Hello
Has someone been able to run Virtual Machines in a VPS in the past or actually with a decent and stable performance in the VM?
A VPS like for example a Contabo VPS service that I see their service is reliable with a good price, starting in $7/month including 4 vCPU cores, 8 GB RAM and 50 GB NMVe SSD:
https://contabo.com/en/vps/
Well, I have a Windows 10 workspace in a Virtual Machine running in VMware Workstation Pro 15, and I need to migrate that workspace to a VPS (reasons below), but as a VPS is already in itself a virtualized environment, I would like to know about the experience of others users in this kind of situations where the case requires to use a VPS and running a virtual machine on it. So please let’s base the answers about the VPS is a needed and fixed part of the situation.
I would like to ask about this situation here before to migrate, to know about VM system stability when running in a VPS, about possible system crushes, lags, or for example high hardware/OS performance degradation, etc.
In my case the Windows 10 workspace takes in total around 2.1-2.5GB of RAM and 11%-20% from a 2-cores vCPU taken from a quad-core i7-6thGen-@2.6GHz (in a local laptop), so it is not a heavy process and as the VPS would have 4 vCPU cores, 8 GB RAM and 50 GB NMVe SSD, I’ve thought these VPS specs could bear a VMware Workstation Player 16 installation maybe choosing a Linux OS for the VPS like Ubuntu 20.04 (Windows for the VPS OS has around double monthly price), and with this then running the Virtualized Windows 10 workspace in that VPS.
About why to use a VPS, this is just because the next 2 reasons:
- #1. The software I need to run needs to be 24/7 running and online, without power cuts and with a stable relatively low-latency internet connection. And in the place where is the local machine, these 2 things are not guaranteed (power cuts, no stable connection…), so this is the main reason because a VPS is required.
- #2. To be able to access to the Windows 10 workspace from any device via Remote Desktop, like from any PC or mac device, or also on the go from a tablet or smartphone when needed mainly for monitoring purposes. And yes, I know I can do this by having the Windows 10 workspace in a local machine but the problem is the local machine doesn’t meet with the point #1 right above that is the most important and crucial part about why a VPS.
Important details:
- I know this problem could be solved just using a Dedicated Server instead of a VPS, but my current monthly budget can only cover $7-$15, and here is where a VPS could be a solution, and this range of cost is exactly the cost of a Contabo VPS as you can see by opening the link above.
- I know I can write to the support of the VPS company to simply ask them if I can run nested virtualization. I did it before and their answer is not conclusive enough. They say a VPS has not the “hardware features” to run VMs in an efficient way and that they don’t recommend running virtual machines in a VPS because the performance will be lower. But as they don’t specify more specific details I would like users that have had this kind of scenarios could share their experience and feedback about this topic, because yes, I understand the performance will be lower, of course I understand this point, perfect, however, as my hardware requirements are not high as described above, and the VPS seems to have good hardware specs then what I need is to know if I could work with stability even not being in the ideal and more efficient scenario.
I really hope someone here could have a similar situation and can share the experience.
Thank you very much in advance
