Tag: vps

How to setup multiple WordPress sites in LXD containers

My article was recently published on Linode on how to setup many WordPress websites on a single server, and put each website inside LXD containers. By doing so, you can have greater density on your VPS and more value for money. Apart from that, it also has great educational value to go through all the …

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How to repartition a Hetzner VPS disk for ZFS on its own partition for LXD

In that post, we saw how to set up LXD on a Hetzner VPS (Hetzner Cloud). The particular VPS comes with a fixed size partition, and we had to put the LXD containers in a loopback device file, not on its own partition. The reason is that once the VPS is booted up, you cannot …

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How to set up LXD on Civo (new UK VPS provider)

Civo is a new UK company that offers virtual private servers (VPS). They are currently in beta, and I am testing here their management interface and the process of setting up LXD on Civo VPS. What differentiates greatly one VPS provider from another, is the Web management interface. And the CLI interface. Management interface Once …

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A closer look at the new Hetzner cloud servers, by running LXD

Hetzner just announced a new set of cloud servers at good competitive prices. Let’s try them out and run LXD! Cloud server information Here is the lineup of the new cloud servers, The cheapest is a single-core, 2GB RAM and 20GB disk Virtual Private Server, with practically unlimited traffic. This is good enough to run …

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How to use Ubuntu and LXD on Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud is like Amazon Web Services as they offer quite similar cloud services. They are part of the Alibaba Group, a huge Chinese conglomerate. For example, the retailer component of the Alibaba Group is now bigger than Walmart. Here, we try out the cloud services. The main reason to select Alibaba Cloud is to …

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How to install LXD/LXC containers on Ubuntu on cloudscale.ch

In previous posts, we saw how to configure LXD/LXC containers on a VPS on DigitalOcean and Scaleway. There are many more VPS companies. cloudscale.ch is one more company that provides Virtual Private Servers (VPS). They are based in Switzerland. In this post we are going to see how to create a VPS on cloudscale.ch and configure to …

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