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What are people using their Host1Free VPS for?
asterisk14
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After waiting a few days, I've now got a Host1Free VPS, ~800MHz/128MB with 256 Swap/10GB HDD/Bandwidth ?
What are people using theirs for? I was going to use it as an asterisk voip pbx, but with the reports of downtime, unreliability, I won't bother. I was looking at @trexos monitoring script which I could use to monitor my other servers, 1 in use 2 idleing, but if H1F is not reliable then that doesn't seem very useful.
So what to do? VPN? or something like this https://my.securedragon.net/knowledgebase.php?action=displayarticle&id=40
Anyone with any other ideas?
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I had one once. I could never connect to it with any reliability. When I could the network was INSANELY SLOW. So, nothing mission critical. I had thoughts about putting a 2nd IRC server for my network on it. Didn't work out. The reliability was too poor.
They are not fools, certainly they strictly disables PPP and TUN/TAP to prevent public VPN been set up. So I think if used for proxy, the only things possible are SSH tunnels, SPDY proxy and HTTP/HTTPS proxy.
Does this mean I can't do http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/6106/openvpn-community-software-auto-installer-for-centos-5-6-debian-6-and-ubuntu-10-10 or something like this https://my.securedragon.net/knowledgebase.php?action=displayarticle&id=40 on it?
The node is located in Germany. The following are the tests I done with it:
DISK IO TEST
[root@ ]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda2 bs=100M count=1 oflag=direct dd: writing/dev/sda2': No space left on device1+0 records in
0+0 records out
67104768 bytes (67 MB) copied, 0.889405 seconds, 75.4 MB/s
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Comment: not bad.
Incoming bandwidth test:
Use Linode London as source: [root@ ]# wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.london.linode.com/100MB-london.bin --2013-07-23 04:15:43-- http://speedtest.london.linode.com/100MB-london.bin Resolving speedtest.london.linode.com... 176.58.107.39, 2a01:7e00::4b Connecting to speedtest.london.linode.com|176.58.107.39|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to:/dev/null'100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 1.17M/s in 86s
2013-07-23 04:17:09 (1.17 MB/s) -
/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]Comment: Incoming restricted to 10Mbit/s
Outcoming bandwidth test
from minivps in UK. [root@uk ~]# wget http://5.231.xxx.xxx/file.bin -O /dev/null --2013-07-23 04:21:24-- http://5.231.xxx.xxx/file.bin Connecting to 5.231.xxx.xxx:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 100000000 (95M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to:/dev/null'100%[======================================>] 100,000,000 1.16M/s in 83s
2013-07-23 04:22:47 (1.15 MB/s) -
/dev/null' saved [100000000/100000000]Comment: Same restriction to 10Mbit/s.
Additionally, I used an automatic script to compile Nginx, PHP-fpm and MYSQL on it today, and took about 2.5 hours (compared to 20 minutes on Linode 1024).
VNC is OK. But for PPTP VPN, you do not have access to ppp virtual network, which means you will be disconnected by peer if you try to connect to a VPN Server in this container.
just installed ajenti (it mentioned in another discussion and i give it a go
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@sundaymouse - thanks
@tridinebandim - how much memory is used? which is the lightest control panel -kloxo/webmin/zpanel/ajenti?
With no actual php website hosted, it consumes 126MB of physical memory (half of which is cached), also with 80MB of vSwap occupied.
@asterisk14 just nginx, no mysql, no php and ajenti loads about 45 mb ram(after service restart), and it gets bigger when you login and log out
45 - 56 -61 ... i dont know why 
What you did has generated cached RAM.
can use for testing other vps. i.e. client to do siege or ab?
Mine just idles.
I did the upload and download test and yes, both capped at 10Mbit/s, but this is not big deal as my ADSL internet is only 6Mbit/s download! Installed asterisk and webmin, so far so good.
I used to run a status script.. until I took..
I know some people who run lot of samp game servers on multiple host1free VPS.
I use my Host1Free VPS to make me spit and curse in my frustration with it.
Well, no much point in using it for VNC as I am in UK, so better to use my US VPS as VNC/VPN.
Asterisk - no, need high reliability - going to use my reliable EU VPS for that and another reliable US VPS as backup.
WWW - I am re-learning HTML, I have made a crappy site with the best VPS deals http://zaheer.ml so I think I will use it for that!
Testing - test control panels, scripts, installs, although it takes some time to complile/install anything. I've only been using it for a day, but it seems OK, not too slow and not that zippy. It didn't cost me anything so can't complain.
@mojomuju @Jeffrey - why don't you donate it to a cause, or let someone learn linux on etc..... don't waste resources that someone could use.
i use it as proxy and a small site
Whats the upload and download speed of a host1free VPS in KB's ?
10KB/s to 100KB/s
=10 Mbps [Megabit-per-second]
=10000 Kbps [Kilobit-per-second]
=1.25 MB/sec [Megabyte-per-second]
=1250 KB/sec [Kilobyte-per-second]
This is more than enough for normal needs!
First i learning for basic linux