Reselling remote server

[TheNuzziNuzz]

I am looking at renting a remote VPS for hosting game and web servers for customers. However I'm not sure how port forwarding would be managed, what to charge/what to pay, how to host multiple servers on one machine, ECT. 

 

I'm have found virmach.com to have the best servers for the price, but my experience is limited. Any thoughts/advice is verry appreciated. Thanks for helping me.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Im gonna use examples from aws, cause thats what i use.

 

For nat/port fordwarding, but default you don't have to as you have a public ipv4 address. You can network them together if you want.

 

For hosting multiple systems, you can use cotainers, but you can't use vms as your already on a vm. Id probably just buy more vms, one per client.

[TheNuzziNuzz]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Im gonna use examples from aws, cause thats what i use.

 

For nat/port fordwarding, but default you don't have to as you have a public ipv4 address. You can network them together if you want.

 

For hosting multiple systems, you can use cotainers, but you can't use vms as your already on a vm. Id probably just buy more vms, one per client.

The problem with buying multiple for each client is the clients want small servers worth 10/mo and less defeating the purpose of doing this.

 

What are containers?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, TheNuzziNuzz said:

The problem with buying multiple for each client is the clients want small servers worth 10/mo and less defeating the purpose of doing this.

 

What are containers?

if you don't know what containers are you really shouldn't be running a server for others.

 

 

[TheNuzziNuzz]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

if you don't know what containers are you really shouldn't be running a server for others.

 

 

I'm trying to learn that is the point. They are small servers that don't matter too much. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, TheNuzziNuzz said:

I'm trying to learn that is the point. They are small servers that don't matter too much. 

with the amount of ram your getting your not running more than run server at once.

 

Also try aws, they have a free tier, and are normally cheaper(and much bigger, i think they host 36% of the internet)

 

https://aws.amazon.com/?nc2=h_lg

 

Im assuming your running linux.

 

A container lets you run a seprate system(think vm) but it uses the same kernel, So there is much less overhead, but its less secure and you have to run the same os. https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/getting-started/

[TheNuzziNuzz]

16 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

with the amount of ram your getting your not running more than run server at once.

 

Also try aws, they have a free tier, and are normally cheaper(and much bigger, i think they host 36% of the internet)

 

https://aws.amazon.com/?nc2=h_lg

 

Im assuming your running linux.

 

A container lets you run a seprate system(think vm) but it uses the same kernel, So there is much less overhead, but its less secure and you have to run the same os. https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/getting-started/

Can you be more specific with ram? A typical Minecraft server only needs 2gb if even. Normally for 2gb it's 15/mo. If I host two for 10/mo VPS I make profit.

[Electronics Wizardy]

4 minutes ago, TheNuzziNuzz said:

Can you be more specific with ram? A typical Minecraft server only needs 2gb if even. Normally for 2gb it's 15/mo. If I host two for 10/mo VPS I make profit.

your normally paying for ram for the smal vps.

 

Normally its about the same price for 2 4gb vps as one 1 8gb one, so might aswell get 2 small ones. You then have more public ip's and bandwith and don't have to share bandwidth between them

[TheNuzziNuzz]

46 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

your normally paying for ram for the smal vps.

 

Normally its about the same price for 2 4gb vps as one 1 8gb one, so might aswell get 2 small ones. You then have more public ip's and bandwith and don't have to share bandwidth between them

 

Virmach has an option that is 12$ monthly remote desktop vps with 8gb of ram running ubuntu. However there is an additional 8$/mo charge for consistent CPU utilization but I don't imagine that would be necessary because the server will only be used some of the weekends and a few (3-6)hours each day. I magine this being my best choice.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, TheNuzziNuzz said:

Virmach has an option that is 12$ monthly remote desktop vps with 8gb of ram running ubuntu. However there is an additional 8$/mo charge for consistent CPU utilization but I don't imagine that would be necessary because the server will only be used some of the weekends and a few (3-6)hours each day. I magine this being my best choice.

If you only need it some of the time, you can only run it when you need its cheaper, but then you have to wait a minute for it to lauch. You can schedule this though.

 

No need for a remote desktop vps, just get the standard ones with the cli. gui won't help you here.

[TheNuzziNuzz]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

If you only need it some of the time, you can only run it when you need its cheaper, but then you have to wait a minute for it to lauch. You can schedule this though.

 

No need for a remote desktop vps, just get the standard ones with the cli. gui won't help you here.

 

The program i will be using to manage all of the game servers does not have a command line interface and is entirely graphical.

 

Also, its a monthly charge, so turning it off some of the time wouldn't change how much I am paying.

[Electronics Wizardy]

8 minutes ago, TheNuzziNuzz said:

Also, its a monthly charge, so turning it off some of the time wouldn't change how much I am paying.

Try something like aws, where you can pay hourly. AWS will also be cheaper.

 

8 minutes ago, TheNuzziNuzz said:

The program i will be using to manage all of the game servers does not have a command line interface and is entirely graphical.

Do it without a gui. That gui is just gonna use up ram, and most vps don't support gui's

[TheNuzziNuzz]

25 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Try something like aws, where you can pay hourly. AWS will also be cheaper.

 

Do it without a gui. That gui is just gonna use up ram, and most vps don't support gui's

 

Okay I found a command line alternative so Ill get one with no desktop. As for AWS, im going to have to do more research, I haven't found a plan that is what I am looking for yet.