My disk benchmark results for a few VPS providers, run with fio. Binary Lane performs well despite only advertising SSD storage, while I find the difference between Digital Ocean’s SSD and NVMe offerings disappointing, though contention on shared drives may explain some of that...
Frustrated with slow VM provisioning in Proxmox compared to BinaryLane, I used a $200 Digital Ocean credit from a podcast promotion to test how quickly a cloud VM can be spun up. A Debian droplet booted in about 42 seconds, but initial SSH access proved awkward, requiring me to dig through docs and the web console to set up a user since Debian blocks root login. Once I cleared that hurdle, the rest of the experience was fine...
I point a Porkbun-registered domain at a BinaryLane VPS by keeping Porkbun as the name server and updating the A record to the VPS’s IP address. Along the way, I include a short primer on DNS resolution and authoritative name servers, plus a mention of my longer-term plan to use the VPS as a Wireguard tunnel to a home cluster. The end result is the domain serving a test page from Nginx running in a container on the VPS...
Frustrated by the lack of cheap Australian VPS options compared to US providers, I tried Binary Lane, a low-priced developer-focused service from Australian host Mammoth. An Ubuntu server in Sydney was live within a minute of signing up, with Docker and a website running soon after. I also touch on the web panel, switching to SSH, and my plans to use the server for learning domains, SSL, and testing...
