Need recommendations for CHEAP VPS hosting which support ARchlinux?

phabulosa · 2010-05-02 06:47:21

I want to get a VPS hosting for less than $5/mo which supports Archlinux.
This VPS is purely for my personal usage. So, no need for large memory and allowed transfer.

Any recommendations?

orschiro · 2010-05-02 06:53:49

I think $5/month will be very difficult to find but you can always take a look at linode.com. It may be a bit over your price range but due to its service and quality it's definitely worth it.

Regards

dcc24 · 2010-05-02 07:20:25

I second Linode. You'll pay a little extra, but it'll most definitely worth it.

mikesd · 2010-05-02 07:24:42

If you find anything decent for $5 a month let me know.

Until then I also recommend Linode of which I am a happy customer. Perhaps you could go in with a couple of people and share the node?

Stythys · 2010-05-03 18:34:26

linode ftw!

Sirupsen · 2010-05-03 19:22:27

I recently bought a VPS at Fivebean, they seem decent to the price. They didn't have Arch Linux when I first saw them, I dropped them a mail and they quickly added it. Great support, and really good prices.

6$/month for 128mb ram, 100gb bandwith, 5gb disk.

I have a Fivebean ref. link you are welcome to use. Else, go ahead and use the non-ref Link

Else there's TinyVPS, I don't know whether they support Arch Linux or not though.

5$/month for 64mb ram, 50gb bandwith, 5gb disk.

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orschiro · 2010-05-03 19:59:49

Wow fivebean looks sweet. Really low prices.

Your system is working fine?

Do they have any server administration panel?

This is what makes linode so nice.

Sirupsen · 2010-05-03 20:03:47

The only issue I've had so far is that the Arch Linux root password had some issues, fixed in 10 minutes via a ticket.

Here's a few screenshots of the control panel:

And yes, my system is working fine. My only downside is that the servers are located in Dallas Texas, resulting in a bit latency via SSH.

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Peasantoid · 2010-05-03 21:50:02

Linode is excellent in my experience, though I've never tried any other.

exiquio · 2010-05-04 01:50:05

Does Linode provide full shell access via ssh? From perusing the site I don't think it does, but I never used it.

Peasantoid · 2010-05-04 03:02:37

exiquio wrote:

Does Linode provide full shell access via ssh? From perusing the site I don't think it does, but I never used it.

Indeed it does.

rhys_rhaven · 2011-08-10 22:20:53

Wanted to chime in as I was searching for this. Intovps.com has 10$/mo vpses, 1CPU, 512MB ram, 1GB burst with 30GB of disk space and like 300GB of bandwidth. IIRC. Best specs/price I've found, and their support is quite snappy to fix things.

They support Archlinux, but they seem to have a slight issue where if you reboot it after some upgrades it doesn't allow you to ssh back in, as some files in /dev don't get regenerated.

da99 · 2011-08-30 11:25:34

1) SecureDragon: https://securedragon.net
I haven't tried them out yet. Great prices and good reputation. Reviews:
http://www.96mb.com/96mb-low-end-vps-re … re-dragon/
http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/secure-dr … ksonville/

2) IntoVPS.com
(Very quick response time. I consider them a hidden gem.)

The problem with ArchLinux on IntoVPS is specific to ArchLinux and initscripts. You should still be able to send commands using:

ssh me@server "mkdir something && mount it"

A temporary solution: http://forums.quantact.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=1149

The permanent solution is:
When you do "pacman -Syyu", you have to make sure to update the initscripts: "pacman -Syu initscripts". Sometimes, pacman saves them as .pacnew files. The "/etc/rc.sysinit.pacnew" and "/etc/inittab.pacnew" contains the commands to setup the /dev/pts mount that will allow you back in with ssh. Those should be safe to rename it as the original unless you customized them. Just keep a backup of the original, in case anything goes wrong. (If you don't see "/etc/inittab.pacnew", then it was installed automatically.)

Don't replace the "/etc/rc.conf". I know that one should *not* be replaced with the newer version. It was custom built for your machine. You should look at it and get familiar still look at it and compare it with the .pacnew version to see if you should include any new lines/commands.

Then reboot the machine.

More info. on .pacnew files: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … ng_Started

(I would also like to recommend IntoVPS. They and Linode are my two favorite choices. If you want lower prices, other budget VPS sometimes add ArchLinux to their offerings if you request it. )

Last edited by da99 (2011-09-02 14:46:21)

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