[LRUG] VPS performance and monitoring

[Riccardo Tacconi]

Yes LibreSSL sorry

On 4 March 2015 at 13:01, Nikolai <nikolai.b.dev at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I think you meant OpenBDS uses LibreSSL (http://www.libressl.org/), not
> FreeSLL.  Not just heartbleed but LibreSSL isn't vulnerable to the Freak
> Attack...
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/03/government_crippleware_freaks_out_tlsssl/
>
> On 4 March 2015 at 12:23, Riccardo Tacconi <rtacconi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If you move to AWS is because his huge ecosystem of additional services.
>> For instance in can run your database on RDS or many other DBMSs. There are
>> many other third party companies offering so many services. It seems that
>> EC2 is quite expensive if you compare the cost with Linode or Digital Ocean
>> (search articles with a comparison of the providers).
>> https://www.vultr.com/ is another VPS provider similar to Digital Ocean,
>> I know someone who is happy with it, especially because they have FreeBSD.
>> On thing to keep in mind, when choosing a provider, is security too. There
>> are some companies who offers OpenBSD VPSs. OpenBSD uses FreeSLL, not
>> OpenSSL (heartbleed bug), it does not use BASH (ghost bug).
>>
>> PS: for the guys using things like promod, have a look at CloudFoundry
>> since it is developed in Ruby, and it is easier to use them OpenStack.
>>
>> On 4 March 2015 at 11:07, Klaus Hebsgaard <klaus at hebsgaard.dk> wrote:
>>
>>> Wow thank you for all the feedback.
>>>
>>> My sum up of this is that this is pretty much what to expect with pretty
>>> cheap cloud hosting.
>>> So if I want something better, I should move to something more expensive
>>> (surprise!).
>>>
>>> I would like to hear from someone using Amazon, to hear if this is the
>>> case for Amazon as well?
>>> I know Amazon is a bit more expensive, so is it worth it?
>>>
>>> Med Venlig hilsen / Best regards
>>>
>>> Klaus Hebsgaard
>>>
>>> Website: http://www.hebsgaard.dk
>>> Blog: *http://www.khebbie.dk <http://www.khebbie.dk>*
>>> LinkedIIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/klaushebsgaard
>>> Github: https://github.com/khebbie
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Klaus Hebsgaard <klaus at hebsgaard.dk>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I am the developer and siteOp for Be My Eyes.
>>>> Currently we host our site on Digital Ocean (DO) and we are pretty
>>>> happy with them, they even provided us with at lot of free hosting.
>>>> We have 2 load balancers, 3 web servers and 3 db hosts.
>>>>
>>>> However we have had a few issues with the VPS'ese on DO.
>>>>
>>>> - We had some problem with other VPS'ese stealing cpu time from our VPS.
>>>> - We had problems with DNS latency (we are talking seconds here)
>>>>
>>>> Each time we found a problem they did not trap it in any kind of
>>>> monitoring.
>>>>
>>>> So my question is: Is this what we should expect from VPS? Or are there
>>>> better alternatives out there?
>>>>
>>>> Med Venlig hilsen / Best regards
>>>>
>>>> Klaus Hebsgaard
>>>>
>>>> Website: http://www.hebsgaard.dk
>>>> Blog: *http://www.khebbie.dk <http://www.khebbie.dk>*
>>>> LinkedIIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/klaushebsgaard
>>>> Github: https://github.com/khebbie
>>>>
>>>
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