1) Can anyone give some information on Contabo mentioned in the original guide? Their prices look suspiciously good for what they're offering. Most reviews are older, but from what I can tell, they oversell and aren't reliable? Was hoping someone would have a more recent view on this.
1a) How reliable are they?
2) What other vps providers are other people using?
3) How intensive is the full node? How much cpu can I limit it before it's no longer feasible? I'm thinking of getting a vps with more resources so I can run my other apps/servers alongside the full node, but obviously the apps/servers should have a higher priority over the full node (no offense lol).

Hi greensheep,
i run my VPS M (SSD boosted) with a full IOTA-node. With Contabo as provider i am very pleased. Never had a problem with reliability.
But if u run ur IOTA-node (provider is irrelevant) limit the CPU-usage like described here:
   https://forum.helloiota.com/post/6261
the service sometimes uses much CPU (up to 100 %), so espacially if u have other services on the server and don't want ur server be blocked
i recommend to add the two attributes to limit CPUtime for IOTA-service.
Cheers, MiXiM

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greensheep - 24 Dec 2017

1) Can anyone give some information on Contabo mentioned in the original guide? Their prices look suspiciously good for what they're offering. Most reviews are older, but from what I can tell, they oversell and aren't reliable? Was hoping someone would have a more recent view on this.
1a) How reliable are they?
2) What other vps providers are other people using?
3) How intensive is the full node? How much cpu can I limit it before it's no longer feasible? I'm thinking of getting a vps with more resources so I can run my other apps/servers alongside the full node, but obviously the apps/servers should have a higher priority over the full node (no offense lol).

For me it works nice.
The plan used in the tutorial is fine to run a FN and help the network but if you wanna use it a lot and you are planning to connect many wallets to it you should go with a higher resources plan.
Before this VPS I tryied a Digital Ocean instance for the same price. That was really bad. So, for about 10 USD Contabo is the best I had so far.
Please feel free to recommend other better solutions!

What commands should I use to update to the newest version of IRI?

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xgarb - 27 Dec 2017

What commands should I use to update to the newest version of IRI?

Just download the already compiled version and place it in the same folder. Then change the java -jar command to match the new IRI name.
Go to your target directory and do this:

wget https://github.com/iotaledger/iri/releases/download/v1.4.1.4/iri-1.4.1.4.jar

java -jar iri-1.4.1.4.jar -c iri.ini

Regardless of which 'version' of IRI you run - buildt or downloaded -  NEVER run this as the 'root' -user.

Getting this error.
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.net.BindException: Cannot assign requested address
    at io.undertow.Undertow.start(Undertow.java:203) ~[iri-1.4.1.4.jar:na]
    at com.iota.iri.service.API.init(API.java:152) ~[iri-1.4.1.4.jar:na]
    at com.iota.iri.IRI.main(IRI.java:74) ~[iri-1.4.1.4.jar:na]
Caused by: java.net.BindException: Cannot assign requested address
    at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind0(Native Method) ~[na:1.8.0_151]
    at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Net.java:433) ~[na:1.8.0_151]
    at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Net.java:425) ~[na:1.8.0_151]
    at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketChannelImpl.bind(ServerSocketChannelImpl.java:223) ~[na:1.8.0_151]
    at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketAdaptor.bind(ServerSocketAdaptor.java:74) ~[na:1.8.0_151]
    at org.xnio.nio.NioXnioWorker.createTcpConnectionServer(NioXnioWorker.java:190) ~[iri-1.4.1.4.jar:na]
    at org.xnio.XnioWorker.createStreamConnectionServer(XnioWorker.java:243) ~[iri-1.4.1.4.jar:na]
    at io.undertow.Undertow.start(Undertow.java:163) ~[iri-1.4.1.4.jar:na]
    ... 2 common frames omitted

Thanks for any help

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NickM - 8 Jan 2018

Getting this error.
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.net.BindException: Cannot assign requested address
    at io.undertow.Undertow.start(Undertow.java:203) ~[iri-1.4.1.4.jar:na]
    at com.iota.iri.service.API.init(API.java:152) ~[iri-1.4.1.4.jar:na]
    at com.iota.iri.IRI.main(IRI.java:74) ~[iri-1.4.1.4.jar:na]
Caused by: java.net.BindException: Cannot assign requested address
    at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind0(Native Method) ~[na:1.8.0_151]
    at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Net.java:433) ~[na:1.8.0_151]
    at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Net.java:425) ~[na:1.8.0_151]
    at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketChannelImpl.bind(ServerSocketChannelImpl.java:223) ~[na:1.8.0_151]
    at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketAdaptor.bind(ServerSocketAdaptor.java:74) ~[na:1.8.0_151]
    at org.xnio.nio.NioXnioWorker.createTcpConnectionServer(NioXnioWorker.java:190) ~[iri-1.4.1.4.jar:na]
    at org.xnio.XnioWorker.createStreamConnectionServer(XnioWorker.java:243) ~[iri-1.4.1.4.jar:na]
    at io.undertow.Undertow.start(Undertow.java:163) ~[iri-1.4.1.4.jar:na]
    ... 2 common frames omitted

Thanks for any help

Hi Nick,
that means that the/one port(s) u configure in ur .ini-file for the IOTA-service are currently used by another
service or program. Another cause could be, that u don't have the permission to open another socket to
the outside world. Difficult to determine only by stack trace ...
But i assume that some other program is using one port u configured in ur .ini-file.
U may check the ports by using this command:

foo@server:~#sudo lsof -i -P -n

If u grep only the interesting port 14600 (or 15600) the output should look like this:

foo@server:~# sudo lsof -i -P -n | grep 14600
java  18037  iota 39u IPv6  1980698  0t0 UDP *:14600

Hope that helps, cheers, MiXiM

Hi,

I followed your instructions and have a IRI .1.7 installation running on a Debian 9 VPS but every time I start IRI it can't resolve the URI that I give it of
up and running neighbor nodes. It always comes back with the error ' "https://xyzblabla" is not a valid uri schema or resolvable address. '

I can ping the addresses alright. But somehow the IRI process can't seem to see it. I ran it already with the dns-resolution-false flag, but no change.

I somehow think it has something to do with having it run on the VPS but as you have done the same above, it seems there shouldn't be a problem. Anyone ran into the same issue ?

Cheers,

Hi guys
I am trying to get edit permission so I can update/improve the post.
Will let you know once I can do that.
Thanks for all the valuable inputs!

Thanks! Everyone can setup a Full
Node just be following those steps. I hope it helps!