[OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone running OI on VPS?

[Judah Richardson]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 9:47 AM cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss <
openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:

> Do you run OI on VPS or dedicated server?
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Dedicated server.

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> Does OI suitable to run on a VPS at all?
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Don't see why not.

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> It seems normal cheap VPS plan of many host providers will be not enough.
> OI takes much more disk space than Linux because of Boot Environments. So
> it seems I will need to upgrade the storage plan. OI also needs more memory
> to work because of pkg so I will need more memory, too. This end up with a
> not cheap at all VPS whose resources (cores, memory, storage space) will be
> same same as my home PC.
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I've only ever had space problems when I had OI on a 32 GB SSD. I migrated
to a 128 GB SSD and have had no such issues since.

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> If it's so, does a dedicate server should be more preferred?
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> But if it's the case, why someone consider running OI in the first place
> instead of Linux since Linux is a much cheaper option?
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Personal preference.

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> I'm talking about normal KVM host providers here.
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> I have no idea about the cloud (AWS, GCE, Azure,...) at all.
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