Aliyun Cloud is currently doing VPS promotions. By signing up here, you will receive $5 or $10 and a free new user trial ($300 to $1200). Why Aliyun Cloud? Aliyun Cloud is a Top IT company (group of Alibaba Inc). It provides a lightweight cloud server – the cheapest VPS costs only $4.5, competitive to Continue Reading »
One of my VPS droplet has been under heavy attacks (either malicious or the bots) recently on an off. I got notifications of heavy CPU usage spikes and high load average up to 30 to 40 a few times per day. I have checked the apache logs and found out the unusual activities from bots Continue Reading »
You can easily enable the resource monitoring on Digital Oceans VPS, the droplets. You first need to SSH connect and switch to your root account (or other sudo accounts) and type in the following: curl -sSL https://agent.digitalocean.com/install.sh | sh The script will install the monitoring daemon on your server – which shouldn’t take long: And Continue Reading »
Both KVM and OpenVZ are mature technology and both have advantages and disadvantages. OpenVZ For OpenVZ, it is not a true virtualization. Rather, the virtualization is based on OS layer. But you get a higher CPU performance (thanks to lower memory and CPU overheads on the host server). The disadvantage is: OpenVZ VPS may be Continue Reading »
If you are looking for really bargin VPS, Bandwagon is something that you don’t want to miss. Here is what Bandwagon offers: The cheapest brand is only $19.99 per year where you can get 1 core (Intel XEON CPU), 512 MB ECC RAM, 10 GB SSD (on Raid-10 Space), 500 GB Bandwidth and 1 Gbps Continue Reading »