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Luna Node Dynamic: Hourly-billed Toronto KVM -- Floating IPs, Detachable Volumes, Virtual Networking
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Luna Node Dynamic: Hourly-billed Toronto KVM -- Floating IPs, Detachable Volumes, Virtual Networking

perennateperennate Member, Host Rep

Luna Node Dynamic - dynamic virtualization platform (KVM)

Luna Node Dynamic is an hourly billing virtualization platform in Toronto featuring rapid virtual machine deployment, snapshotting capabilities, an API for automation, complementary minimal server monitoring / DNS hosting, security groups, detachable volumes, and more. Register an account in our panel!

Luna Node offers reliable KVM virtual private servers at affordable prices. We use OpenStack for the Luna Node Dynamic backend.

Here's a more detailed feature explanation:

  • Hourly billing - you can create or destroy virtual machines at any time, and then only pay for the hours that VMs were used for. This allows you to provision test containers or scale your Internet application without having to pay for a month per container. The service is prepaid, with Paypal and Bitcoin (via Coinbase) as our current billing options.
  • Custom operating systems - simply submit a URL, and the system will download your ISO image or qcow2 template. Once downloaded, you can provision new virtual machines with the custom operating system. For ISO images, OS installation can be completed over VNC (noVNC client).
  • Snapshotting - hit a button to snapshot your virtual machine, and the current state of the disk image will be saved to our distributed filesystem. You can then use it to restore your virtual machine to a previous saved state or to provision more VMs. Snapshots are charged at $0.04 / GB / month (billed hourly); the first 20 GB is currently free but this is subject to change.
  • API - we provide a simple API that you can use to manage your servers without going through the web UI.
  • Track billing - a Billing tab is included in the Luna Node Dynamic panel that allows you to easily check your expenses for each month, with expenses sorted by day. Invoices are also posted at the end of each month for users who require such documents.
  • Floating IP addresses - you can keep IP addresses on reserve in your account for $1/month (billed hourly). This means you can easily switch an external IP address between different virtual machines on your account. Additionally, if you don't need a VM for the time being, you can snapshot it and then disassociate its floating IP address so that you only have to pay for the storage space and IP.
  • Redundant cloud storage - VMs may optionally be provisioned on top of a distributed, fault-tolerant filesystem to prevent data loss or downtime in case of a host node failure.
  • Private virtual networks - you can create a private virtual network, and the private interface of virtual machines in that network will be isolated from other clients. (Each network is $4/month, billed hourly.)
  • Load balancing, firewall, VPN as a service - inside your private network, these features are available. See https://wiki.lunanode.com/index.php/Virtual_networks for details.
  • Detachable volumes - create arbitrary-sized block devices (volumes) and attach/detach them to virtual machine instances on the fly. For example, you can store application data on a separate volume so that the OS can be upgraded independently.
  • Server monitoring - we offer basic server monitoring at no additional cost, where you can set up checks (e.g. ping, TCP connect), and receive notifications over email or SMS when the checks fail.
  • Security groups - define external traffic restrictions on a VM-group level to make securing your software easy.
  • Startup scripts - specify shell or cloud-config scripts to be run the first time your new VM instances boot.

To get started, you can register an account from our panel; an initial deposit of $12.00 is required. After the initial deposit, more credit in smaller increments (minimum $5.00) can be added when needed. We accept payments through Paypal and Bitcoin.

Plans

  • 512 MB - 1 vCPU, 15 GB storage, 1000 GB bandwidth, $0.005 hourly ($3.6 monthly)
  • 1024 MB - 2 vCPU, 20 GB storage, 1500 GB bandwidth, $0.0072 hourly ($5.18 monthly)
  • Special 2048 - 2 vCPU, 20 GB storage, 2000 GB bandwidth, $0.0097 hourly ($7.00 monthly)
  • Special 1536 - 1 vCPU, 15 GB storage, 2000 GB bandwidth, $0.0072 hourly ($5.18 monthly)

Port speed is 1 gbit/s. Click here for full plan list.

You can open a ticket within the first week to request a refund of remaining credit on your account, no questions asked.

Note that Canadian customers will be charged sales tax when adding credit.

Sign up for an account now!

Locations

Test IP for Toronto location (245 Consumers Rd 300 Toronto; Cogent DC) is here: http://toronto-test.lunanode.com/100MB.test

About

LunaNode Hosting Inc. is a registered company based in British Columbia, Canada. We first launched in August 2013, focusing on low-cost, reliable KVM virtual private server hosting. We use OpenStack for our back-end and an in-house billing / VM management panel called lndynamic on the front-end (we also developed and continue to maintain pbobp, a free software billing panel, and use it for managed hosting services).

Upload your PGP key to https://lunanode.com/gpgmw to receive encrypted email from our mail server.

New features

Images (including snapshots) can now be downloaded from the panel as qcow2 disk files. We've added Ubuntu 14.10 images for VM deployment. We also now have an affiliate system -- earn $5 for each referral (see Affiliate sidebar tab for details)!

Links:

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Comments

  • jarjar Patron Provider, Top Host, Veteran

    I don't quite understand how this product isn't the topic of much conversation on this forum. You've literally built into the panel every feature that everyone dreams for on major providers.

  • ehabehab Member
    edited January 2015

    @Jar said:
    I don't quite understand how this product isn't the topic of much conversation on this forum. You've literally built into the panel every feature that everyone dreams for on major providers.

    perennate ava. is scary

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  • @Jar said:
    I don't quite understand how this product isn't the topic of much conversation on this forum. You've literally built into the panel every feature that everyone dreams for on major providers.

    +1 on that.
    Great feature, low end price, looks like a really good quality service :)

    Thanked by 1perennate
  • perennateperennate Member, Host Rep

    amarc said: Can we know more about network? Is this single homed Cogent ?

    Yes, in Toronto, with 10gbps link.

  • You have been very busy, nice feature list!

    Thanked by 1perennate
  • It's a nice feature list for monthly plans, but hourly billing with a 20% CPU limit seems strange? Other hourly cloud services at similar price points have dedicated cores/threads...

  • perennateperennate Member, Host Rep
    edited January 2015

    jemaltz said: It's a nice feature list for monthly plans, but hourly billing with a 20% CPU limit seems strange? Other hourly cloud services at similar price points have dedicated cores/threads...

    We do not directly allocate CPU cores to customers, they are shared; our services are not meant for CPU-intensive tasks like cryptocurrency mining or video encoding. For short tasks you can of course burst to higher CPU usage and take advantage of allocated virtual cores, the 20% limit is an average over 24-hour period. I'm not aware of any VM provider offering dedicated full CPU core/thread less than $6/mo, much less a provider with hourly billing.

    Edit: we are thinking about adding flexible plans that will come with fixed memory and disk resources, but with CPU and bandwidth charged based on usage. So then if you use 100% of one core you pay $16/mo (billed hourly) on top of the base VM fee, and less than that would be proportional; bandwidth would be $3/TB (billed per GB; which is currently our excessive bandwidth usage rate).

    Edit2: the flexible plans has been added as beta feature to the panel.

    Thanked by 1jar
  • Nice to see another provider similar to iwstack, but what i like is the low prices :)

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  • @perennate said:
    I'm not aware of any VM provider offering dedicated full CPU core/thread less than $6/mo, much less a provider with hourly billing.

    Interesting, I looked at a few sites and couldn't find CPU limitations. It does look like DigitalOcean has a similar price point ($0.007/hour) for dedicated resources, though, as does RunAbove (though that's currently a "lab").

  • perennateperennate Member, Host Rep
    edited January 2015

    jemaltz said: Interesting, I looked at a few sites and couldn't find CPU limitations. It does look like DigitalOcean has a similar price point ($0.007/hour) for dedicated resources, though, as does RunAbove (though that's currently a "lab").

    RunAbove "steadfast resources" has dedicated CPU core, but their cloud sandbox and also Digital Ocean services share CPU resources across multiple virtual machines. For example, Digital Ocean terms of service says "DigitalOcean reserves the right, in our sole discretion, to terminate your access to all or any part of the Services ... if you misuse system resources, such as, by employing programs that consume excessive network capacity, CPU cycles, or disk IO.". We give clear fixed threshold so customers don't have to worry about vague terms of service lines.

  • Interesting. I apologize, I thought that the allure of hourly billing was on-demand dedicated resources - apparently, it's a bit more complicated than that!

  • Jar said: I don't quite understand how this product isn't the topic of much conversation on this forum. You've literally built into the panel every feature that everyone dreams for on major providers.

    And it works :) Have one, love it.

  • IP's geolocated to US, not in Canada.

  • perennateperennate Member, Host Rep
    edited January 2015

    fitvpn said: IP's geolocated to US, not in Canada.

    IP ranges allocated to customers by default geolocate to Canada. You can see test IP 170.75.162.189. If you want IP in 38.110.116.0/23 range we can do that too (geolocate to US), although that requires support ticket.

  • So your current IP range - 170.75.162.x ? earlier you advertise 38.110.116.x

  • hbjlee17hbjlee17 Member, Host Rep
    edited January 2015

    we have both ranges, as perennate mentioned from his previous comment, a support ticket is required in order to be allocated ip in the 38.110.116.x range, otherwise ip allocation is default to 170.75.16x.x

  • perennateperennate Member, Host Rep

    fitvpn said: So your current IP range - 170.75.162.x ? earlier you advertise 38.110.116.x

    You can get IP address in 170.75.162.0/24, 170.75.163.0/24, or 38.110.116/24 as you desire. By default, virtual machines are assigned an IP address in the first two ranges. All IP address are routed identically, so for 99.9% of users it makes no difference. The test IP is for testing the network connection, not advertising that IP address is so good because it geolocates to X country!

  • @perennate, do you have an SSL bundle deal with your packages? (I thought I read it in one thread here)

  • perennateperennate Member, Host Rep

    geekalot said: @perennate, do you have an SSL bundle deal with your packages? (I thought I read it in one thread here)

    No, we do not sell / offer any SSL certificates.

  • @perennate said:
    No, we do not sell / offer any SSL certificates.

    Ok, thanks.

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