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title: VPS adventures part one
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date: 2010-10-24 23:40:32
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tags: [dmehosting, server, ubuntu, virtualization, vps]
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category: server
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As every person in the software industry I need ways to promote my humble
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self. A decent web page and online resume plus a blog maybe are a must
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these days. The question remains where to put them.
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Previously I had my site published within one of the polish hosting
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companies for free, as my friend was involved in its operations. Thanks
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[Kajetan](http://www.kajetanwandowicz.com/) for 5 years of support !
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And maybe it'd stay that way if not of that desire of mine to tinker and
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have control of every aspect of the technology power. Some platform with
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ability to boot the system I want up would be appreciated.
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Real servers are good when you have a place to put them. And want to pay
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electricity bills, provide UPS, KVM, BGP and other three-letter
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abbreviations. And oh, I simply don't like the fan noise
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anymore. [VPS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_server)
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then it is.
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Since I recently made contact with Ubuntu Server edition and liked it
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for its simplicity, I started searching for a cheap VPS which supports
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the newest Ubuntu. Two googles later I found
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[dmehosting.com](http://www.dmehosting.com/). 6$ for 25Gigs of space
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and 256MB RAM seemed ok, so I bougth the VPS1 plan. Payment went without
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problems, they support PayPal. With 6$ less on my account I was waiting
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for them to give me the IP + login & password. I didn't expect that I
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would take the whole day long.
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My first contact with the machine was that of apt-get update, which
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failed. Because of lack of network connectivity. I was logged by ssh to
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that machine, so definitely some sort of connectivity had to be in
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place. I dug into and found not working DNS servers, so I made VPS
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connect to the other ones and everything started working. I jumped into
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their 'live' tech support line just to hear that it was really bad of me
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to change the resolv.conf and I just shouldn't do that. In the meanwhile
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their DNSes went back so I in fact did revert the resolv.conf after all.
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It's [OpenVZ](http://wiki.openvz.org/Main_Page>)-based hosting, so
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policy of "no-no's" is pretty much embedded in the very system. No
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kernel reinstallation. No swap space. No system clock write access. No
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clicking too fast in the administration panel. Back to google then my search for VPS
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is. Stay tuned for the next part.
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