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Luna Node Dynamic | OpenStack KVM VPS | Toronto | Hourly billing
Luna Node Dynamic - dynamic virtualization platform (KVM)
Luna Node Dynamic is an hourly billing virtualization platform featuring rapid virtual machine deployment, hourly billing, snapshotting capabilities, an API for automation, complementary minimal server monitoring / DNS hosting, and more. Virtual machines are provisioned in Toronto.
Luna Node has been around for over a year, offering 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. Currently you have to open a ticket for setup and configuration, but we are working on integrating virtual network service management into the Luna Node Dynamic panel.
- 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.
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 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 ($5.18 monthly)
Port speed is 1 gbit/s. Click here for full plan list.
You can open a ticket within the first week to request a refund of remaining credit on your account, no questions asked.
Note that Canadian customers will be charged sales tax when adding credit, at 5.00% for those outside British Columbia and 12.00% for those in British Columbia.
Locations
Test IP for Toronto location (245 Consumers Rd 300 Toronto) is here: http://toronto-test.lunanode.com/100MB.test
About
LunaNode Hosting Inc. is a registered company based in British Columbia, Canada. We first launched in August 2013, focusing on low-cost, reliable KVM virtual private server hosting. We use OpenStack for our back-end and an in-house billing / VM management panel called lndynamic on the front-end (we also developed and continue to maintain pbobp, a free software billing panel, and use it for managed hosting services).
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Comments
doesn't work, toronto-test.lunanode.com does 301 to lunanode.com --> resulting URL: https://www.lunanode.com/100MB.test
Yes, we migrated our DNS server recently and the secondary DNS server was not updated with correct master IP, and the toronto-test was added a few days ago. I updated the secondary DNS server after making the post, it should update after an hour or so but your browser probably will cache the redirect.
Thanks for letting me know.
Here is the direct link: http://38.110.117.201/100MB.test
cogentco, cogentco and cogentco (pure cogentco?)
yes, yes and yes ( 100% cogentco )
for now.
Sadly you are no longer doing cheap alphassl wildcards. Other than that, nice offer.
IP's geo location comes up as USA, not Canada on the test IP. Are all of your IP ranges detected by ip2locaiton/maxmind as USA?
New VMs are assigned to 170.75.160.0/20.
still needed 20$ deposit?
It is $12.00 for initial account deposit. After that you can add credit from $5.00.
Compared to mnx.io's 100$/month for private VLAN, 4$/ month is like a steal.
But I still think private network should be free, it is the essential bits you can call yourself a cloud vm, just my 2 cents.
There is shared private network for all clients, if you want isolated private network then there is $4/mo fee for the virtual router.
Both of my traceroutes (from Toronto) appear to end up back in Torontol. Except, you'll notice that the last traceroute seems to redirect to 38.140.10.90
11 te0-0-1-3.nr11.b011152-1.yyz01.atlas.cogentco.com (38.140.10.89) 1.825 ms 1.788 ms 1.579 ms
13 te0-0-1-3.nr11.b011152-1.yyz01.atlas.cogentco.com (38.140.10.89) 1.546 ms 1.791 ms 1.802 ms
The 38.110.116.0/23 range is from Cogent and geo-iplocates to U.S., where Cogent is, since the geoiplocation takes from database. New VMs are mostly provisioned with IP addresses in 170.75.160.0/20 range.
very tempting, ping ip is
goodawesome on my side.may i know why people commenting about cogentco? isnt bad or good?
Single-homed services (i.e., networks with only one upstream provider) hold the risk that if the upstream provider has issues such as fiber cuts, then BGP route changes away from that upstream provider would not be possible and packet loss may occur for several hours or days before the issues are resolved. Some people also believe, for example, that having Cogent as the sole upstream provider is worse than having GTT as the sole upstream provider, however in my experience Cogent has offered more reliable and consistent network connectivity than some other upstream providers (for example, one VM I had that seemed to be single-homed under GTT had continuous and unresolvable packet loss with a couple of eastern U.S. ISPs).
We are planning on adding another upstream provider at some point, but it could be several months before this happens.