[Dxspider-support] DXSpider at a hosting provider?

[Brendan Minish]

The KVM and XEN guests do have consoles, take a look in initab to see
which ones are defined in your distro 

My own notes are here (based entirely on installations into KVM guests )

centos 6 
http://wiki.dxcluster.org/index.php/Centos6

Centos 5 
http://wiki.dxcluster.org/index.php/Centos5

hope this helps 



On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 13:42 +0200, Ton Machielsen wrote:
> Contracted a VPS and all seem to be working fine. How did you
> configure the console redirection? I can send console to /dev/null,
> but then i cannot gracefully shut down the cluster.
> Also, how did you manage to test if the cluster is still alive and if
> not, restart it? Using wget/curl? Another way? Just collecting ideas.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Ton.
> 
> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Brendan Minish
> <ei6iz.brendan at gmail.com> wrote:
>         EI7MRE runs on a virtual server in London
>         
>         but in the past I have run it on a Virtual server in the US
>         (slicehost
>         as I recall).
>         
>         basically with XEN or KVM based virtual server you have full
>         root access
>         to a linux box running the distribution of your choice
>         
>         Start-up scripts etc work as expected and it's been reliable.
>         Cost-wise it's on par with paying for the electricity to run
>         an older
>         machine at home to provide a DXCluster
>         
>         
>         I am using tagadab in the UK
>         http://www.tagadab.com/
>         I use their VS250 package to run ei7mre and host a few other
>         small
>         services, they have been pretty reliable and on the rare
>         occasions when
>         there have been issues they have always responded to me
>         quickly with
>         honest answers
>         
>         
>         
>         On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 17:14 +0200, Ton Machielsen wrote:
>         > Hi!
>         >
>         >
>         > I am thinking about running my node on a server at a hosting
>         provider.
>         > Is anyone doing that? What kind of hosting plans to you use
>         for that?
>         > Shared hosting usually doesn't allow for installation of
>         custom
>         > software or Perl modules. Virtual hosting or dedicated
>         hosting does,
>         > but what do you do with console access? As far as i
>         understand
>         > DXSpider requires access to a TTY, is that correct?
>         >
>         >
>         > Any ideas?
>         >
>         >
>         > Thanks,
>         >
>         >
>         > Ton.
>         
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