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I was thinking of buying a VPS to use for botting since my mother doesn't like it when I leave my PC on all night.

I have no idea what to look for, though. I guess that having Ubuntu shouldn't be an issue since Simba can work on Ubuntu with WINE.

I'm looking for a pretty low-cost per month VPS so I could perhaps support it off of the money I make off of gold farming on it. The method I use yields me about 80k/h per-Simba (so 2 simbas=160k/h, etc.).

How much MB RAM should I be thinking of? Disk space and bandwith should be fine with whatever I choose.
Simba uses about 250MB per instance, right? I want to run 2 or max. 3 at a time.

Also, what is "Swap" for, exactly? I know it has something to do with when you use up all your RAM that you don't get errors and stuff, right?

From what I've seen so far, "Versio" is the best choice for me. It's located in the Netherlands.

They have quite a few options.
First of all, it's divided in "Starter" and "Expert" packages.
The difference is just in the bandwith (Expert has x2) and Starter has "OpenVZ" whereas Expert has "Xen". What's the difference between those?
Furthermore, both of them are divided into "Light", "Medium" and "Large" with…

• RAM:
• Light: 256MB, 512MB Swap
• Medium: 512MB, 1024MB Swap
• Large: 1024MB, 2048MB Swap
• HD Space: 30, 60, 150GB respectively
• All have the choice of CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu
• All are "SolusVM"
• All have 1 IP address
• Costs "Starter" packages: EUR 4.95, EUR 8.95, EUR 14.95 respectively
• Costs "Expert" packages: EUR 7.95, EUR 14.95, EUR 24.95 respectively

Are these good prices? The company is rated 97/100 by ISPGids.nl (dutch independent rating website for dedis, vpss, webhosting, etc.).

Thanks in advance! Hope I provided sufficient information, else just ask me!

P.S.:
Why are the Expert packages so much more expensive? Is the difference between Xen and OpenVZ that big?

This is a great question, I'm wondering the same thing. Also, would this VPS provide enough CPU?

I believe they're on quad-core xeon's. So yes, probably.

I also consider buying a VPS. As far as I have heard xen is used for botting. (Others might not allow you to run java applets).

Some quite popular VPS' among botters are photonvps.com and seerhost.com.

Also here are some tutorials I have bookmarked:
sythe.org/showthread.php?p=8127437
sythe.org/showthread.php?t=977316
rsbuddy.com/forum/%5Bcentos%5D-ultimate-vps-guide-%5Bsetup-gui-bots%5D-1053.html

http://www.lowendbox.com/

Great review site of cheap vps'z. They offer discounts with promo codes.

Lol I think any cheap VPS hoster would kick you off for using too much CPU. To get prices cheap they have to oversell their product enough.

http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/w2servers-24year-openvz-vps/

I just bought a year. Haven't touched it yet, will post with updates.
EDIT: Just a thought, the company was fairly quick at opening my account up.
EDIT2: Ok I've setup ubuntu (with some help off of IRC Dgby and noidea and wizzup :D!) here are some benchmarks and tests:

System Benchmarks Index Values               BASELINE       RESULT    INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables         116700.0    8637490.5    740.1
Double-Precision Whetstone                       55.0       3349.8    609.0
Execl Throughput                                 43.0       2627.4    611.0
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks          3960.0     344924.7    871.0
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks            1655.0      94557.0    571.3
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks          5800.0     684940.1   1180.9
Pipe Throughput                               12440.0     586340.4    471.3
Pipe-based Context Switching                   4000.0     184583.7    461.5
Process Creation                                126.0       8694.8    690.1
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent)                     42.4       3936.9    928.5
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                      6.0        510.9    851.5
System Call Overhead                          15000.0     449835.3    299.9
                                                                   ========
System Benchmarks Index Score                                         650.7

And:

16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 3.282 s, 81.8 MB/s (IO Speed)
root@thingman:~#
root@thingman:~# wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2011-03-26 22:18:07-- http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 9.85M/s in 10s

any updates on this? are you using it to bot? seems interesting..

Kinda got burried in schoolwork/projects, haven't botted a lot so I didn't look into VPSs more. Will give it more thought in the near future though!

I'm hosting one for Camaro ;). 5m/month xD.
I can host 1 more, I have 1 more box atm. Any distro you want :p. VNC + SSH.

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I'm hosting one for Camaro ;). 5m/month xD.
I can host 1 more, I have 1 more box atm. Any distro you want :p. VNC + SSH.

may take you up on that in a little over a month (after exams are over)

Alright, just PM me :p.

botting with 3 at a time, your barely going to break even

I have two V(irtual) P(rivate) S(erver)s one which has a guaranteed ram of 512MB (1GB Burst) and the other is 1GB guaranteed RAM (2GB Burst).

The only botting you will most likely do on a linux distro is with a java bot. I couldn't even get RSBuddy or RSBot(before this hacking scene) to run on that, so I just use all my RAM to host a minecraft server. This is 6$ a month, which is paid each month (like RS) because of a 25% discount.

My other one is usually hosting a minecraft server, but often times I will shut that off to bot using RSBuddy. This one is 10.50 a month after the 25% discount.

I love using VPS(s).