especially since your in Canada, I'm in Canada and it's Canada Day! Signed up and waiting...
Yes, but he won't have wasted time/money/effort in setting up something that potentially few people will buy.
What operating system would you offer on these micro VPS offerings? Don't most operating systems require a minimum of 512 MB of memory? I'm pretty sure this is the case for both CentOS and Ubuntu, at least...
Is it real cloud hosting or just another fancy name for hourly billing?
No, it's not. I've proudly run both CentOS and Ubuntu on 128MB VPS in the past without needing to use SWAP at all. However, running most other services alongside the OS tended to push me towards the 256MB (using some SWAP) range.
+1, i am running Ghost blog in a 128MB box running Debian. I also have other small boxes with ubuntu & centos. It is running just fine.
Thank you for the input everyone, we hope to have our plans from 96MB - 256MB out in the next couple of days!
Currently there's only 64-bit OS options. 32-bit would be good for smaller VMs.