Yearly with InterNAP in Chicago

[Nikki]

I'm looking for a (preferably cheap) yearly vps with pretty low specs (128MB ram and 5GB of space with 100-200GB of bandwidth would do just fine) to tunnel through while playing on my server community, since my ISP has been having problems recently and it's getting pretty annoying.

I've looked around and have found a basic idea for a provider (Chicago + Internap) based on a server I have played on recently (which has the lowest latency I've seen coming from Michigan, however this is NFOServers and a bit more expensive but not bad if used for other things too).



Tracing route to c-72-5-195-47.managed-vds.internap-chicago.nfoservers.com [72.5.195.47]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms LOCAL [192.168.1.1]
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 1137 ms 1188 ms 1102 ms *-*-*-*.lightspeed.gdrpmi.sbcglobal.net [*.*.*.*]
4 28 ms 35 ms 27 ms 75.29.192.86
5 29 ms 30 ms 31 ms 12.83.33.129
6 35 ms 34 ms 36 ms ggr4.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.133.33]
7 31 ms 32 ms 32 ms ae3.chi11.ip4.tinet.net [173.241.128.29]
8 34 ms 31 ms 30 ms xe-1-0-0.chi12.ip4.tinet.net [89.149.187.90]
9 33 ms 32 ms 33 ms internap-gw.ip4.tinet.net [77.67.70.2]
10 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms border6.po2-bbnet2.chg.pnap.net [64.94.32.75]
11 33 ms 31 ms 32 ms c-72-5-195-47.managed-vds.internap-chicago.nfoservers.com [72.5.195.47]

Trace complete.


If you have any ideas or links to providers/test IP addresses I would love to check them out.

Budget is likely around $30 a year.

 

[Nett]

Budget? There are many providers who offer 128MB VPS under $10/year.

 

[Nikki]

Budget? There are many providers who offer 128MB VPS under $10/year.

Something $10-$30 a year would be best. I don't expect it needing much more than 100-200GB of bandwidth per month (I'd likely be routing like 5GB per month through it, max), but it HAS to be something with a good connection to home as the main concern here is lowering latency.

Edit: Someone pointed out SecureDragon (It has Tinet which is apparently what makes the connection so good), I'll check em out

 

[drmike]

Eyeball Anynode.   Impressed with their network / in general region.

 

[Nett]

Try BlueVM's Blue 0.5, use the Chicago location.

 

[KuJoe]

Here are our test IPs for our Chicago location if you want to test the latency:

IPv4: 162.211.66.4

IPv6: 2602:fff6:2::b0f0:fb62

 

[Nikki]

Here are our test IPs for our Chicago location if you want to test the latency:

IPv4: 162.211.66.4

IPv6: 2602:fff6:2::b0f0:fb62

Looks great, I'll likely be ordering later today/early tomorrow

PING 162.211.66.4 (162.211.66.4) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 162.211.66.4: icmp_req=1 ttl=53 time=31.6 ms
64 bytes from 162.211.66.4: icmp_req=2 ttl=53 time=30.9 ms
64 bytes from 162.211.66.4: icmp_req=3 ttl=53 time=30.4 ms
64 bytes from 162.211.66.4: icmp_req=4 ttl=53 time=31.4 ms

--- 162.211.66.4 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 30.461/31.133/31.691/0.485 ms

 

[KuJoe]

Don't forget to use the vpsBoard coupon that's floating around: vpsboard10

 

[Nikki]

Don't forget to use the vpsBoard coupon that's floating around: vpsboard10

Hah, that's unfortunate. A minute after I ordered (at 11:46 PM) I reloaded this page and noticed that

 

[KuJoe]

Fixed it for you (and added the promo to my sig so it's not so hidden). My way of saying thanks for writing the code that powers our internal monitoring (status).

 

[Nikki]

Fixed it for you (and added the promo to my sig so it's not so hidden). My way of saying thanks for writing the code that powers our internal monitoring (status).

May be too early to tell, but a 60ms connection to the servers means it's working quite well, thanks

You should also check out https://github.com/nikkiii/status2 when I finish the RRD stuff, should be quite a bit better

 

[KuJoe]

60ms? That's almost double the ping tests you did, can you do a traceroute to see where the extra latency is coming from?

I integrated Cacti into Status and added network and hardware monitoring so it's evolved quite a bit from your release 2 years ago.

 

[Nikki]

60ms? That's almost double the ping tests you did, can you do a traceroute to see where the extra latency is coming from?

I integrated Cacti into Status and added network and hardware monitoring so it's evolved quite a bit from your release 2 years ago.

Actually the ping is 30ms, the 60ms is the total to my server community over vpn which is the main reason I got it, way better than the 80-90 on a different vpn

 

[KuJoe]

Oh ok, I was worried for a minute there.