Comments on On the brink: Gentoo on a 1&1 vServer

I've used this guide for two Hosting Europe server...

2009-10-09T22:07:09.806+02:00

I've used this guide for two Hosting Europe servers. With VPS 3.0 SuSE, everything worked fine. With VPS 4.0 Ubuntu, you also had to copy over the /etc/network directory and its content from the rescue/repair system to Gentoo.

BTW: Don't get confused when the repair systems routing table and network config looks bit confusing (like 127.0.0.1 on loopback and as a second IP for venet0). Just do it as described above.

And don't forget to edit your fstab ;)

2009-03-07T09:53:58.855+01:00

And don't forget to edit your fstab ;)

You should do:mount -o bind /dev/pts/ dev/pts/If y...

2009-03-05T23:18:00.588+01:00

You should do:
mount -o bind /dev/pts/ dev/pts/
If you get PTS errors

See http://linux-vserver.org/VServer_Hosting and s...

2008-07-30T15:43:33.235+02:00

See http://linux-vserver.org/VServer_Hosting and search for 'gentoo', there are some hosting provider which offer gentoo vservers out of the box.

@alex: I am using a buildhost structure with the v...

2008-05-28T08:45:15.252+02:00

@alex: I am using a buildhost structure with the vServers. Otherwise I'd get the same memory problems on the smaller hosts.

That way I avoid problems with swap and I believe you don't get swap with the vServers from 1&1. But since I rely on my buildhost I was never really pressured into asking them. Maybe it is possible to activate swap somehow.

@anonmyous: The krombie.net link is definitely interesting. I always enjoy it to see Gentoo being used in a commercial environment.

But you must admit that they are extremely expensive. At these rates it quickly becomes worthwhile to convert a cheap vServer to Gentoo yourself.

OR you could just move to a provider that offers G...

2008-05-28T00:01:53.961+02:00

OR you could just move to a provider that offers Gentoo Virtual Private Servers.

also thanks from me...i was always looking for som...

2008-05-26T17:47:35.608+02:00

also thanks from me...

i was always looking for something like that!!!

unfortunatelly, for me it doesn't seem to work, because i always get an error telling me i cannot allocate enough memory, which is true. i just wonder why it doesn't seem to use the swap. in your tutorial i haven't found anything concerning swap. do i miss something?

cheers!

alex

Thanks for this nice howto, worked w/o problems fo...

2008-05-10T11:32:59.396+02:00

Thanks for this nice howto, worked w/o problems for me.

While digging through the 1&1 customer mirror I found a gentoo distfile and gentoo-portage rsync mirror! :)

http://update.onlinehome-server.info/distribution/gentoo/gentoo

rsync://update.onlinehome-server.info/gentoo-portage

The hosts seem only to be reachable from 1&1 ranges ..