[LRUG] VPS performance and monitoring

[Nikolai]

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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