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ordering closed until I figure out this paypal problem The NetBSD is still a lie. so is the gentoo The new (dual-xeon, i386-PAE) server is up, but there is a bit of a backlog. New customers get added to mirrored disk, old customers can be moved to mirroed disk at no charge, just ask.

Prgmr.com strongly reccomends you keep your own backups - currently prgmr.com does not back up customer data. (we hope to change this in the near future, but even then having your own backup space is a good thing) Mirrored disk is now available, but RAID is not a backup.

With the Xen hypervisor, every virtual server has it's own kernel, reserved RAM and minimum CPU. Like the FreeBSD jails, each virtual server can burst to use more CPU; but unlike the FreeBSD Jails, a Xen server can not 'burst' to use more RAM. This is because if another user needs the CPU, it can quickly give the other user the minimum cycles. It can not instantly take RAM away from another server, as flushing RAM to backing store (disk) is expensive and not-instant.

You also get your own kernel. You can load whatever loadable modules you want and you can even boot your image off of a custom kernel using pyGrub. Just leave your kernel on the /boot partition (sda or LABEL=PRGMRBOOT in our standard config) and then add your new kernel to /boot/grub/menu.lst, just like a real linux box. Of course, it does need to be a paravirtualized Xen kernel, and it does need to be i386/PAE.

See the details of CPU scheduling in my xen setup, if you want to see how I split the CPU among my users. Note, if the CPU is otherwise idle, you get up to 1 full CPU. This is just the minimum.

Users are authenticated to the serial console using the OpenSSH 'run command' functionality in authorized_keys. This means an OpenSSH format public key is required to give you access. When ordering a Xen image, use the following commands to generate a compatible SSH Public key:

then send us id_rsa.pub or copy and paste the contents into an email. We will allow only the owner of the related private key to log in to the serial console (IP will be sent to you after you sign up) and from there, you can add ssh users the normal way. If you use jailtime.org images (all the default OS choices are jailtime.org images) they default to a root password of 'password', but this is ok, because root can only login from the console, which we have secured above.

all new customers will be setup on mirrored sata disk (if you notice, disk allocations have been cut in half) If you think this was a bad idea, please email me.

Price structure and ordering of prgmr.com brand Virtual Private Servers:

Limited time special; the first month is free:
prgmr.com is still something of a mess; the paypal subscriptions are set to give you a month free before it starts billing you (I like the paypal subscriptions, though, as they make it much easier for me to keep track of when people signed up,etc...) If paypal does try to bill you the first month, please email lsc@prgmr.com and I'll sort it out.

$5/month, 64Megabytes RAM,
5 Gigabyte disk, 20 Gigabyte Transfer:
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$9/month, 128Megabytes RAM,
10 Gigabyte disk, 40 Gigabyte Transfer:
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$17/month, 256Megabytes RAM,
20 Gigabyte disk, 80 Gigabyte Transfer:
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$33/month, 512Megabytes RAM,
40 Gigabyte disk, 160 Gigabyte Transfer:
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automatic ordering is enabled again, but please note, we are currently 32-bit PAE only- the non-pae server for NetBSD is still in the pipeline. e-mail support@prgmr.com if you have problems.
Extras:

Our provisioning is mostly manual. If our shopping cart doesn't support what you want, please email support@prgmr.com, and we will do this manually.

After you pay for your VPS, please send an OpenSSH public key to support@prgmr.com (we will verify with the payment address) and we will give you access to the terminal server where your ssh key will allow you access to the console of your brand new Xen image.

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