Testing Out Vultr

scottalanmiller

Nice, easy to use console too. So well suited for SMBs and VPS usage.

Screen Shot 2015-05-09 at 3.53.02 PM.png

nadnerB

Well, they look professional.

scottalanmiller

After the first install, I did a yum update and the system was already totally patched on initial install. Woot. Small, but a nice touch.

nadnerB

Thanks for posting screenies.

scottalanmiller

The use of SSH Keys is very nice too and very much required for normal cloud usage. Without it, access would be a problem. With the integrated keys, you build an instance and can access it, without a password, instantly from your normal SSH client. I've gotten used to this with the enterprise clouds and it is a feature I do not like to be without. Very glad to see that here.

scottalanmiller

@nadnerB said:

Thanks for posting screenies.

No problem!

scottalanmiller

The support custom ISOs as well, which is a nice feature.

scottalanmiller

I like that we have IPv6 too. And Reverse DNS management too.

scottalanmiller

Some post install details:

# free -m
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            993          81         376          12         535         763
Swap:             0           0           0

By default, no swap space is installed. Not an uncommon way to go. Only 81MB used after install process and a few packages installed (sysstat, htop, fail2ban, etc.) So this is memory usage after SAR is running.

EPEL is installed on initial install and does not need to be added.

scottalanmiller

Filesystem usage:

# df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1        20G  1.3G   18G   7% /
devtmpfs        489M     0  489M   0% /dev
tmpfs           497M     0  497M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           497M   13M  484M   3% /run
tmpfs           497M     0  497M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs           497M   13M  484M   3% /etc/machine-id

JaredBusch

@scottalanmiller said:

The support custom ISOs as well, which is a nice feature.

This was the first thing i noticed!

JaredBusch

@scottalanmiller said:

After the first install, I did a yum update and the system was already totally patched on initial install. Woot. Small, but a nice touch.

@scottalanmiller said:

EPEL is installed on initial install and does not need to be added.

I would prefer a 100% clean, minimal install, but I guess I can do that with a custom ISO if I had to.

scottalanmiller

@JaredBusch said:

@scottalanmiller said:

After the first install, I did a yum update and the system was already totally patched on initial install. Woot. Small, but a nice touch.

@scottalanmiller said:

EPEL is installed on initial install and does not need to be added.

I would prefer a 100% clean, minimal install, but I guess I can do that with a custom ISO if I had to.

I agree, I am torn on this one. I don't see any packages from the EPEL installed, only the EPEL itself. So as non-minimal installs go it seems to be pretty tiny. But it is so easy to install when you need it that I agree, would be best to not have it, I think.

JaredBusch

@scottalanmiller said:

The support custom ISOs as well, which is a nice feature.

This means things like Elastix should be a snap to setup on their infrastructure.

scottalanmiller

@JaredBusch said:

@scottalanmiller said:

The support custom ISOs as well, which is a nice feature.

This means things like Elastix should be a snap to setup on their infrastructure.

Absolutely. And CentOS 5 is available too, for things like Elastix 2.

scottalanmiller

That is one of the advantages of not having paravirtalization and going with KVM full virtualization, custom ISOs are easy.