Free i9-9900K Ubuntu Jammy Shell Accounts At Hetzner HEL1
Not_Oles
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Friendly greetings to all! 🌎🌍
What's New?
Ubuntu Jammy seems to have been installed on a MetalVPS Intel i9-9900K node at Hetzner Helsinki.
Want a free account? Maybe with sudo? 👍 Right now plenty of server resources are available because there is nobody using the HEL1 node except @Not_Oles.
Fair use, but, if you make a VM, your VM specs don't have to be tiny. 🐷
Node Specs
- Intel Core i9-9900K
- 2 x RAM 32768 MB DDR4
- 2 x SSD M.2 NVMe 1 TB RAID 0
- 100 GB /altroot partition
- NIC 1 Gbit Intel I219-LM
- Location: HEL1-DC4
1 x Primary IPv4, 1 x IPv6/64
Hardware rented from Hetzner for € 53.70 / month.
Node OS: Ubuntu Jammy for now! 🤩 NetBSD might or might not be coming soon! ❤️
VM OS: Whatever you install!
Who?
- MetalVPS is not a registered entity. Instead, MetalVPS is an indie project of @Not_Oles IRL Tom Miller a/k/a the clueless™ guy.
Why?
Why not? It's fun to play with and learn about servers, operating systems, and the internet.
@Not_Oles uses very little of his MetalVPS servers' capacity. It's better to offer the extra capacity to others than to waste it. 🤔
Sometimes, when @Not_Oles hasn't run installimage for awhile, he misses it. 😢
Maybe the request (please see below, How To Sign Up) to accompany applications with links to posts here on LES where you asked for tech help or helped someone else with a tech question might encourage our wonderful Low End Spirit!
Warnings!
Clueless™ administrator! 😀 @Not_Oles frequently messes up! 😱
@Not_Oles is especially clueless™ about Ubuntu since he is an Ubuntu noob. 🤗
Sometimes trusted MetalVPSians might or might not get sudo. 🙈🙉🙊
RAID 0 is faster, but, if one drive goes, everything is gone. 🔥
MetalVPS usually has no billing panel and no server control panel. It's all command line until you install a GUI or activate whatever pre-installed GUI you want. 🆕 Maybe you can install and use some kind of web GUI. Maybe you can make your VM with the Ubuntu command line! 🤗
MetalVPS has no onboarding and no knowledge base. ♒︎ If you want to make a VM, you need to know or be willing to research about how to do it.
Account delivery might take a while! 😴 Accounts might be difficult to get, and there might not be very many accounts, because @Not_Oles enjoys servers that are not crowded. 🍔 @Not_Oles will go especially slowly on this node! 🐢
Both individual accounts and the entire server are subject to cancellation at any time without advance notice! 💥
No warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable law. No service level agreement. Not for business use. Intended especially for computer learning and fun! 🤑
White Hat stuff only, please! No copyright violations, please. 👍
@Not_Oles tries to keep the system updated. Frequent maintenance reboots are guaranteed! 🌺
Please make your own redundant, offsite backups! It's easy to download or sync or clone your backup to a safe place. Please also make sure that you actually can restore from your backups! Please think of your MetalVPS account as ephemeral! It might blow up! We or you might reinstall the node! 🤦♂️
MetalVPS.com is an indie project of @Not_Oles IRL Tom Miller with help from the MetalVPSians and many other friends. MetalVPS.com is neither a project of lowendspirit.com nor a project of Hetzner. 👨💻
Other MetalVPSians might be able to see your account name, some of the processes you are running, and much other information. So, please do not put confidential information on the server. 🤔
How To Sign Up
Please post in this thread. Unless necessary, please avoid sending emails or PMs.
Please include in your request:
your name,
your location,
what you plan to do on the server,
links to two posts here on LES where you asked a tech question or where you helped someone else by answering or discussing a tech question,
your ed25519 ssh public key, and
a link to your website if you have one.
Support
- Please post in this thread. Unless necessary, please avoid sending emails or PMs.
What People Are Saying
- About MetalVPS
"Some good stuff! Thanks for offering this to the community "
"Test container is very strong."
"Another awesome project!. Appreciate everything you are doing for the community."
"fun stuff indeed, appreciating the comfortable computing experience!"
"Nice trial and results! Very interesting "
"Wow pretty nice ! Congrats excellent options thanks for being a part of the community"
"the terms seemed exceptionally fair"
"Kernel Linux 5.11 is now in much better shape for AMD "
"Yes, please. I’ll take that."
"it's really quite dedicated. not all dedicated are the same."
"MetalVPS-AX101 has a reasonable price"
"really need a testing ground badly now especially with dedicated core"
"I've been using this one from him. Highly recommend! His support is really amazing!"
"Grab it while the hotel still has vacant rooms."
- About Not_Oles
"Really, you're the best person I've known on the internet."
"It was a pleasure for me to collaborate with Tom, he really knows what he's doing "
"Thanks again to @Not_Oles for valiant testing."
"you've brought a smile on my face countless times "
"Good luck with your new project! 
Happy to have you around here!"
"I always love how you come up with new ideas Good luck, mate!
"May you continue to learn and inspire others."
"he is the sweetest guy in LES .."
"resplendent as the Sonoran Sun"
"every time I visit les and see that profile picture, it brightens up my day."
"As for the new administrator, I nominate @Not_Oles."
"I would love to see @Not_Oles as a moderator or a bigger role."
"I would also support @Not_Oles as admin "
Thanks
Thanks again and best wishes! 🇺🇸🗽🇲🇽🏜️🇩🇪👨💻
Comments
MetalVPS
Sweet !
LES • About • Donate • Rules • Support
very sweet
Does Jammy cause traffic jam?
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Per your CV.
Nice offer for people! How'd you manage to get a 9900k for € 53.70/mo, do they still sometimes go for that price in the auctions or was it a legacy deal?
Hi @zako12!
€ 53.70 / month is an auction price. Also, VAT is excluded.
For comparison, I got a similar i9-9900K, also at auction, for € 81.70 / month. The additional € 28.00 / month was for double memory (128 GB instead of 64 GB) plus a 16 TB HDD add-on.
Hetzner also offers their EX100, which is an i9-12800K with 128 GB RAM and 2 x 1.92 TB Gen 4 NVMe. The EX100 is € 108.80 / month in Finland and € 119.80 / month in Germany. Plus € 109.00 one time setup fee.
The default configuration i9-9900K auction server at € 53.70 / month is half the price of the € 108.80 / month i9-12800K Finland EX100. Plus the auction server has no setup fee. A pretty good Low End Deal!
Friendly greetings!
Tom
MetalVPS
I got a 128GB 9900k in FSN for €56.04/mo a couple of months ago, and at the time there were 64GB ones for about €1 less. I've not seen them cheaper than this though, but you might be lucky if you wait long enough.
Some good stuff! Thanks for offering this to the community
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
Thanks for your kind comment! Coming from someone like you, a top notch contributor, means a lot. You made my day!
MetalVPS
Awhile back I found Running QEMU/KVM Virtual Machines in Unprivileged LXD Containers (2017) by Dmitrii Shcherbakov.
Dmitrii's tutorial was done on Ubuntu. One of the reasons why this server, Jammy, was installed with Ubuntu, was that I might try stepping through Dmitrii's wonderfully fun Qemu-KVM inside LXD install. I figured that going through the tutorial was more likely to be successful with the same OS.
I wonder whether there might be significant, perhaps breaking changes between 2017 and now. Anybody know?
I have another little project I need to finish, but, in a day or two, maybe I can take the first step of Dmitrii's tutorial.
Friendly greetings!
MetalVPS
Hello!
I had a lot of fun trying out the Running QEMU/KVM Virtual Machines in Unprivileged LXD Containers (2017) tutorial.
I did not go at all carefully. Instead, I just dumped commands from the recipe to see what would happen out of the box. The result seems to be a running container (perhaps not VM) with working IPv6. I didn't get any container creation errors.
The output of
virt-host-validatedidn't look as good as the output shown in the tutorial.I was able to run some of yabs. I'm guessing that nat64.xyz gave me enough IPv4 to download the Geekbench test but no connection for the iperf v4 tests or the ping. Geekbench 5 scores on the node (shown above) were 1410 and 7969, so the container cost around 100 points on single core and going on 200 on multicore.
Hopefully I can go through the LXD install again and make adjustments. Also, I might like to install and try the LXDWARE dashboard.
Is anybody here interested in Ubuntu, LXD, LXC via LXD, KVM via LXD, or LXDWARE? Is anybody an Ubuntu and LXD genius who is willing to post a continuous stream of clues starting now or starting after I go through carefully? Thanks!
Best!
Tom
MetalVPS
Hello!
There is a line in the dshcherb config which says:
- apt install -yqq bridge-utils libvirt-bin qemu-kvmAccording to this Ask Ubuntu page, E: Package 'libvirt-bin' has no installation candidate,
I wonder what would happen if I change the config to delete "libvirt-bin" and add "libvirt-daemon-system" and "libvirt-clients". So the new config line becomes
- apt install -yqq bridge-utils libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clients qemu-kvm¡Saludos!
Tom
MetalVPS
Excellent!
So I might have to go figure out how those missing kernel configs are enabled. And why the modified config from the 2017 tutorial doesn't seem to work here. . . .
MetalVPS