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Need suggestions for VPS specs
Right guys, here's the deal. I'm a huge fan of a custom rom named OrDroid, and I want to set up a download mirror for the developer. It has to be in the EU, because I'm there too. The problem is, I need a shitload of bandwidth. Around 2TB would suffice. The general specs of the VPS leave me clueless, It's probably going to hit about 2-3k downloads a month, downloading a 500MB .zip file. Should 128MB be enough? Or would you say, bump that up a little?
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What virtualization you going for will be the key part, I imagine CPU will be up a little bit.
I would go with 256/512MB.
Just use a 32Bit minimal version of any Linux Distrobution and then the VPS should handle it fine.
it really depends. I assume it is not a p2p mirror, but a direct url/direct download one. First off, you have to calculate the high disc i/o with simultaneous downloads, so you should find a host which has good i/o rates. Also you could cap the speed and the simultaneous connections allowed, so one user wont rape the server with multiple connections to the file.
I think the ram shouldn't be a problem.
Question: why don't you simply upload it to a free file hoster? I can recommend netkups.com - it will give you a download url AND a torrent download possibility too, while always seeding the file for you.
Well, anyway: here is a list of servers, you can choose from them, maybe you should write to the hoster before buying.
http://vps-list.cryto.net/index.php?action=list
I wouldn't be asking around here if I wanted to upload it to some free file hoster. I'm just looking around to see if I can find something at a reasonable price, and just for my own experience of handling these things.
nginx should handle that fine on 128, but you may want more if it's xen/kvm for disk caching.
Hi @birdie25,
What is your budget? We could o you a custom plan that would have enough RAM to put the file in RAM so disk IO wouldn't be an issue
Cheers
Jonny
@dmmcintyre3
Can you create a RamDisk on a vps? I wouldn't recommend OpenVZ :P
Indeed, which is why Xen is ideal for RAM hosting
I can give a thumbs up to using Evorack, good servers and excellent support.
Can't see why not? just mount a tmpfs....
Francisco
I recommend either @prometeus (iperweb) or misterhost given your bandwidth requirements.
Prometeus
VZ3: 384MB RAM/384MB VSwap, 12GB disk, 2TB BW, located in Milan
* Disk is on a SAN and from both experience and specs, I can tell it will handle your needs w/o a hitch.
* eu 3.90/mo + VAT (first month 50% off)
* They have recently introduced SSD-backed KVMs if you want to go that route, and also have plans with more bandwidth + other resources.
Misterhost
Cheapest OVZ Plan: 128MB RAM/128MB VSwap, 5GB Disk, 2TB BW, located in Dusseldorf
* After 2TB they will limit you to 10 mbits/sec instead of shutting you down
* Disk is good from limited experience, but I don't have details.
* eu 1.99/mo including VAT
* They offer plans with more resources (bandwidth remains the same) as well as Xen PV.
Yes, IIRC folks have had great success putting the Minecraft DB in RAM on @CVPS_Chris's 2GB OpenVZs
It is better to host this on an OpenVZ VPS, no virtualization and i/o overhead to slow you down. And yes, you can mount a tmpfs which is essentially a RAM disk. The drawback is that the tmpfs is only half the size of your VPS RAM, so for 500MB file you need a VPS with 1GB+ RAM.
You can set a size of the tmpfs in the mount params
Francisco
In this case a 768MB OpenVZ should do too
Thanks, Francisco, i never knew of this mount option.
Mind sharing, @Francisco?
mount -t tmpfs -o size=600m tmpfs /mnt/pony
Francisco
Danke
alvotech.de has a lotta bandwidth too, 512mb vserver for 3.90 in nl or de