TierHive | 256mb Ram 3GB Disk = $3 p/year | Hourly VPS | KVM | BIG project updates - more ports+ipv6
AnthonySmith
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Go here and play with the sliders, build your own package: TierHive
Example Plan: PERFECT for Discord or IRC bots!
vCPU: 1
RAM: 256 MB
NVMe: 3 GB
Free: SQL Offloading
Free: Round Robin or Failover or Sticky Routing load balancer.
Free: SSL Termination.
Free: Email Relay Service.
Free: Scripted deployment Library, store your own or use public ones.
Link: https://tierhive.com/#calculator
Example plan $0.25 p/month equivalent ($0.000350 per hour)
vCPU: 1
RAM: 1.5 GB
NVMe: 15 GB
Free: SQL Offloading
Free: Round Robin or Failover or Sticky Routing load balancer.
Free: SSL Termination.
Free: Email Relay Service.
Free: Scripted deployment Library, store your own or use public ones.
Link: https://tierhive.com/#calculator
Not going to be using it for a while? take a backup, delete it, stop paying immediately, only a 1-hour minimum is required.
Pricing:
vCPU: 1vCPU for upto 2048MB then anything over gets 2vCPU
Ram: 128MB upto 4096MB - 128mb incrememnts
Disk (NVMe): 1GB upto 50GB - 1GB Increments
Disk (HDD): 1GB upto 4000GB - 1GB increments
Disk (Network): 1GB upto 100GB - 1GB Increments
Free HAProxy, Load balancing, Failover, SSL, SQL Offload, Email relay
Actual hourly billing with 1 hour minimum
Meshed NAT, each user gets a /24 from 10.0.0.0/8 you can use your /24 over all locations and all your VPS can talk to each other over the mesh no matter the location.
For the rest of February, the minimum top-up is $3 instead of $5, credit never expires, services auto stop when you run out, you have around 3 days to recover, after that they are deleted, we auto cancel debt, so you will never owe anything.
We are privacy-focused, we don't want your ID or personal details, the free trial credit does not require a credit card or validation, its enough to get you running for a few hours or a few days or weeks, depending on what you deploy.
Locations:
- Canada East
- Kansas, MO, USA
- London, UK
- Frankfurt, DE
You can self-migrate your own server in most instances. Big HDD storage is only available in London right now.
MAJOR UPDATE
We essentially replaced the NAT logic in the back end after many complaints about only getting 1 extra port, now all VPSs are provisioned with ONLY 1 port for SSH (you get the matching UDP port anyway) then you can self-allocate up to 3 more ports, and you can set which internal port it forwards too.
This also means those who never needed or want the extra port forwarding to their VPS can remove it, you can add and remove ports at will now. Currently, we have set it to 4 ports (1 for ssh + 3 extra). Depending on use over the next month or so, we may hike that up to 5 or 10, we will see.
We are currently working on finally rolling out the HAProxy stats for end users, few little bits of fine-tuning to do still on that.
We may have also come up with a way to add IPv6 in a way that won't hurt the final IPv6 plan for TierHive, so IPv6 may be coming in Alpha sooner rather than later. I have some research to do on NS Delegation for end users who might want to manage their own zone/PTR
We figured out how to get a bit more speed networking-wise for end users with more efficient limiting, rule sets and dynamic balancing, which has been well recieved, there were some complaints from the nodeseek people early on about this 
(Anyone that uses nodeseek please let people know, I will very much appreciate that)
We are still looking to add Singapore as the next location once the stars align. I thought it would have been ready by now, but we had to back out while we focused on other, more important things with the NAT system, we realised we boxed ourselves in with that so we wanted to fix it before going any further.
Most other changes have been admin or hypervisor side to make our lives easier.
One of which is our own abuse monitoring system that checks for torrent, tor, mining, spam, port scanning abuse in real time, which we are looking to release as a separate product, it currently supports email, or webhook alerts (slack, zulip etc)
As a side note, we have discovered a lot of people are using this service for Discord bots, as most of them will run just fine on a micro instance, which is around $0.10/month equivalent, if anyone runs any commercial projects that need resources on demand in small amounts like this and wants to do some sort of post provisioning billing system we can arrange that, i.e. you can run a certain amount in advance and then you only pay if you get paid, we would love to hear from you.
Additionally, if anyone just has any cool or interesting projects and wants them to be sponsored, if it fits with the spirit of the project, we may consider providing free resources within reason. we recently sponsored the kansas location for https://check-host.cc/ for example, what have you got?
Comments
What's the best way to take a backup and restore from that backup? Currently, I think I'd have to boot into a recovery system and manually copy the disk (image) to a remote system. Then when restoring, I'd have to install something, boot into a recovery system again, write the disk image from there and reboot.
Is there a better way? Maybe something like "bring your own disk image"?
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How much traffic is included?
do you mean on TierHive itself? we provide a backup and restore system directly in the interface:
on the VPS you want to backup, just click "Create backup" you can either create a one time backup:
or a scheduled one:
Then once you have a backup you can restore it
And pick the safe mode (keeps your old disk image fir 2 hours and allows you to revert any time) or just restore and I dont care mode.
If you mean literally to bring your own disk? I guess I would probably just put both sides in rescue mode and dd it over ssh, or create a network disk, attach it, copy the data from the source into the network disk, then in rescue mode dd it over, maybe a bit slow, not sure.
We do have BYOD plans, but its only a thoery right now, accounting for all the possible sources and partitions and modes etc, its not a huge amount of fun.
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Right now we are not putting a number on it, we globally balace speeds based on your tier, I think the highest is currently throttling to about 300 mbit globally, really speaking if you need high volumes of traffic, its the wrong service for you, but in simple terms we limit based on contention at the time based on your tier, its effectivley unlimited but if it is abused or use impacts others you get throttled.
How much do you want?
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also forgot to say, you can attach any of your VPS backups to any other VPS you have in tierhive as a network disk.
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At the moment I am experimenting with a baby 256MB RAM/5GB storage machine and do not need much traffic, this is more to know what the limit is. Thanks
Cool, hope it works out well for you.
In other news:
I am now hoping to roll out IPv6 to the first location this week. We will probably start in London as that's the most complex place to do it for various reasons right now, test it for a bit, then add the rest.
IPv6 will be opt-in, not standard. You will need to allocate yourself a /64 per location from the panel, then you can use that on VPS in that location, the specific mechanisms are being tinkered with now, unsure if we will have the ability to delegate to your own nameservers on day 1, depends how much extra work that is.
We will also try to have IPv6 be elastic from day 1 if possible, so if you migrate, IPv6 still works in the new location, it just won't route optimally, as the IPv6 will be routed via say London instead of the new location in Kansas. This gives you a chance to update things without losing IPv6 connectivity altogether after migrating.
We will see...
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