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Luna Node Dynamic: Toronto SSD Cloud Servers
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Luna Node Dynamic: Toronto SSD Cloud Servers

perennateperennate Member, Host Rep

Luna Node Dynamic - the Canadian Cloud Virtualization Platform (KVM)

Luna Node Dynamic is our powerful cloud virtualization platform featuring rapid virtual machine deployment, snapshotting capabilities, an API for automation, complementary minimal server monitoring and DNS hosting, security groups, detachable volumes, and more. We have locations in Toronto and Montreal, providing reliable virtual private server hosting using the KVM hypervisor and the OpenStack software suite.

SSD Instances

Instances with pure SSD RAID10 storage and Xeon E5-2670 CPU's are now available in Toronto! Pricing starts at $4.5/mo (see details below). SSD-cached instances can easily be resized to these new plans from the panel.

Check out the ServerBear benchmark.

Pricing

All plans come with a 1gbps network port, unmetered internal traffic, KVM virtualization (with support for installation from custom ISO's), and optional storage on a distributed Ceph RADOS cluster (provisioning on a Ceph volume gives high availability in case of host node failure, but SSD instances use the same Ceph cluster as SSD-cached instances).

  • SSD 512 - 512 MB RAM, 1 vCPU, 15 GB SSD-cached storage, 1000 GB bandwidth, $0.0063 hourly ($4.5 monthly)
  • SSD 1024 - 1024 MB RAM, 2 vCPU, 20 GB SSD-cached storage, 2000 GB bandwidth, $0.0097 hourly ($7 monthly)
  • SSD LL1024 - 1024 MB RAM, 1 vCPU, 15 GB SSD-cached storage, 1000 GB bandwidth, $0.0069 hourly ($5 monthly)
  • SSD LL2048 - 2048 MB RAM, 1 vCPU, 20 GB SSD-cached storage, 1500 GB bandwidth, $0.0097 hourly ($7 monthly)
  • 512 MB - 512 MB RAM, 1 vCPU, 15 GB SSD-cached storage, 1000 GB bandwidth, $0.005 hourly ($3.6 monthly)
  • 1024 MB - 1024 MB RAM, 2 vCPU, 20 GB SSD-cached storage, 1500 GB bandwidth, $0.0072 hourly ($5.18 monthly)
  • Special 2048 - 2048 MB RAM, 2 vCPU, 20 GB SSD-cached storage, 2000 GB bandwidth, $0.0097 hourly ($7.00 monthly)
  • Special 1536 - 1536 MB RAM, 1 vCPU, 15 GB SSD-cached storage, 2000 GB bandwidth, $0.0072 hourly ($5.18 monthly)

See full plan list here.

Features

We offer a rich set of cloud features to fit your needs, no matter the application.

  • Hourly billing: create and destroy virtual machines at any time, and only pay for the hours used. Our service is prepaid, and payments can be made via Paypal or Bitcoin.
  • Custom operating systems: add custom ISO and qcow2 images directly from the panel by submitting a URL to the image; once the panel has finished downloading your image, you can begin provisioning VMs from it immediately.
  • Live snapshots: snapshot your running VM at any time (no need to even turn it off!). The disk state will then be saved on a distributed filesystem, and can be cloned to provision more instances with the same configuration, or simply kept as a backup.
  • API: a powerful API is available to programatically manage your servers and other cloud services.
  • Private virtual networks: isolate your network traffic and get more control over your network configuration.
  • Load balancers: HTTP(S) and TCP load balancers can be created within virtual networks to easily set up a distributed and redundant service.
  • Detachable volumes: create arbitrary-sized block devices (volumes) and attach/detach them to virtual machine instances on the fly. Volumes are stored on a reliable, distributed Ceph RADOS cluster.
  • 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.
  • Server monitoring and DNS hosting: we offer complementary server monitoring (with various checks such as ping, TCP connect, and HTTP substring, and alerts over e-mail or SMS) and DNS hosting.

Get started by registering an account in our panel!

You can open a ticket to request a refund of remaining credit on your account at any time, no questions asked (except in case of abuse).

Locations

All standard plans and cloud features are available in both our Toronto and Montreal locations. We feature premium DDoS filtering in Montreal, capable of protecting against large network-level attacks.

About

Based in British Columbia, Canada, LunaNode Hosting Inc. 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 are committed to security and privacy and believe in the necessity of free software (see our GitHub). Our staff consists of experienced developers, system administrators, and network engineers; we are constantly monitoring and improving our infrastructure to ensure maximal uptime, and developing new tools to help you better manage your virtual machines.

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

New features

  • Major improvements to complementary monitoring system - less false positives, more reliability, and more versatile check configuration
  • API will now return the ID for most create requests
  • Various front-end improvements

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Comments

  • Note to providers: More like this please. Genuine hourly billing, feature rich, highly affordable....what's not to love?

    Thanked by 2perennate jar
  • perennateperennate Member, Host Rep

    Nekki said: Genuine hourly billing

    To be clear, shutoff instances are still billed at the VM plan rate since RAM and CPU resources are reserved. To only pay for storage and IP address, you can snapshot the VM, de-associate its floating (external) IP address, and then delete the instance; to re-create it, simply select the snapshot and floating IP on the provision VM page.

    Thanked by 1bersy
  • perennate said: To be clear, shutoff instances are still billed at the VM plan rate since RAM and CPU resources are reserved. To only pay for storage and IP address, you can snapshot the VM, de-associate its floating (external) IP address, and then delete the instance; to re-create it, simply select the snapshot and floating IP on the provision VM page.

    Completely understood, and entirely reasonable.

    What I don't like are these plans where hourly billing is claimed, but you have to pay a flat monthly fee whether your VM is created or not.

  • sinsin Member

    Is the uptime pretty decent at LunaNode? The features look fantastic.

  • @sin node uptime has been 100%, network has had a couple small blips - like during their IPv6 rollout recently

    Thanked by 1sin
  • @sin node uptime has been good. Support has been fantastic with response/resolution within 15 minutes to any tickets raised. Credits proactively granted for any unscheduled outage.

    My current stats for uptime are 99.96% over the last 30 days of which the downtime was due to os patching rather than host issues.

    Thanked by 1sin
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