Budget VDS for training and development

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Introduction

Many of us have encountered, face or will face the choice of VDS server on the principle of cheap and cheerful. Why are these servers needed? Most likely the greatest benefit will be for beginners, because You can "feel" different software, experiment with different configurations and recipes. Test your abilities and open new horizons. To a freelancer, create the necessary environment for the next order and deploy a developer version of the project there, access to which can be always and everywhere available to both the freelancer and the customer.

Yesterday I sharply needed such a VDS server. Since I am a longtime EOMY customer, I found the so-called “secret VDS tariff”. It is not on their website, but it is available for a direct link.

The characteristics of the servers are as follows:

• RAM: 512 MB
• Swap: 128 MB
• SSD: 5 GB RAID-10
• Traffic: 100 GB
• Connection: 1000 MBit (1 GbE)
• CPU: 1 Intel Xeon E5520 processor core
• 1 IP address
• OpenVPN support
• NFS support (client and server) as well as ACL
• Virtualization Technology: OpenVZ + VSwap
• Up time: 99%

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Of the minuses:

• Tariff cannot be changed
• Configuration does not change
• The location of servers in the US, Arizona, so that the residents of the CIS need to get ready for ping 150-200, although for someone the location in the US will be a plus.
• There is a possibility of data disappearance in part or in full In principle, this possibility exists on any server, just on these servers it is slightly higher.
• If the traffic limit is exceeded, VDS will block until the next month.
• CPU: By default, the full frequency of one core is available. If you often load the processor for a long time (for example, by encoding a video stream), the system will automatically reduce the speed to 400 MHz.

Server price: $ 9.99 per year (if you pay immediately for the year)

What we get in practice:

(If you have already used servers from EOMY, you can scroll)
The server is activated almost instantly after payment.
All necessary data come to email.


Service management interfaces and server control panels do not abound in excess. In my opinion there is everything you need. In KiwiVM Control Panel you can see the server status, stop, reboot, view statistics, reset the root password, reinstall the software, there is a migration from other servers and the installation of OpenVPN and so on.

To install the software, we provide a wide range of operating systems and their versions:

Personal impressions were quite positive. The software is reinstalled very quickly, the server restarts quickly, test web applications work fine. Thanks SSD. The only negative for me is ping. I am in Belarus, the provider ByFly ping keeps at 160 ms, Business networks - 205 ms. For comparison, ping with European servers from EOMY is about 50-60 ms.

On the load test, the Loadimpact server showed itself quite well:

Load Average: 4.2 2.18 1.08 - at peak load.
Testing was done on a demo site on Magento with caching disabled in conjunction with nginx + php-fpm + percona.
Public link to the test
The server did not miss a single request.

Summing up, I can say that the server is definitely worth the money. A suffering soul, desiring new knowledge, will find here almost everything that is necessary.

UPD:
A new secret tariff plan has appeared.
Specifications:

• RAM: 512 MB
• Swap: 128 MB
• SSD: 5 GB RAID-10
• Traffic: 200 GB
• Connection: 1000 MBit (1 GbE)
• CPU: 1 Intel Xeon E5630 processor core
• 1 IP address
• OpenVPN support
• NFS support (client and server) as well as ACL
• Virtualization Technology: OpenVZ + VSwap
• Up time: 99%

Price: $ 20 per year.

Unlike the first tariff plan has:

• more smart processor
• Location in the Netherlands is a correspondingly smaller ping in the CIS, Europe and Asia.
• 200 GB of traffic per month

Otherwise, everything is the same.
In my opinion, not enough significant differences to increase the value of 2 times. But, as they say, "the taste and color."

UPD2:
Small routing problems found. So servers in Arizona may not be available from some points of the World. I have so far encountered 2 such cases. My server was not available from a server in Germany and several servers in Paris. The administration service is up to date and working on solving problems.

Link to the secret tariff plan for $ 10 per year (US)
Link to a secret tariff plan for $ 20 per year (Netherlands)
That's all. Experiment and develop.