September 14, 2020 @ 4:00 am, by raindog308
Years ago, most providers offered SolusVM and OpenVZ templates. We’ve come a long way! Now even small providers have custom-developed features that rival the major public clouds. From block storage to custom ISOs to the ability to move your VM across a continent (or to a different one!) with the press of a button, there are a lot of features and capabilities that providers are bringing to the table.
Which of them matter the most to you? Please vote and inform our provider community what matters to you!
Note: You can select a maximum of four features, so please indicate those that are most important.
raindog308
I'm Andrew, techno polymath and long-time LowEndTalk community Moderator. My technical interests include all things Unix, perl, python, shell scripting, and relational database systems. I enjoy writing technical articles here on LowEndBox to help people get more out of their VPSes.
I’d like to see GPU in on the list.
IPv6 is a show stopper for me.
It seems only US is not ready for IPv6
For me, location are peering are #1
I mean location AND peering are my #1
Big feature for me is a firewall, like on Vultr and what Linode is introducing. I know I can set up a firewall on my VPS but having it on the “network” is nice and is usually easier to set up.
A firewall may slow down the server a little bit, but is essential that’s something you can install while setup the server.
I never try it on Vultr or Linode but it’s not that hard to install it via terminal.
I voted for DDOS protection, which I think can be pretty important these days.
That’s true but DDoS Protection can be also optional bought from another provider such as DDoS Protection with Cloudflare and you can set the DNS to be pointed to Cloudflare as an extra layer of security.
not just Cloudflare, there are other alternatives as well.
Ability to Upload a Custom ISO is actually is the most important and do not see all providers have this option, which is important.
Can you please share why a custom ISO is important? Isn’t it most mainstream Linux distri are usually provided?
>Can you please share why a custom ISO is important?
I believe for most people the answer will be around the lines of “I use XYZ operating system which usually is not well represented. In my case that would be FreeBSD. Also, if I wanted to try something even less common like OpenBSD or DragonFly it is highly unlikely those would be supported almost anywhere outside of loading an ISO.