I chose them for several reasons:
- Although the old Dell I have under my bed has more guaranteed CPU and RAM, the internet connection at my apartment isn't reliable enough to be hosting sites for clients.
- They're cheap $10/month for 384/768(burst) RAM
- Someone on my local ruby list recommended them
- They give me what I need (a box with connection to the www)
- They don't give me what I don't (restrictions, hassle)
The sign-up process is a little confusing as they use several software packages.
This is what you can expect to go through:
- E-mail sales to get a discount code if you are
- a student
- going to release some or all of your software open source
- Choose OpenVPN or Xen
- choose a location (subject to availability)
- get a discount by paying at least 3 months up front
- claim your discount code from sales
- make your payment via credit card / paypal
- You will get e-mails with the following information
- VAServe Account - this is created right away
- VPS CP Account - this is created during business hours
- eSupport Account - when you sign up for it
- Your VM gets set up during working business hours
- Wait a few hours to get the e-mail in which you'll find your ip address
- You may need to wait until the next business day
- Once you have your VPS CP account
- Change your OS as you wish, wait 30 minutes
- Put in a ticket through eSupport to notifying that you've changed your OS
- Alternatively, if you're using Ubuntu or Debian this may work for you:
#/etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto venet0
iface venet0 inet static
address 127.0.0.1
netmask 255.255.255.255
broadcast 0.0.0.0
up route add -net 192.0.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.255 dev venet0
up route add default gw 192.0.2.1
auto venet0:0
iface venet0:0 inet static
address X.X.X.X
netmask 255.255.255.255
broadcast 0.0.0.0 - Setup DNS
- Buy a domain from Google
- Change your @ and www addresses to the VPS VM's IP address
- I don't know about setting up DNS on FsckVPS. I know you can do it, but I don't know how yet
And at this point you should be all set to go.
Fsck Anatomy
- FsckVPS - home page
- eSupport - knowledgebase, support tickets
- VAServe - customer account, billing
- VPS Control Panel (broken ssl) - VM management
P.S. To get my Ubu-box up to a more useable status I do this:
apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade
# EDIT don't use ufw, it's not compatible with OpenVZ
# EDIT 2 I submitted a ticket and they changed the settings such that ufw's firewall rules work
apt-get install ufw
# EDIT don't use ufw, it's not compatible with OpenVZ
# EDIT 2 I submitted a ticket and they changed the settings such that ufw's firewall rules work
apt-get install ufw
ufw allow ssh/tcp
ufw allow http/tcp
ufw allow https/tcp
/etc/init.d/ufw restart
ufw enable
#iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
#iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport ssh -j ACCEPT
#iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport www -j ACCEPT
#iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport https -j ACCEPT
#iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
#iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport ssh -j ACCEPT
#iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport www -j ACCEPT
#iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport https -j ACCEPT
#create an admin user
adduser my_user_name
usermod -a -G sudo my_user_name
visudo # uncomment %sudo ...
# test ssh and disable root ssh
ssh my_user_name@ip-addr
# Don't do this, in case you need serial console login
# sudo passwd root -l
sudo vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config
#set PermitRootLogin No
I am reading your post because i'm living bad experiences with FsckVPS. I purchased Atlanta 512MB package the thursday at 17:00 atlanta hour, with inmediate credit transaction, and today saturday 8:30PM my vps shows "Pending" status. Sending numerous messages to support, response was "escalating this ticket to concern department", aka billing, and billing department never answered
How is your experience with FSckVPS after of your case explained here?
Putting the ticket request in the right place has been annoying since they have 3 different software packages, but for the price, it's worth the extra effort on my end.
They were bought out by another company a few months ago, so perhaps the new management sucks or something, but I'm still using them.
Sorry to hear the trouble that you're having.
Check them out.
Also http://buildyourvps.com/
The OpenVZ wiki lists a number of what appear to be great providers.
http://wiki.openvz.org/Hosting_providers
RAM Host prices are insane.
The setup was one business day and everything "just worked".
I also bought ThrustVPS for myself. They use all of the same software as FsckVPS, but the site is a bit polished. I have the same issue of having to submit a ticket to get my original IP set up as I did with FsckVPS.