On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 08:31, <Nezmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thank you for the openhosting link . They only charge for the bandwidth used and that's > cool . They also charge for RAM and HDD used (RAM is the most expensive). The interesting thing is that they use KVM, which is quite rare yet (found only a couple of other smaller providers that use KVM too). Arch's standard kernel runs in paravirtualized mode in KVM which is nice. With the active development of virtio-based drivers and RedHat going to provide an enterprise KVM-based platform I think KVM will become more popular in the future. > I contacted VPSVille yesterday wondering what arch(s) do they support .They have both > 32bit & 64bit kernels but unlike Debian Ubuntu and CentOS , they only offer i686 Arch > templates (and that piece of info took the support people sometime to figure out!!) oh, thanks for the info. > I wish Arch was a choice in serverpronto.com offerings . Hm, "The World’s Most Affordable Dedicated Server"... They even have 5$ promo server. :-) While thinking about it - it is possible to install Arch on any system (so any provider can be chosen), but that requires more work: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_From_Existing_Linux Xen: http://wiki.slicehost.com/doku.php?id=installing_an_arbitrary_linux_distro_on_your_slice OpenVZ: http://wiki.openvz.org/Archlinux_Template_creation -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
