Updated November 2011: Kerplunc has turned off all its web-hosting related business including TinyVPS.ca. It’s now in the dead pool.
Via this WHT offer. This offer is from Kerplunc Inc, the same company that brought us SuperBytes, TinyVPS and FibreFirefly — $4/month Xen VPS under the brand of TinyVPS using coupon code TINYXEN (order link here).
- 64MB memory/128MB swap
- 5GB storage
- 50GB/month data transfer
- Xen/SolusVM
Servers are in Limestone Networks in Databank at Dallas TX. Interestingly it uses KSplice which allows admins to update and patch Linux kernel without rebooting — something hosting providers ought to consider to maximise the uptime (although at a cost).
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Is KSplice only an option if we opt for Ubuntu in the Xen containers? Or will CentOS support KSplice at the dirt-cheap price also?
I think KSplice is only used on the nodes, not on the vps themselves. It’s a unmanaged service so that’s your own choice.
I believe KSplice works on both host node and the virtualized nodes. It is however important for the host node to have continuous uptime. I can’t believe how many times my OpenVZ VPS needs a reboot because the host OS gets a kernel update.
It depends on how they run Xen. If they’re running in HVM or pvm with pvgrub/pygrub then each vps runs it’s own kernel. So if they update the node’s kernel, your vps will not have it’s kernel updated.
If they run default xen pvm mode however, your vps will use the same kernel as it’s node.
Ofcourse either way you’ll have downtime if they upgrade the host node kernel so KSplice is a big plus.
(why can’t I edit my comments?)
Just thought i’d clear things up on the Ksplice debate
We run Ksplice on all of our nodes – not inside the VPS themselves.
We also run Ksplice on our OpenVZ nodes so in that case they would actually effect the kernel inside the VPS.
Been using these for two months, and loving them.
I had around 50 days of uptime, but due to some data-centre issues in the London DC, the node was migrated. No disruption was done as maintenance was performed in the early hours of the morning and Kerplunc was quick to give me my new IP.
All in all very happy, but I can’t seem to get MySQL to work, possible due to memory exhaustion while using apt-get (my problem, not tinyvps’).
MySQL now works, as it was me that had broken the my.cnf — Wasn’t a memory exhaustion problem. If anyone needs a VPS, I shall definitely be recommending.
*thumbsup*
They have been down for the past few days. Any one know what the story is?
Their website is still working. You meant your VPS with them is down? Contacted Matt from Kerplunc Hosting?
Their website’s always been a bit flakey. My VPS with them is up.
01:34:29 up 29 days, 22:31, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.08, 0.08
Kerplunc Inc seems to be down?
– kerplunc.com
– tinyvps.com
– superbytes.net
– fiberfirefly.com
All appears offline.
The server their websites are on is always going up and down. My VPS with them is still up, as is the control panel.
Yeah. Just that all kerplunc sites are down at the same time for over a day now. A bit worrying, as they have been around the budget VPS space for quite a long time.
Yeah, I’d be a bit annoyed if they vanished, the service I’ve had over the last year or so has been pretty good. It’s only my irc bnc VPS, but 99% of providers don’t allow IRC whatsoever, so finding another stable VPS that does might be a bit of a pain.
I do automatic backups every 6 hours on all my VPS that get rsync’d to a box I just use for backups and mucking around, and those backups are then downloaded locally. I’m trying to think of low-cost/free places I can mirror the backups to, for a little more redundancy.
Good news!
http://www.kerplunchosting.com/
Which explains why their sites are all down, but their VPS nodes are up. Hopefully I won’t have to find a new host for my IRC VPS!
Thanks for relaying the message!
Thanks for fixing my tags. ;)
Typo – “sometihng” at the last line
Thanks for spotting. That’s the problem when you do most of your blog posting in vi (no real time spell checking) and forgot to call up aspell before posting :P
How do you get from vi to wordpress? Copy and paste?
I did quite a bit of browsing on w3m (a text based terminal). When it gets into a textarea, it invokes $EDITOR to let you edit the text, which in my case it’s ViM.
VPSes down for days, dead?
I have a VPS with them in the UK, it’s fine.
TinyVPS is ending, I got an email a few minutes ago (either a Matthew or Martin) saying since hosting was taken over they haven’t been paying the bills or replying to customer support tickets so its closing down on 30th September.
Just a quick notification to let you guys know, I’m sure emails are going out to everyone.
The domain tinyvps.ca has been expired
Yeah, we’ve known for a while now that they were on the way out. Service was OK when they were actually manned, but after the company was sold it went to shit, as they so often do. :/