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title: VPS Adventures part two
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date: 2010-11-01 14:23:18
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tags: [server, tilaa, ubuntu, virtualization, vps]
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category: server
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After some not so pleasurable experiences with the previous VPS hosting
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provider I started my search for some other one. This time not only
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google was involved but also [aardvark](http://vark.com/) and some of
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the "top XX best hosting providers" sites. Two results kept showing up.
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[server4you](http://www.server4you.com/) and
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[tilaa](https://www.tilaa.nl/). Which one to choose then ? I wanted
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to give both of them a chance.
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[server4you](http://www.server4you.com/). I really tried to buy a VPS
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there and I failed. Lots of forms to fill and no instant money
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transfer available. I entered my credit card details only to receive the
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email after a day or so stating that they were unable to process my
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payment.
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[tilaa](https://www.tilaa.nl/). What caught my attention there was
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that clean website of them. I like such a design style, as you can also
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see it here. Not so cheap, I must admit, but definitely easy to buy.
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Payment transfered and after about a minute I had a full access to the
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VPS. That's how I like things to work. I am using tilaa's the most
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simple VPS plan since then and I am pretty happy with it. Here gathered
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are some things I like or don't about its services.
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- friendly, responsive staff
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- 2x RAM amount of swap space - seems great compared to no swap on other VPSes
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- [KVM](http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Main_Page)- and [qemu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU)-based, you get full control of your system
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- good overall system responsiveness - I experienced occasional lags when using [OpenVZ](http://wiki.openvz.org/Main_Page) virtualization before, there's no such thing here
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- they work fast - the day the new Ubuntu 10.10 was released, they had the VPS image ready !
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- their motto "We try to be good open source citizens" just convinces me
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- the only disadvantage is the price, it's 8.95 euro net montly, it's also easy to miss that info on the site
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As I already have a safe place to tinker with my system the real work on
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the server configuration begins. Stay tuned for the next episode.
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