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Category: VPS
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Removing WALinuxAgent from your Azure instance
Azure’s supplied Linux images come preinstalled with the Azure Linux Agent, a process that manages virtual machine interaction with the Azure Fabric Controller, such as providing the oh-so-useful availability status and the VM name to Azure. It also performs self-updates, by the way.
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Installing Caddy as a service in your cloud instance
Caddy should be everyone’s server of choice. Especially lazy people, and that’s everyone. This blog is served by Caddy. It is a modern web server written in Go. It does automatic HTTPS configuration. TF is automatic you ask? Take this blog for example – if it were to run in Nginx, the config file would look like this:
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Google starts charging for public IPv4 addresses in GCP
If you have taken a look in your January 2020 invoice from your GCP subscription, you would notice a new line that resembles this:
Compute Engine External IP Charge on a Standard VM: xxx.xxx Hours [Currency conversion: USD to SGD using rate 1.352]
(more…)Edit: Google is currently discounting the public IP charges 100% for the first 3 months until 1 April 2020.
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1-year free cloud instance with 3TB transfer
Came across a free 12 months VPS offer. You get a full year’s worth of cloud instance with 1 vCPU, 1GB RAM, 40GB SSD as well as 3TB data transfer. That is 750 hours per month of free usage, which you can either leave it on 24/7, or spin up 750 instances for 1 hour. Either way, it is within the free tier.
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AWS Lightsail US$3.5/mo instance reviewed
This is a personal, independent review of the service which I have paid for, and is in no way affiliated with AWS.
As mentioned in the inauguration article, I was in the market for a VPS with excellent internet connectivities to improve my streaming experience for content hosted in certain countries. My household streaming consumption is about 1.6TB per month, of which about a quarter, or 400GB, could use some accelerations.
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Comparing cloud instance performance across different providers
If you have been in the market of shopping for a cloud instance, you will notice the offerings are deceptively similar: 1 vCPU + 1GB memory with a 20GB disk and 1TB bandwidth, for the same price. Are they really similar though?
Far from it.
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Quick config and optimization of your cloud instance
So you’ve got your first Linux VM, hurray! Here is a quick prep guide to get it up to speed.
In this example (and throughout this blog), I’ll assume you’re using the Debian-based Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – which is ideal as it comes with newer software packages and is quite a bit easier to manage than CentOS.
Setting hostname and timezone
After SSH-ing into the terminal, the first two things you’d want to do is update the hostname and timezone settings of your VM. These can be done by the following commands:
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