I recently got two windows VPS for testing and stuff. The issue I faced was that even though they were Windows 2008 VPS, I still could not ping it. Came to know later that its a security feature and hence all pings are disabled.
You just need to enable it by running the following command on command prompt
netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8
If you wish to disable it, later, you may run this to do so
netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 disable
Someone pointed out a shocking fact in LET that KVM, the new popular virtualization type, can be over-committed even more then the infamous OpenVZ
The KVM hypervisor supports overcommitting CPUs and overcommitting memory. Overcommitting is allocating more virtualized CPUs or memory than there are physical resources on the system. With CPU overcommit, under-utilized virtualized servers or desktops can run on fewer servers which saves power and money.
Read it all at docs.redhat.com
also read the complete thread at LET Is KVM the next oversold VPS? for more enlightenment
Update (April 25, 2011): Added two slideshares at the end of the blog post to show the initial notice that I received and the followup almost supportless support ticket
Well it may be shocking for some but its true. NordicVPS.com is down the drain for most. I believe it all started when they introduced BuyVMish (as Francisco calls it) $15/year package in Oct, 2010 (apparently many did and no one can kick it off as smooth as BuyVM did).
Update (01-April-2011): I contacted HostDime to ask for an offer that Adam accepted some months ago AND I was going to purchase that in June this year. HostDime staff was pretty professional to go through the tickets and offer me the same (right now OR when I later come and give reference to the ticket number with HostDime …. SOLID OFFER I must say)
Not an April Fool joke …
I always had the question (when I am running plenty of scripts on a linux box as to what is eating up all the memory? Finding memory consumed by current running processes in your favorite linux distro. Luckily, I found a great Python utility (scriplet to be exact).
OK, so I have been pretty busy lately, This is an old news from Mar 14 but let me share with you all
Hi
This email is to inform you that Haznet.co.uk has been acquired by Thrust::VPS. As part of this we are currently bringing services upto our normal high operating standards. However currently there are 900+ support tickets open going back a number of months. As we understand that time is of the essance for everyone can we ask that if you have an issue that you open a NEW support ticket. We will be doing a review of all billing as well. As such can we ask that if you do have an outstanding invoice that payment is made as we have now moved transcations over to our Paypal account
Should you have any questions do please open a support ticket and someone will get back to you ASAP
Unix Benchmark results from QuickWeb using unixbench v 5.1.2. QuickWeb offers 2 Core i5 750 @ 2.67GHz cores on their Germany node.
Brilliant result!. I am really impressed with the benchmark numbers because this is pretty close to the benchmark results of 1024MB OpenVZ with another provider that I posted earlier.
Specs: 512MB OpenVZ running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 32bit
So the news I missed last week is, GigeVPS.net has been Purchase by NetIntelligence Ltd (ThrustVPS). Well it was not so long ago that Jacob purchased HostLatch.net from Adam and after nearly two months its been resold again, pretty fast I would say.
This is what they have emailed to all their customers. Personally, I dont like Rus Foster and the way he operates business, especially after the last incident where he blackmailed me for a domain name that he wanted from me.
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Update (14-May-2011): HazeNet has been taken over by ThrustVPS / Rus Foster. Read more about it here
This benchmark is #2 in the series from HazNet, the previous one was done on their Core2Quad series and this one is on their latest XEON nodes.
Unix Benchmark results from HazNet using unixbench v 5.1.2. HazeNet offers 4 cores on their 1024 and 2048 packages.
Specs: 1024MB OpenVZ running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 32bit
Unix Benchmark results from DirectSpace using unixbench v 5.1.2. This is one of their $2/mo offers as advertised in this WebHostingTalk thread
Specs: 512MB OpenVZ running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 32bit