Testing Out Vultr
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Nice, easy to use console too. So well suited for SMBs and VPS usage.
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Well, they look professional.
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After the first install, I did a yum update and the system was already totally patched on initial install. Woot. Small, but a nice touch.
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Thanks for posting screenies.
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The use of SSH Keys is very nice too and very much required for normal cloud usage. Without it, access would be a problem. With the integrated keys, you build an instance and can access it, without a password, instantly from your normal SSH client. I've gotten used to this with the enterprise clouds and it is a feature I do not like to be without. Very glad to see that here.
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The support custom ISOs as well, which is a nice feature.
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I like that we have IPv6 too. And Reverse DNS management too.
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Some post install details:
# free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 993 81 376 12 535 763 Swap: 0 0 0By default, no swap space is installed. Not an uncommon way to go. Only 81MB used after install process and a few packages installed (sysstat, htop, fail2ban, etc.) So this is memory usage after SAR is running.
EPEL is installed on initial install and does not need to be added.
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Filesystem usage:
# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/vda1 20G 1.3G 18G 7% / devtmpfs 489M 0 489M 0% /dev tmpfs 497M 0 497M 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 497M 13M 484M 3% /run tmpfs 497M 0 497M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 497M 13M 484M 3% /etc/machine-id -
@scottalanmiller said:
The support custom ISOs as well, which is a nice feature.
This was the first thing i noticed!
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@scottalanmiller said:
After the first install, I did a yum update and the system was already totally patched on initial install. Woot. Small, but a nice touch.
@scottalanmiller said:
EPEL is installed on initial install and does not need to be added.
I would prefer a 100% clean, minimal install, but I guess I can do that with a custom ISO if I had to.
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@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
After the first install, I did a yum update and the system was already totally patched on initial install. Woot. Small, but a nice touch.
@scottalanmiller said:
EPEL is installed on initial install and does not need to be added.
I would prefer a 100% clean, minimal install, but I guess I can do that with a custom ISO if I had to.
I agree, I am torn on this one. I don't see any packages from the EPEL installed, only the EPEL itself. So as non-minimal installs go it seems to be pretty tiny. But it is so easy to install when you need it that I agree, would be best to not have it, I think.
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@scottalanmiller said:
The support custom ISOs as well, which is a nice feature.
This means things like Elastix should be a snap to setup on their infrastructure.
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@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
The support custom ISOs as well, which is a nice feature.
This means things like Elastix should be a snap to setup on their infrastructure.
Absolutely. And CentOS 5 is available too, for things like Elastix 2.
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That is one of the advantages of not having paravirtalization and going with KVM full virtualization, custom ISOs are easy.
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@scottalanmiller said:
The support custom ISOs as well, which is a nice feature.
Awesome. So in theory you could do your on backups (via unitrends etc.) and boot via the recovery media to restore if needed.
