Xen hosting provider

Xen hosting provider

[Matt Ayres]

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Hi,

TekTonic has started up a provider hosting virtual machines based off of Xen as a service on www.unixshell.com.  I'm just mentioning this as a heads up, not meant to advertise :)    So far all the users are loving it and except for some minor issues related to Xen everything has performed very well and has been stable.  Good job guys!

Thanks,
Matt

(And yes, I did try contacting XenSource regarding giving some money back in the form of a support contract but didn't get a response.  *sigh* .. at least I tried).

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Re: Xen hosting provider

[Matt Ayres]

> What versions did you use for prodution system (xen-2.0.4, testing,
> unstable)?

2.0-testing.. we track the changelogs to look for major fixes and then 
update.

> Are you able to put I/O limit on it (disk, NW BW)? It will be essential 
> for shared environment (UML has it, but not Xen, last time I check).
>

I'd give it a 9/10 as far as being fair for CPU (BVT).  The disk I/O seems 
to work very well. I know it's just basic right now so it will be 
interesting to see it in a more advanced state.   I figured it would kill 
things when a lot of VM's start swapping, but that has not been a problem 
yet as long as the host has a very fast disk I/O systsem.  As far as Network 
QoS, you can just use tc tools.

> Regards,
>
> Fajar
> 



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Re: Xen hosting provider

[Anton Titov]

Hi,

while we're at this subject, I tell you, that we're happily selling Xen 
VPSes too for something like month and a half now. We're selling them 
only in Bulgaria, so for now I have only 4 VPS clients, which is OK, as 
our primary business is shared hosting, but VPS clients seems to be 
happy at least they should be, we had no network or server downtime for 
this time ;) Just wanted to tell you that everything works for me and is 
very stable, having in mind that in addition to the clients, I have 2 
more VPSes for internal use and one of them hosts quite loaded web-based 
strategy game, which generates ~1million quite complex dynamic 
(php/mysql, mysql is executing 800queries/sec on average, many more in 
peak hours) pages. I'm using xen 2.0.4 and for now do not have any plans 
to upgrade when xen 2.0.5 is out.

Sorry for taking your time but as I read this maillist, I read only 
about problems, just wanted to tell you, that there are people who do 
not have any and are very happy with xen (after trying UML with it's 
terrible performance).

Regards,
Anton Titov

Matt Ayres wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> TekTonic has started up a provider hosting virtual machines based off 
> of Xen as a service on www.unixshell.com <http://www.unixshell.com>.  
> I'm just mentioning this as a heads up, not meant to advertise :)    
> So far all the users are loving it and except for some minor issues 
> related to Xen everything has performed very well and has been 
> stable.  Good job guys!
>  
> Thanks,
> Matt
>  
> (And yes, I did try contacting XenSource regarding giving some money 
> back in the form of a support contract but didn't get a response.  
> *sigh* .. at least I tried).
>
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Xen works fine (was: Xen hosting provider)

[Goetz Bock]

I just wanted to provie some more positive feedback. My two Xen
instalations just work fine. No problem, except for the known (e.g. the
broken bridge setup). I'm running Xen 2.0.4 on Debian Sarge using the
xen package provided by Adam Heath, with my own 2.6.10 based kernel(s).
One system is productive, but with very low load, the other is testing.

I will update the testing system to 2.0.5 STS.

On Thu, Mar 10 '05 at 17:51, Anton Titov wrote:
> Sorry for taking your time but as I read this maillist, I read only 
> about problems, just wanted to tell you, that there are people who do 
> not have any and are very happy with xen (after trying UML with it's 
> terrible performance).
I'm also running 5 UML servers but will most likely migrate them to Xen,
as time permits.
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