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Vultr Upgraded All Plans and Announced $2.5 Instance

Vultr just upgraded all plans and announced a $2.5 per month plan, which comes with 1 CPU core, 512MB of memory, 20GB of SSD storage and 500GB of data transfer. Will you agree with me that Vultr is fighting back Linode which upgraded their plans two weeks ago . How to upgrade for existing customers? Please navigate to settings–>change plan and select the right plan, please note that downgrade is not supported. Here is a screenshot of how to upgrade plan. Enjoy Vultr.

Get a 1G Linode Instance for $5/month

Linode upgrades its products every one or two years, now Linode introduced 1G instance, which costs $5 per month, with 1GB of Memory and 1 core CPU. At the same time, Linode also introduced High-Memory instances, start at 16GB of memory and scale up to 200GB. For more information about this upgrade, take a look at the following pages. https://www.linode.com/pricing https://blog.linode.com/2017/02/14/high-memory-instances-and-5-linodes/

Load Balancers now available on DigitalOcean

Load Balancers are a highly available, fully-managed service that work right out of the box and can be deployed as fast as a Droplet. Load Balancers distribute incoming traffic across your infrastructure to increase your application's availability. They are now available on DigitalOcean. For more information about Load Balancer, take a look at the info page and the tutorials. An Introduction to DigitalOcean Load Balancers How To Create Your First DigitalOcean Load Balancer How To Balance TCP Traffic with DigitalOcean Load Balancers  How To Configure SSL Termination on DigitalOcean Load Balancers

DigitalOcean is going to Launch Load Balancers

Like Lionde and other VPS providers, DigitalOcean is adding more functions to its VPS, they will launch Load Balancers in recent feature. For more infomation about Load Balancers, just take a look at the info page .

Traffic Monitor: vnStat

vnStat is a console-based network traffic monitor for Linux and BSD that keeps a log of network traffic for the selected interface(s). It uses the network interface statistics provided by the kernel as information source. This means that vnStat won't actually be sniffing any traffic and also ensures light use of system resources. Installation It's pretty easy to install vnStat, just run the following command in your console (for CentOS), and it is done. yum -y install vnstat Create vnStat database Before create vnStat database, make sure which network interface you want to monitor, take eth0 for example. vnstat -u -i eth0 It's done, and enjoy vnStat. Command Manual vnstat -h Show traffic statistics on a hourly basis for the last 24 hours. vnstat -d Show traffic statistics on a daily basis for the last 30 days. vnstat -m Show traffic statistics on a monthly basis for the last 12 months. vnstat -l Display current transfer rate for the selected inter...