12-21-2019, 02:26 PM
Though I should complete the review of the upgrade of VPS 9 Phoenix. I've decided to stay with the VPS.
When I was working with it today, discovered that CentOS 7.0 is not recommended for protected IPs. Since my IP was a new IP I thought there could be a possibility for it being in that category, so went for CentOS 6.5 instead. This time round I had no issues getting into the VPS. But once again was unable to successfully change the port number. I then abandoned that effort, and went straight into creating a panel, a database and starting WordPress from the command line. After being down for more than a month, my Blog is up and running again. I'm going to wait first to see how it behaves, and will then add the other sites one by one.
I think the most disappointing for me for the upgrade of VPS 9 Phoenix was the change of the IP that Virmach maintains is a Phoenix IP, but it’s actually a German IP that has been networked to behave as a Phoenix IP, result of which is my ISP in South Africa has to do a double take to work with the IP from before. Latency Ping has shot up from 36 previously to a whopping 147. Speed is also significantly less.
This is what the speed looked like from South Africa to Phoenix with the old Phoenix IP:
![[Image: 7532833913.png]](https://www.speedtest.net/result/7532833913.png)
And this is what the new IP looks like now from South Africa:
![[Image: 8875187060.png]](https://www.speedtest.net/result/8875187060.png)
But for the rest while uploading plugins and importing the Website apart from slower speed, it was behaving seamlessly. Guess VPS 9 Phoenix is still a keeper for me. So far any way. But for any one with more sophisticated needs this may not be an ideal VPS to have.
When I was working with it today, discovered that CentOS 7.0 is not recommended for protected IPs. Since my IP was a new IP I thought there could be a possibility for it being in that category, so went for CentOS 6.5 instead. This time round I had no issues getting into the VPS. But once again was unable to successfully change the port number. I then abandoned that effort, and went straight into creating a panel, a database and starting WordPress from the command line. After being down for more than a month, my Blog is up and running again. I'm going to wait first to see how it behaves, and will then add the other sites one by one.
I think the most disappointing for me for the upgrade of VPS 9 Phoenix was the change of the IP that Virmach maintains is a Phoenix IP, but it’s actually a German IP that has been networked to behave as a Phoenix IP, result of which is my ISP in South Africa has to do a double take to work with the IP from before. Latency Ping has shot up from 36 previously to a whopping 147. Speed is also significantly less.
This is what the speed looked like from South Africa to Phoenix with the old Phoenix IP:
And this is what the new IP looks like now from South Africa:
But for the rest while uploading plugins and importing the Website apart from slower speed, it was behaving seamlessly. Guess VPS 9 Phoenix is still a keeper for me. So far any way. But for any one with more sophisticated needs this may not be an ideal VPS to have.