[155466] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anyone can suggest a good and reliable VPS provider in India
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Fri Aug 10 13:32:29 2012
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 10:31:30 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CADBQ9iBbq3WZmorKEwktjPQuC6aOdx_t2OFBz5j5R48cGR7UcQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 8/10/12 9:14 AM, fc lists wrote:
> Hi ...
>
> This is my last resort. Apologies if this have been discussed before or if
> is totally OT ... but i figured i could find some useful help here.
>
> I need to find a good VPS provider in India where to setup a small set of
> machines in a Virtual Internal Private network (L2TPD/IPSEC) and an
> extenrnal VPN to other sites with (IPinIP tunnels and IPSEC)
>
> after doing research on internet i decided to try out CTRLs (
> http://www.ctrls.com/) that looked the best in terms of ... everything.
> What looks the best is not always the best as it turns out ...
>
> I had all possible problems with them on any layer you can imagine ... from
> having a server deployed on XEN that would be moved to OPENVZ on rebuild
> (Bad but not the worst) ... to horrible packet loss to half of the world
> that basically made them unusable for anything serious.
>
> The only requirements i have is that the VPS should be close enough to
> MUMBAI (don't have an ISP there yet so can't really say "close to what" )
> and that their are reliable from a network point of view.
>
> Does anyone have any GOOD experience with VPS in india to share with me ?
>
Host Virtual (vr.org) has a location in India. I've had occasional
issues with them like sometimes the host server becomes i/o starved and
blocks for a minute or network connectivity randomly becomes lossy.
Nothing devastating, just a nuisance when it pages since I use it for
external telemetry. I just kind of let it slide most of the time though
because it's cheap.
~Seth
