We’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for being our customer and giving you a sneak peak at the resources available on the new plan before it is published.

Unfortunately we can’t share the info just yet, but we have been told that it will be posted on lowendbox.com in the coming days.

Update

Posted April 27

http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/openvz-ca-7month-512mb-openvz-vps-in-montreal-canada/

• 512MB RAM
• 256MB Swap
• 2 vCPU Core
• 20GB Raid1 Diskspace
• 500GB Bandwidth
• 200Mbps Port Speed
• 1 IPv4 Address
• 1 IPv6 Address
• OpenVZ/SolusVM
• $7/Month | Order Link

Current, or new users can select this template from SolusVM under the “Re-Install” tab. Once completed, all you need to do is login via ssh, start Apache with “service httpd start” command and point your browser to the IP address of your VPS.

Some of the benefits of hosting your own cloud for files (like ownCloud) include:

• Full control of your files
• Secure server which you have root access to
• Privacy
• Eliminate DropBox
• More professional
• Keep your digital rights to photos

What does ownCloud allow me to do?

For starters, you can use it as a secure replacement for DropBox, and you can even password protect the URL’s you send to other users in-case the file is sensitive in nature.

You can upload any kind of file (up to 512MB per file) and access it from the web, through WebDAV, the ownCloud iPhone App, and the Mac OS X/Windows Desktop App.

It is a music player and video streamer (with supported addon enabled).

Bottom Line

You can have full control of your files, share them with your friends or collaborate with your clients if you are a small/medium business owner in a very simple tool.

The benefit of using it on an OpenVZ.ca based VPS, is that you can scale resources as you grow. Start out with the Small VPS package and go beyond the storage of ExtraLarge as you need it.

We will also be increasing resources on the Small and Medium plans as we have added more bandwidth capacity.

Get any shared hosting account with cPanel for 2 years, and pay the 1 year rate.

This promotion is perpetual (meaning the pricing will not change as long as you keep the plan).

New customers and existing customers can take advantage of this offer.

Fine Print

You cannot update an existing plan to the new rate. This promotion is for new accounts only. (Existing & New customers welcome).

Visit our Home Page between November 21 – November 27 to take advantage of this offer.

It eliminates a lot of confusion between Guaranteed/Burstable memory models in the old system, and allows your VPS to behave in a more predictable way (more like a dedicated server).

Most of our customers have been migrated to the newer CentOS 6 nodes and vSWAP has already been implemented. If you have been migrated, the guaranteed RAM is what you will now see in your SolusVM interface and the burstable RAM will now show as SWAP within your VPS.

You can view how much SWAP you have allocated by typing the command:

# free -m

This is the official description for vSWAP provided by the OpenVZ Wiki:

New RHEL6-based OpenVZ kernel has a new memory management model, which supersedes User beancounters. It is called VSwap.

Now you can set two primary parameters: physpages and swappages, while all the other beancounters become secondary and optional.

• physpages

This parameter limits the physical memory (RAM) available to processes inside a container.

The barrier is ignored and should be set to 0, and the limit sets the limit.

Currently (as of >= 042stab042) the user memory, the kernel memory and the page cache are accounted into physpages.

• swappages

This parameter limits the amount of swap space which can be used for processes inside a container.

The barrier is ignored and should be set to 0, and the limit sets the limit.

The sum of physpages.limit and swappages.limit limits the maximum amount of allocated memory which can be used by a container. When physpages limit is reached, memory pages belonging to the container are pushed out to so called virtual swap (vswap). The difference between normal swap and vswap is that with vswap no actual disk I/O usually occurs. Instead, a container is artificially slowed down, to emulate the effect of the real swapping. Actual swap out occurs only if there is a global memory shortage on the system.

As always, if you have any questions regarding this post, please contact us or post a comment below.

To fix this issue without asking for assistance by an administrator, type the following commands as root:

# apt-get install python-software-properties
# add-apt-repository ppa:jammy/upstart.fix-880049
# apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
# reboot

Once your VPS has been rebooted the bug will go away.

This only affects Ubuntu version 11.10.

If you have any additional problems, or if this doesn’t fix the problem, please open a support ticket.

The solution

Type the following command as root:

ip route add ::/0 dev venet0

While the above solution will work, it is not practical as most admins don’t want to manually type this each time they restart network services or reboot their machines.

To ensure the default route is present on boot. Add the following 2 lines of code to the /etc/sysconfig/network file.

NETWORKING_IPV6=”yes”
IPV6_DEFAULTDEV=”venet0″

This will ensure that your OS will add the default route for IPv6 on boot.

• DNS10 – Ability to host 10 domains and up to 100 records. ($2.50 per month with any VPS account)
• DNS20 – Ability to host 20 domains and up to 250 records. ($5.00 per month with any VPS account)

This service can be added on to all current VPS accounts by creating an upgrade order from the ePortal. The web interface to control all DNS records is seamlessly integrated with the SolusVM web console.

If you have any questions regarding this service, please email sales@media-hosts.com.

Sincerely,
Media-Hosts Inc.

Starting today, it will be no longer necessary to open a support ticket to modify reverse DNS entries.

We hope this will add an extra layer of simplicity to the service.

Sincerely,

Media-Hosts Inc.

The Softaculous Script auto-installer for suite for cPanel is now available on all web hosting plans.

As of the date of this post, Softaculous has over 259 scripts available for installation including the following very popular blogging and cms scripts:

WordPress, b2evolution, StatusNet, Drupal, Mambo, phpBB, SMF, AEF, Coppermine, Gallery, Jcow, OpenClassifieds, openX, WebCalendar, Shadows Rising, phpList, SquirrelMail, LimeSurvey, Piwik, SugarCRM, PHProjekt, osCommerce, Magento, phpBook, HESK, osTicket, kPlaylist, VidiScript, Gregarius, CodeIgniter, Moodle, Elgg.

What is Softaculous?

Softaculous is an auto installer for cPanel.  Unlike other auto installers Softaculous is much faster, well designed and it installs all scripts in just ONE STEP. 

If you have any questions, please open up a sales ticket and one of our reps will get back to you with more information.