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1. General sense of host's cluefulness in interaction/discussion forum. 2. General sense that provider has been around for a while and other users are happy with them. 3. Nothing too obnoxious in TOS 4. I have to admit liking cheap hardware resources (mostly in dedicated servers, given how...

How about using Gitit (http://gitit.net ) for the wiki.  The cool thing is that the backing store is a git repository, so everyone can have their own copy that they update with "git pull" whenever they want.

One suggestion (not trying to diss you, just a word to the wise): tech support work in IT mostly means answering written tickets, which means it works in your favor if you're careful with spelling and grammar in your initial post.  I saw "don't have to be paided", "I currently attending" etc...

Usually one handles this with replication and journaling.  Depending on what you're doing you might consider a distributed, redundant db like Mongo or Cassandra or Riak.

Books and solo exercises only get you to a certain point.  After that, you have to work on big programs and collaborate with others.  One straightforward way is: find any free/open source Python program that interests you, check its bug tracker and start fixing stuff and submitting patches. ...

I guess Fossil (fossil-scm.org) is the most LEB-appropriate.  It is a git/wiki/ticket system that runs in about 1 meg of ram.  It's trivial to set up and it's brilliant.

OK.  At least here in the US, debit cards are processed a bit differently from credit cards, and if the button says "debit card", people will tend to read it as "debit card only--credit cards not accepted".  So you might want to update that.

I'd go for mediawiki because I'm pretty used to it.  Is there an extension to let users control individual pages?  There was another thread suggesting a vps database that hosts would update with their offers and people could browse.  It seems to me, that could also be done with a wiki page per...

Payment methods shown on the order page include Paypal, Google Checkout, and "Debit card" (I guess that means Stripe).   But your post mentions credit cards are accepted via Stripe.  Some clarification would be helpful.

Seems too complicated.  Why not just put up a wiki where providers can edit pages related to their products?

You have 1 month, 6 month, and 12 month signup possibilities.  How about adding 3 months?

I don't think this makes much sense if you're just trying to set up something reliable and practical (each vps is a new potential failure point).  It does seem interesting as a dev/ops/sysadmin exercise in setting up a server from multiple subsystems.  There's not really tutorials per se that I...

All the big hosting places (EC2, Rackspace, etc.) seem to use Xen.  I don't know why. OpenStack may be Xen specific. I know where I work we use Virtualbox for some of our stuff.  I'm not sure whether that's based off Xen or what. Xen PV has some cool clients called Unikernels that let you run...

vpsboard.com :)

Re OVH and Hetzner: a VPS host with a few colocated boxes is in a much different position regarding power costs than someone who owns a huge data center full of their own servers.  The colo customer is a captive market for a commodity that might be expensive in the first place (utility power in...

What about an mks 2g from kimsufi.ie?  You really can't afford 9.99 euro?  online.net also has something like that.  (Hmm these things may only have one ipv4 address).

Hmm maybe you're right.  You could email them and ask for sure.  The founder (Jake) is very responsive and I've had long discussions with him.

It's not openvz.  It may be Xen or something like that.

Can you grab something off the Hetzner robot?  https://robot.your-server.de/order/market Do you really need a hosted server at all?  Can you use a local workstation instead? Can you finish in less than a week, and be ok in what might be another virtualization container?  Uptano.com rents dedis...

AMD is quite cost competitive against low and midrange Intel processors that have about the same performance, but Intel is more power efficient, which is a big deal for servers, especially heavily loaded ones.  Small providers are doing good if they can get data center power for $20 an amp...