I have had two nodes, 46079 & 41694 running on a Vultr VPS instance for almost 2 years now. I have the $5/mo 15gb SSD 1TB data plan and have had no issues. 41694 is my bridge (echolink/IRLP/AllStar) and 46079 is my HUB. And an Apache web server at kd0whb.duckdns.org On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:14 AM, Mike <mm@midnighteng.com> wrote:
1st. Thanks to everyone who took part in trying to test/flood that instance last night.
As some know all the ports on this instance were blocked but 22.
Just thought I should pass what I learned from the test. One thing I should have known better.
I never wanted to run a 512mb instance for myself. Just wanted to know if it could be done and the limits of it. I know for sure many were going to try it for the attractive $2,50 a month price tag.
Since you can quickly bump-up the resources, I figured..WHY NOT FIND OUT' initially anyway.
Now those that tested with us know that the ports were blocked on that instance for 29993
So I spent the night trying to find out what was up without sending a support ticket up the chain since I have 1 other 1gb instance 'running' that ran just fine. (29999) Deployed in New Jersey.
So I deployed 6 other instances last night to see if I could get some answers. It was bugging me.
And let me say, I should have known better than to test something like that without leaving it as a normal install that you guys might be typical of having, to get a result you might get yourself. But the night before I was loading other toys into the server when I ran into a issue and decided to stop because of that fact. It left it 'non-typical'.
But I did 'want' to be able to say something back to the group about what actually happened and looking back at it, I can not.
I found not only errors with my install as far as networking made more complicated with some of the DNS tricks I was doing with the domain name pointed at it. But some other type errors I found in the files. When that was fixed, I still had a problem.
SO, I can't really slight Vultr or the 512mb instance they have.
But for me, I must move on. I have a lot of stuff I want to deploy in a short time so I have to leave this alone for now.
So if anyone creates a 512mb instance that works, please tell the group. Lets do a real world load test on it. I was kinda thinking that the issue for me may have been the vultr 'location of server' since I also had issues with 1gb instances at the 'MIAMI' server location. But because of my botched launch's and not staying on standard, I can't say for sure so take that for what it's worth.
I never intended to run a 512mb instance, but thought it would be nice to know what it will handle. Since it is so easy to 'bump-up-the-resources' of any instance going up but not down, I wanted to test on the way up. Perhaps someone else will enlighten us since others have deployed these on VPS ? Please Do !
What you should use is dependent on what you intend to do with it.
If you are going to run other software/scripting that require more headroom, get the larger deployment of 1gb anyway.
For me for now, I just believe the issues were at the miami server location. And that is the only place the 512mb instance were available so I'm moving forward without knowing.
If you have deployed on a 512mb instance at vultr, and are having connectivity issues, I suggest creating a instance at other locations first and that may force you to bump-up to 1gb install if they are not available. I have had 0 issues with 1gb at New Jersey/New York on 4 test deployments. So if you don't want to waste time and can afford the $5 an month, go for the 1gb instance and stay away from the Miami server rack.
Sorry I can't say more but I've said enough, I think. Hope that saves some a little head-ache of your own.
But I feel strongly that these deployments will be a asset in the future, and encourage anyone to dabble with one.
To add to that, the deployment from ISO is pretty much flawless, thanks guys for the hard work !
73, your tired beta tester...LOL...
...mike/kb8jnm
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