IRC log for #gllug on 20140210

09:30.11morsingAnyone here use Mythic Beasts VPS?
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13:26.50wethrinmorsing: Yes-ish. An organisation I'm involved with has one
13:29.02dick_turpinmorsing: Are you North or South of the Barrier?
13:37.05morsingdick_turpin: North
13:37.13morsingwethrin: Ok, any good?
13:42.16dick_turpinmorsing: So you won't be drowning then?
13:43.43wethrinmorsing: I've not noticed any problems
13:44.01wethrinMythic tend to generally be recommended as competent
13:45.13morsingIs it powerful enough? Which one do you have?
13:50.41wethrinIt does what we need it. Which is running postfix, and mysql/wordpress
13:50.59wethrinMysql falls over if it's inundated with people trying to break into wordpress
13:51.10wethrinNot sure which one we've got. The cheapest virtual server, I think
13:51.13wethrin20GB disk or so?
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14:06.39morsingwethrin: They've got 2: 100GB and 1TB
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17:33.06wethrinmorsing: We've got an old package
17:55.03morsingwethrin: I'm just amazed at the low price, compared to my colo
17:55.19wethrinYou've got a real machine in colo, though, haven't you?
17:55.19morsing1TB disk, 4 vCPUs
17:55.25morsingYes
17:55.34wethrinYeah. That takes up rack space and power
17:55.47wethrinAnd with a VPS, you can have, say, 10 virtual machines in the same space
17:55.58wethrinSo each VM can be 1/10 of the cost
17:56.06morsingErmmm... Hardly
17:56.27wethrinWhich bit are you disagreeing with?
17:56.58morsingHaving 10 virtual machines in a 1U of those specs.
17:57.07wethrinAh, but the resources are shared
17:57.12morsing...
17:57.52wethrinFor most systems, the CPU sits idle a significant chuck of the time
17:58.07wethrinJust with fairly short burts of activity
17:58.46wethrinSo when one VM is idle, another VM may be more active
18:01.09morsingGod people are dumb (about giraffe story)
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