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[Smong]

Ping party!


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[Confess]

wholly, this seems to be going a LOT faster. like 10x.
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[BDwinsAlt]

I noticed it loads instantly for me. The other day it took a little while. Love ya MGB

[Mine GO BOOM]

[Maverick]

yea I also sure love it.
I always like instant loading websites $
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Nickname: Maverick (I changed my name!)
TWCore developer | Subspace statistics

[Mine GO BOOM]

Using apache's little benchmarking tools, I've sent 100 concurrent connections to the site, and only 30% of the 1,000 pages loaded took longer than a second. Half got theirs back within 250 ms.

So those of you that were browsing before this post, you might have notice the Page Load number on the bottom being in the ~3,000 pages loaded in the previous 5 minutes. Yep, that was me spamming the hell out of apache. I'm done benchmarking it for now.

[Maverick]

MGB, I was wondering, would you be able to create more virtual images and have other people use them or even have them pay for it?
I would be interested if it isn't too expensive

[Mine GO BOOM]

I am planning on it, but I seem to be having difficultly setting up the hvmloader to create virtual images of other OSes. The reason for that, is I'd like to put pfsense/m0n0wall as the virtual machine for Telesto, the firewall system. The reason for those choices is they have very nice user-based access, in which I can grant access to VMs based behind a NAT to allow them to open up ports for themselves.

Depending on how much resources is required, I don't plan on charging at all. The Hyperion image, which right now has its own dedicated IP (because I still have a spare), is getting 10G disk, 192M memory, and 1G of swap that he isn't to really use, but is there because, what the hell, I have 350G of disk space still unallocated. But, he only has access to one processor, so if he does do a spinloop or something on his machine, I still have a full processor to run Calypso (the Xen master/soft RAID) and Titan (forums/email/my stuff). [As an idea, the unixshell system ran on 192M, and still was under the memory requirement with apache/mysql/postfix/bind.]

I probably plan on doing the same for others. CypherJF is even running a Java VM on his server, and it is has spare memory. Once I get a better understanding of what all I will be running on the system, I will allocate the rest of the ~3G of memory unallocated right now on the system that is only being used for disk cache by Calypso. Roughly, almost the whole disk is cached in memory right now, either on the VM's allocation or Calypso.

[Mine GO BOOM]

Anyone who would be interested in testing a VM behind VM system, go ahead and post here. A suggested layout for information that would be useful is as follows (quote it and remove the quote tags and these paragraphs).

Name is your name (sorry, I'll be naming your system). Description would be what you would use the system for (ASSS, MySQL, etc). Disk space is how much disk space you'd think you use, not what you want. I'll probably be giving at least 10G each, but if your purpose only needs 200M OS (average size for an X-less Linux) and 500M for ASSS + MySQL, only list 1G for your disk space. Distro choices can be anything free, such as Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, FreeBSD, etc. Memory usage, assume 40M for your core OS, then start adding on for how much each application you plan on running uses. If you are unsure of the sizes, just list your estimates for each so I can see how you got to your total and determine if you miss-guessed.

• Name:
  
• Description:
  
• Distro of choice:
  
• Disk space:
  
• Memory Usage:
  

[Solo Ace]

• Name: Solo Ace (I think? Or do you want my REAL name?)
  
• Description: MySQL/Apache (PHP5 -> GD2)/FTPd if you'd allow that
  
• Distro of choice: Gentoo
  
• Disk space: 1G would be ok, but I guess I'd be better off with a few Gs more
  
• Memory Usage: Nothing much, 512M (mostly swap) is more than enough
  

Hehe, I'd love to see how this goes.

[Maverick]

• Name: Maverick (I can give you more details by PM)
  
• Description:I want to use it for running Continuum-related programs.
  Software:
  
  • Java
    
  • Apache
    
  • MySQL
    
  • PHP
    
  • Optional: Subversion
  
  For exporting things from twcore.org I need Subversion but I can also use SVNKit which is a java svn-client.
  
  Applications:
  
  • a TWCore (Mem: +/- 50 MB, 100 MB max.)
    
  • TWCore.org's javadoc (not a persistent process)
    
  • Smong's news ticker (Mem: +/- 16 MB)
  
  
• Distro of choice: Ubuntu/Debian
  
• Disk space: 10G is more then enough
  
• Memory Usage: Quite high but I think I should manage with 192MB.
  

[Mine GO BOOM]

Let me note that you won't get your own IPs, but instead be behind a NAT like a home system. You'd just have access to a much faster connection. I probably should put in what ports you'd need.

Please note that memory is the most scarce resource on the system. So something like "Nothing much, 512M is more than enough" is a horrible estimate. As for applications you'd be running, you'd have your own VM. As long as you are not hosting porn, spamming, or anything to do with warez/viruses, it is all good. (IE: running bittorrent for free software is ok, for the latest TV shows is bad.) Remember, you have to be able to administer your own machine, I'm just going to setup the base system, network, and get you access to the console of the machine. You need to install SSH yourself.

[Maverick]

Would you also provide a nameserver to use with the VM or can I use bind in my own VM (I don't know anything when it comes to nameservers) because I want to use a domain (ss-network.net) or two with the VM if that's possible?

[Mine GO BOOM]

Hmm. Normally, I'd say you would be reponsible for it yourself, but then since you wouldn't be getting a real IP you can't do it yourself, as would conflict with others. I can setup a system for you to change your own domain's bind configurations, but it won't be as pretty as cpanel. Or if you want, can just setup a wildcard, so *.blah.com all gets forwarded to same IP, and can add exceptions when needed.

Remember, I'm not offering massive service. You won't get your own IP, but if 4 people want space for running game servers, and 2 people want to run Apache, I can overlap the two with port forwarding. And the service won't be permanent, so I'd recommend going with a shared host for webhosting. But no shared hosts will let you run a bot off their systems, and that is more for the idea of what I'm offering.

[Confess]

Should I post my application here? I sent it in a PM. Also, can you give us an estimate of how long you'll be offering it? (Perhaps if we paid?)

[Mine GO BOOM]

[BDwinsAlt]

Fill all other request before mine, but if you have an extra spot after all this.

# Name: BDwinsAlt (Brad)
# Description: Biller + ASSS (2 dev zones max)
# Distro of choice: DamnSmallLinux (50 MB ISO File)
# Disk space: 250-300 MB should be plenty.
# Memory Usage: 192 MB is enough.

[Preferred server name: Adonis: In mythology, the handsome youth loved by Venus. ]

Like I said, if a spot comes available or if you just feel like adding another one then I would appreciate it.

[Mine GO BOOM]

[Confess]

MGB, whats your paypal address?

[BDwinsAlt]

[Solo Ace]

[Mine GO BOOM]

[Maverick]

[Confess]

Dangit mGB, need I send money to random emails of yours hoping that it will land in a paypal account I WILL! lol