is there any cheaper if i pay for 1year ?
from augusta, ga, i have you all beat. 2 hops
$ traceroute vps.peoples
=)
traceroute to vps.peoples (174.136.105.162), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  gw (10.70.1.1)  3.246 ms  2.387 ms  1.644 ms
 2  174.136.105.162 (174.136.105.162)  113.821 ms  88.413 ms  88.415 ms
dferris_... what did you get, and what are you putting on it?
It's the 1 GB of memory one
and it's going to have FreeBSD 8.1
right now I have a VPS with RootBSD that is the same price with 512 MB of memory
seemed like a no brainer to me
zfs for root?
I haven't decided yet
I'm really liking that.
have it that way on four VPS at Arp
I should
and I have lots of snapshots :)
:)
every 10 minutes for 3 hours.  every half hour for 3 days.  every day for 3 months.
etc
RandalSchwartz: I'm sure I've asked before, but did you have to do any zfs-related tuning?
I haven't yet.
zfs is easy to tune
I just used all the defaults
"you can tune a filesystem, but you can't tuna fish" :)
from "man tunefs"
that joke has been in there since 4.2bsd :)
plus I run a bunch of FreeBSD KVM VMs for work
I think it qemu's emulation is bette than Xen's
azmarco: well now, isn't that just a tunnel?  No way it could really be two hops ;)
KVM virtualization is way better than Xen
I converted all my Xen boxes to KVM earlier this year
xens HVM support is abysmal
if you are not using the hypvervisor, xen is basically worthless
yup
xen bridged the gap between cpus incapable of KVM and cpus capable of KVM, at the price of os kernel / driver invasion. KVM has no such price, and cpus supporting KVM are easy to come by these days. game over, bye xen.
if only something other than linux had kvm support *grin*
but hey, it works well enough that there are happy people and a nice arpnetworks to take advantage of the kvm niceness
yep toddf
my traceroute from my desk to this machine... 9 hops, but 1.7 ms :)
nice
I believe the fourth hop is via a 5-block-long dark fiber that connects us to our cage at one wilshire
and from there, through xeex.net and misdivision.com to wilshire annex
average of 70ms for me
and im down in texas
hehe
I was trying to download http://arpnetworks.com/100mb.bin, and it stalled after 50MB
something wrong with arp's nets?
downloading from http://insightcruises.com/videos/Bluford2.mp4 - average speed 24megabit
154megabytes in 44 seconds
hi
any admin?:)
up_the_irons: ipsec tunnel indeed. but, 2 hops from GA beats almost everyone i imagine  =)
virtual hops != physical hops
at work, I'm only 7 physical hops
my vpn would make me one virtual hop, which is pointless
but, but 1 < 7!
oh, i know they're not the same
but i am still just 2 hops  =)
now ... if i redo that tunnel to go over ipv6, i'll go from about 24 hops to 2 hops
so speaking of KVM, what version of qemu does it take to get FreeBSD to do an acpi shutdown?
media center is awesome for dvd and bluray
it plays em automatically
shows you the info on the movie
pretty cool
very good quality
atom and nvidia ion++
dferris - whatever arp is running
but I thought they weren't running qemu
KVM is kvm drivers + qemu for the emulation
at least that's how I do it at work