If you are bored and wanna play around with a LXC container: https://microlxc.net/
Currently AU, JP, LA and CH are available, you can pick between 128 and 256MB packages.

As usual some requirements apply:

• Your account needs to be 6 months old
• You need to have at least 50 Posts
• You need to have at least 50 Likes

If you meet these, you can go on the website, and to verify that you are you, you need to post the token that will be given to you in this thread. The Bot will do the rest.

If stuff goes well, it will be publicly soon.
Please report bugs and suggestions.

PS: IPv6 is DHCP based in AU & CH but JP & LA needs Static config, which is automatically configured on Debian & Devuan but not on CentOS/Ubuntu needs to be done by hand yet. You can find your IPv6 in the Panel just substract -1 for the Gateway.

Friendly greetings to all! 🌎🌍

What You Get From MetalVPS!

• New MetalVPS Neighbors receive a traditional command line shell account. Experienced Neighbors with additional privileges can create their own chroots, LXC containers, KVM VPSes, and much more, all directly from their command line shell accounts! 🎁

• MetalVPS has a Hetzner EX101 Node running an Intel® Core™ i9-13900 processor at Hetzner's Falkenstein Datacenter in Germany. 🇩🇪

• MetalVPS sometimes has more than one Node.

• @Not_Oles is looking for another Node located in the US, on the West Coast, with great connections to Asia.

• All Node resources are available for fair use. 🐷

More About MetalVPS!

• MetalVPS is an indie project of @Not_Oles a/k/a Tom Miller a/k/a the clueless™ guy. 🥰

• @Not_Oles pays Hetzner € 89.00 per month, approximately US$ 96.19, for the i9-13900 Node. 💰

• MetalVPS is not a project of Hetzner, Low End Spirit, Low End Talk, Low End Box, NodeSeek, or FreeVPS.org. 👨‍💻​

Why MetalVPS?

• MetalVPS is @Not_Oles' way of expressing appreciation to the wonderful Low End community for all the fun @Not_Oles enjoys here. Yes, it indeed is very fun to play with and learn about servers, operating systems, and the internet.

• It seems better to offer extra bare metal server capacity to others than to waste it. @Not_Oles' own server requirements are so minimal that he easily could use just a free cloud account. But, that wouldn't be metal, would it?

• It seems better to keep everything as open and as transparent as possible. Hence, MetalVPS enjoys its commitments to 100% open source, free or libre software and to public discussion.

"For a little while longer I can enjoy renting my own fast, bare metal servers, even though I am using only 1% or 2% of their capacity. It's great with me if a few nice folks come aboard alongside." 💖
    -- @Not_Oles

i9-13900 Node Specifications

• Processor: Intel® Core™ i9-13900 Processor

• Memory: 64 GB DDR5 ECC RAM M324R4GA3BB0-CQK(DDR5 ECC) | DRAM | Samsung Semiconductor Global

• Disks: 2 x 1.92 TB NVMe SSD Datacenter Edition (RAID 0) SAMSUNG MZQL21T9HCJR-00A07 PCIe Gen 4

• Network: 1 x IPv4, 1 x IPv6 /64

• Bandwidth: 1 Gbps unmetered, fair use

Yabs

• Yabs for the i9-13900 Node is available here.

• Enjoy the GreekBench 6 3049 Single Core and 17551 Multi Core performance!

More About The i9-13900 Node Hardware

• Processor Architecture: Raptor Lake

• Motherboard: ASRock Rack W680D4U-1L

Terms of Service

• Thank you for running only 100% open source free or libre software at MetalVPS!
• MetalVPS is not intended to be a stable platform for long running applications.
• No warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
• No service level agreement.
• Not for business use.
• No transfer of MetalVPS account or sub-accounts.
• New Neighbors will not automatically be added to the kvm group or to /etc/sub[ug]id.
• Fair use.
• No spam, porn, hate, prejudice, malware, copyright violations, public proxies, traffic exchange, etc.
• Accounts are subject to cancellation at any time, for any reason, for no reason at all, and without any advance notice.
• Terms of Service are subject to change at any time.
• @Not_Oles' personal opinion determines Terms of Service term definitions.
• All Hetzner Terms of Service also apply, including, prohibition of:
  • Operating applications that are used to mine crypto currencies
  • The scanning of foreign networks or foreign IP addresses
  • Manually changing the hardware address (MAC)
  • The use of fake source IPs
  • Additional Hetzner Terms and Conditions

Warnings!

• Clueless™ administrator with "limited technical skills. . . ." 😀 @Not_Oles frequently messes up! 😱

• @Not_Oles is especially clueless™ about Debian. 🤗

• Hey! The i9-13900 Node usually runs Debian sid unstable! 🤩 And, it's RAID 0! 😭

• The i9-13900 Node's integrated graphics processor is not presently enabled. 😵

• Sometimes trusted MetalVPSians might or might not get sudo. 🙈🙉🙊

• MetalVPS has no billing panel and no server control panel. It's all command line until you install the GUI that you want. 🆕

• MetalVPS has no onboarding and no knowledge base. ♒︎

• Account delivery might take awhile! 😴

• Intended especially for computer learning and fun! 🤑

• White Hat stuff only, 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! Your Node might blow up! 💥 At any random second @Not_Oles or maybe you might reinstall the Node! 🤦‍♂️

• Other MetalVPSians can 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. 🤔

• MetalVPS Neighbors are expected both to monitor and to contribute actively to this thread or to the companion Nodeseek thread. 🍔

How To Sign Up

• Please post in this thread or in the companion thread at Nodeseek.

• Please indicate your desire to join MetalVPS and your use case for the server. Please include your ed25519 ssh public key in your request. Please add any additional information you wish about yourself and about your education and experience. If you wish to provide ID verification (optional) and references (optional), these can be emailed to Not_Oles@metalvps.com.

• Except for optional ID verification and references, Private Messages ("PMs") and emails concerning Sign Up are discouraged. Please post in the public thread.

• MetalVPS will consider your

1. LES/Nodeseek account longevity and contributions,
2. your use case for the server,
3. your website,
4. your additional online activity,
5. code contributions to free and libre software projects,
6. ID verification, and
7. references.

Support

• Please post in this thread or in the companion thread at Nodeseek. For support requests, both Private Messages ("PMs") and emails are discouraged.

Email Privacy

• MetalVPS uses Migadu for email. Thus, emails will at least pass through and probably will be stored at Migadu. Emails can be encrypted for additional privacy. MetalVPS stores, in plain text on @Not_Oles' Chromebook, a local working copy of some emails and other server Neighbor data, such as passwords and server logs. @Not_Oles also keeps a local, plain text backup on a removable hard disk.

Additional Contact Channels

• Additional communication channels are available via Signal App and Jitsi.

Financial Contributions To LES and Nodeseek

• Please send financial contributions to LES and to Nodeseek. Please tell LES and Nodeseek that you contributed partly because MetalVPS is here.

What People Are Saying

• About MetalVPS

"I really enjoyed MetalVPS . . . I hope more people can learn together using MetalVPS."

"非常感谢Not_Oles分享免费的MetalVPS为大家使用！" "Big thanks to Not_Oles for sharing his MetalVPS for people to use!"

". . . [V]ery cool that MetalVPS is still a thing Thanks for providing this to the community, tinkering with servers is fun and a learning experience!"

"The permanent free shell account of MetalVPS is very fun!" ("MetalVPS的永久免费shell账号挺好玩的")

"This is really really cool."

"I enjoyed the section of the OP dedicated to complementary comments, including helpful links so they can be verified."

"MetalVPS used to be a high end provider, but it's becoming a sorority now."

"fun stuff indeed, appreciating the comfortable computing experience!"

"Liking my darkstar"

"Nice trial and results! Very interesting "

Metalvps recommended on OGF 🙈

"It just crossed my mind that I've been using your server for over half a year! It's been an amazing experience! . . . Your services deserve much more attention. "

"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"

"the fastest VPS I ever used"

"I've been using this one from him. Highly recommend! His support is really amazing!"

"10/10 metalvps recommended"

"very powerful"

"premium stuff"

"Grab it while the hotel still has vacant rooms."

". . . very passionate and enthusiastic about everything. Not all businesses are made this way and it's very easy to see when you interact with them. You are giving the right impression with this industry and it's wonderful to see."

"I think MetalVPS is designed in between a dedicated and a regular VPS. Some use case cannot fill the capacity of a dedicated but need more CPU than a regular VPS, and it makes sense to use MetalVPS in such situation."

• About Not_Oles

"Tom, you're the best "

"I found it interesting that Tom still treats his free vps members like humans (it's really admirable). . . ."

"@Not_Oles is really a funfull and helpful grandpa!!"

"especially thanks @Not_Oles , He pointed out my problems and told me the correct way to share. He is a good guy."

"I'm not in need for any free vps at the moment, but thanks for what you're doing. If I had this chance few years ago, I think my life would be different."

"I did want to thank @Not_Oles for always being so friendly. Makes me smile seeing how nice you are to everyone here."

"You are a great person."

"Possibly the most polite and enthusiastic personality in the entire LE* world with a genuine interest that runs so deep he even set up a business exclusively catering for LES. as a regular content writer for LES his articles frequently top the charts in terms of most viewed (according to google)"

"Really, you're the best person I've known on the internet."

"we've found that good, in-depth technical articles tend to drive user interaction and new sign-ups on the forum. @Not_Oles's Proxmox articles are evidence of this."

"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 a great guy!"

"he is the sweetest guy in LES .."

"Everybody loves @Not_Oles! "

"resplendent as the Sonoran Sun"

"god bless not_oles ^^"

"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!

Tom gets a lot of help from the friendly MetalVPSians and from many other friends.

Thanks again and best wishes! 🇺🇸🗽🇲🇽🏜️🇫🇮🇩🇪🇹🇼🇨🇳

NanoKVM saga continues, now on new grounds.

Specifications of the KVM’s
- 1x Core (Shared)
- 256MB up to 2GB Memory
- 10GB¹ HDD/SSD/NVMe
- 50/75 Mbit Port, unmetered (FairUse)
- 20x forwarded Ports v4
- /64 or /80 Subnet v6

The specifications depend on the location, you can find those here:
https://nanokvm.net/index.php?p=about

¹You can request an additional disk up to 100GB with justification if available.

The Requirements to get one
- Existing account since 3 months, here on LES Talk
Old LET accounts count also on LES Talk.
- At least 15 Posts in the recent 3 months, no old inactive accounts.
- You need to have 50 posts before you apply

Play nice! zero abuse tolerance.
No TOR, Torrent, VPN’s, email servers or any other ilegal stuff.
If we take notice, that a VM’s gets abused, the VM will be terminated.

How to get one

• Go to: https://nanokvm.net
• Place an Request
• Post the Token here, with an explanation, what you wanna do with it.
  At least 1 sentence
• As soon the Request is accepted, you get your KVM details.
• Keep in mind, that you need to Bookmark the page!

Thanks to our Sponsors to make this Project possible
- Sandefjord (NO), Sponsored by myWallet™
- Fremont (US), Sponsored by IntoVPS
- Eygelshoven (NL), Sponsored by KTS24
- Coeur d'Alene (US), Sponsored by Crunchbits
- Thanks to VMHaus for the Sponsored VPS

Things you should know:
- Keep in mind, the stock system has changed, a placed request is not longer reserved from the stock anymore.
- The Service is provided with no SLA , but we try out best to keep everything running smoothly.
- Support will be provided over LES Talk PM or via email.
- No Backups are done on our side, You are responsible for taking backups of your data.
- There is no term guarantee.

If you have any further questions, let me know.

Neoon.

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Basic Hosting to start
1 GB SSD Storage
Up to 3 Domains
Up to 2 Sub Domains
Up to 5 MariaDB Databases
5 Email Accounts
1 FTP Accounts
1 TB Bandwidth Monthly
Free SSL Certificates
Location: Germany (Hetzner), more location will add soon
Basic Support

Order now

You can find all details about resources limits form the page

No Credit card or anything needed.
Just don't use vpn or proxy to order and everything will fine.

It's our request please do not abuse the service, order only if you really need it.

**Data Protection or GDPR!??**
We are not an European company so we may retain some of the data for accounting purposes only.
But as this is a free plan, so no invoice generate. So we don't need to retain any of your data.
Once you cancel the service, Open a ticket and ask us to remove your profile and we will remove it complete.

We do not store or share any data of our client exept for those requires for accounting and tax filing.

For mods, Please remove the post if it's violated any rules here.

@GTHost, @crunchbits, ScaleBlade @Jack_SBE, @PieHasBeenEaten, and @Abdullah / Webhorizon. have provided bare metal servers to FreeVPS.org. The volunteers at FreeVPS.org use these servers as hypervisor nodes to make free VPSes available to the Community.

FreeVPS Specs

• 1x Core (Fair Share)
• 512MB Memory, up to 1GB with justification
• 10GB NVMe/SSD/HDD, up to 20GB with justification
• 100 Mbps Port
• 20x forwarded ports v4
• /64 v6

Requirements

LES account must be 3 months or older to quality
Active account (you need to have a decent amount of recent posts)
At least 50 or more non-spammy posts

Acceptable Use Policy

Zero abuse tolerance.
All activities MUST adhere to the Donors' policies.
If we take notice that a VM gets abused, the VM will be terminated.

How To Get A Free VPS

Option 1

• Double check that you meet the above Requirements. Then head over to portal.freevps.org, click Register, and sign up. Note both your "Client No: ____" and "Your ID: ____" for use in a meaningful comment in this thread
• Make a meaningful comment in this thread, indicate you want a free VM by adding #ThanksGTHost, #Thankscrunchbits, #ThanksScaleBlade, #ThanksPieHasBeenEaten, and #ThanksWebHorizon somewhere in your comment. Meaningful comments could include, for example: questions, feedback, a suggestion, your preferred location, or your planned use of the server. Don't forget to include both "Client No: ____" and "Your ID: ____" from your sign up.
• To make this fun, and praise the providers/donor's, We require you to send a prayer along the comment you make to get a Free VPS! Long live the donor's!

Option 2

• Make a donation to any charity, post proof and desired specs.
• Donors will get double max resources (up to 2 CPU Cores, 2GB RAM, 40GB SSD, 200Mbps port.
• Guaranteed VM as long as there are available resources.

Node Specs

Node specs and Looking Glass links are posted at FreeVPS.org.

Special Thanks

Thanks to @GTHost, @crunchbits, Scaleblade @Jack_SBE, @PieHasBeenEaten, and @Abdullah for making the FreeVPS.org project possible!
Thanks to @Cloudie for many kinds of help!
Thanks to @Virtfusion for a complimentary license!
Thanks to @TheOnlyDK, @FatGrizzly, and @sh97 for volunteering!
Thanks to @yoursunny for troubleshooting IPv6 issues!
Thanks to @DP for the FreeVPS.org domain name!
Thanks to @Not_Oles for the idea to make FreeVPS.org!

Notes

• There is NO SLA on this service, in fact frequent server reboots might be needed.
• NO support will be provided directly, all help requests must be posted here in this thread.
• No Backups are done on our side, disks are running in RAID0 YOLO mode.
• There is no term guarantee.

Approval

The original offer post was approved by @Mason

What's New At MetalVPS?

• MetalVPS seems to have a new EX101 Node running on an Intel i9-13900 processor at Hetzner's Falkenstein Datacenter in Germany.

• You can create your own chroots, LXC containers, KVM VPSes, and much more from your traditional, command line shell account!

• All Node resources are available for fair use.

Node Specs

root@fsn ~ # date
Mon Apr 10 01:19:20 AM UTC 2023
root@fsn ~ # cat /etc/debian_version 
12.0
root@fsn ~ # lscpu
Architecture:            x86_64
  CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
  Address sizes:         46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
  Byte Order:            Little Endian
CPU(s):                  32
  On-line CPU(s) list:   0-31
Vendor ID:               GenuineIntel
  BIOS Vendor ID:        Intel(R) Corporation
  Model name:            13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900
[ . . . ]
root@fsn ~ # free -h
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            62Gi       936Mi        61Gi       1.1Mi       545Mi        61Gi
Swap:           31Gi          0B        31Gi
root@fsn ~ # df -h . /altroot
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md4        3.4T  1.9G  3.2T   1% /
/dev/md3         98G   24K   93G   1% /altroot
root@fsn ~ # gcc --version
gcc (Debian 12.2.0-14) 12.2.0
Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

root@fsn ~ # 

Network Specs

• 1 Gbps unlimited, fair use

• 1 x IPv4

• 1 x IPv6/64

More About The Hardware

• Processor: Intel® Core™ i9-13900 Processor

• RAM: M324R4GA3BB0-CQK(DDR5 ECC) | DRAM | Samsung Semiconductor Global

• NVMe Disks: SAMSUNG MZQL21T9HCJR-00A07 PCIe Gen 4

Who

• MetalVPS is a project of @Not_Oles a/k/a 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.

Open Source

• Thank you for using open source software at MetalVPS!

Congrats!

• @NodeSeek用户123 wrote a tutorial here at LES (English) and on xlog.app (Chinese) about how to launch Ubuntu with Qemu and RDP and port forwarding.

These congrats are transferred from MetalVPS' wonderful, now-decommissioned Fremont Node. More congrats will be added as people begin to use the new Node.

• @subenhon got udocker working to launch nginx!

• @terrorgen got nix package manager working!

• @rcdfrd got gcc working!

• @rcdfrd got python3 and pip3 working!

• @iaecm used netcat to make a web server!

Warnings!

• Clueless™ administrator! 😀 @Not_Oles frequently messes up! 😱

• @Not_Oles is especially clueless™ about Debian since he is a Debian noob. 🤗

• Hey! This Node runs Debian sid unstable! 🤩 And, it's RAID 0! 😭

• Sometimes trusted MetalVPSians might or might not get sudo. 🙈🙉🙊

• MetalVPS has no billing panel and no server control panel. It's all command line until you install the GUI that you want. 🆕

• MetalVPS has no onboarding and no knowledge base. ♒︎ If you want to make an LXC or KVM VPS, please be willing to research about how to do it on the command line.

• Account delivery might take awhile! 😴

• Accounts 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 not a project of lowendspirit.com, lowendtalk.com, hetzner.com, or freevps.org. 👨‍💻​

• Other MetalVPSians can 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. 🤔

Installed Stuff

• We're just beginning on this Node.

• So far, gcc, git, lxc, qemu-kvm, zsh, and more are installed. Additional configuration is required, but MetalVPSians should be able to compile, to create unprivileged LXC containers, and to create KVM virtual machines.

• Possibilities include installing Go, Plan9port, Docker and Nix. Plus code-server, oksh, Xv6, plan9port, LAMP stack. Plus more. If you want something, please let us know!

How To Sign Up

• Please post in this thread. Only if necessary, please PM @Not_Oles or use the email on @Not_Oles profile.

• If you have a new LES account, please introduce yourself in your post. Please tell us what you plan to do with your MetalVPS account. Please include your ed25519 ssh public key.

Support

• Please post in this thread. Only if necessary, PM or use the email on @Not_Oles profile.

• Additional communication channels might be available via Signal App, Discord, Jitsi, etc.

What People Are Saying

• About MetalVPS

". . . [V]ery cool that MetalVPS is still a thing Thanks for providing this to the community, tinkering with servers is fun and a learning experience!"

"The permanent free shell account of MetalVPS is very fun!" ("MetalVPS的永久免费shell账号挺好玩的")

"This is really really cool."

"I enjoyed the section of the OP dedicated to complementary comments, including helpful links so they can be verified."

"MetalVPS used to be a high end provider, but it's becoming a sorority now."

"fun stuff indeed, appreciating the comfortable computing experience!"

"Liking my darkstar"

"Nice trial and results! Very interesting "

Metalvps recommended on OGF 🙈

"It just crossed my mind that I've been using your server for over half a year! It's been an amazing experience! . . . Your services deserve much more attention. "

"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"

"the fastest VPS I ever used"

"I've been using this one from him. Highly recommend! His support is really amazing!"

"10/10 metalvps recommended"

"very powerful"

"premium stuff"

"Grab it while the hotel still has vacant rooms."

". . . very passionate and enthusiastic about everything. Not all businesses are made this way and it's very easy to see when you interact with them. You are giving the right impression with this industry and it's wonderful to see."

"I think MetalVPS is designed in between a dedicated and a regular VPS. Some use case cannot fill the capacity of a dedicated but need more CPU than a regular VPS, and it makes sense to use MetalVPS in such situation."

• About Not_Oles

"@Not_Oles is really a funfull and helpful grandpa!!"

"especially thanks @Not_Oles , He pointed out my problems and told me the correct way to share. He is a good guy."

"I'm not in need for any free vps at the moment, but thanks for what you're doing. If I had this chance few years ago, I think my life would be different."

"I did want to thank @Not_Oles for always being so friendly. Makes me smile seeing how nice you are to everyone here."

"You are a great person."

"Possibly the most polite and enthusiastic personality in the entire LE* world with a genuine interest that runs so deep he even set up a business exclusively catering for LES. as a regular content writer for LES his articles frequently top the charts in terms of most viewed (according to google)"

"Really, you're the best person I've known on the internet."

"we've found that good, in-depth technical articles tend to drive user interaction and new sign-ups on the forum. @Not_Oles's Proxmox articles are evidence of this."

"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 a great guy!"

"he is the sweetest guy in LES .."

"Everybody loves @Not_Oles! "

"resplendent as the Sonoran Sun"

"god bless not_oles ^^"

"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 "

"He has limited technical skills, so that he's resorting to drama summaries[.]"

Thanks

Tom gets a lot of help from the friendly MetalVPSians and from many other friends.

Thanks again and best wishes! 🇺🇸🗽🇲🇽🇫🇮🇩🇪🏜️

CLOUD RECOMMENDATIONS: Software is GPL and FREE.

**FREE SUPPORT ** available on the VoIP-Info.org Forum.

Edit by @FrankZ: Paid provider offers removed.

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Useful links:
Speedtest: http://94.143.231.110:4101/
Discord: https://discord.gg/qndzZcTrDg

Good luck!

*You'll have the option to select the configuration.

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As I know free offers are a target for abuse every order is checked against Fraudlabs. This also means do not use a VPN when you are ordering.

E-mail accounts are disabled on the free account but feel free to contact support if you have a legitimate use for it.

This offer is for lifetime. Webhosting has a limited lifetime, so while it will be supported for years to come, do not be surprised if it this lifetime offer doesn't live past 10 years. You should have outgrown in by then anyway if you use it for that long.

I hope this offer does not break any rules.

Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions.

We're in the process of (extremely slowly) cleaning up and prepping to move out of one of our warehouses to a new location and throughout this process I've seen that we have a lot of stuff that is non-business-critical and thus becomes e-waste. I don't want to throw it away, and I don't want to become an eBay reseller. The next best idea: free stuff (on LES only).

General rules:
* Your account should have more activity (not spammy) than mine to be considered. There isn't a hard-and-fast rule, if you think you qualify then make a claim.
* Wait 24 hours between "claims" on parts to give others a chance to chime in and get something.
* Items will have a per-claim quantity limit listed if one exists, this resets every 24hrs with the general claim rules.
* You provide us a shipping label at your expense, as well as the required importation docs to be included with said label, if necessary. I do not have the administrative manpower to deal with this, so it is non-negotiable. We will provide all packing materials and package it appropriately. We ship from Spokane, WA, USA.
* I will not and cannot test every piece of hardware here. They worked when pulled, but some of these items have been sitting for 2+ years. No guarantees--accept that risk BEFORE you send us a shipping label. There are no guarantees, refunds, replacements, warranties or anything of that nature. We will test the servers for POST/BIOS before packing due to the hassle and cost of shipping full chassis.
* I can and probably will change rules at any given time, for any given reason. If I forgot something or there is some 'technicality' allowing unintended actions, I will simply change the rules and ignore the request. This is a best-effort giveaway for no reason other than to hope someone can get some decent hardware and use it.

Process to claiming:
1. Reply with the ITEM and QUANTITY requested clearly readable (other conversation/jokes/etc also encouraged, just keep it separated so it is easy to see)
2. I will reply to you and confirm the request publicly as I get around to it, but if you were first you will have first dibs (sans some disqualifying reason).
3. After it has been confirmed, PM me here with ITEM, QUANTITY, and a LINK to your confirmation post by me.
4. We will get you package dimensions and weight, you will give us label and it will go out.

Things I will flat out ignore (and likely never accept a claim from you):
1. Not following procedure above/blatantly ignoring posted procedure and wasting my time.
2. Begging, hassling me/any members of Crunchbits via tickets, PMs, other means.

Overall, intent is to have some fun and share some decent gear.

This thread will be constantly updated with new stuff, so check the newest posts for updated parts availability lists

EASTER EGG HUNT

There is something somewhere in this post that I found to be silly, maybe slightly ridiculous and it makes me laugh. You're probably overthinking it. But it is there.

If you find it, and you are the first (or work with friends and you decide to split prizes somehow) here is what you can claim 1 of:

• RTX 3090 (probably used)
• NIB 65" 4K TV
• 3x 1U servers of better quality than what was listed here and more .. stuff inside them

Good luck

Price
At the time of writing, Convoy is/will currently be $6/node/month for commercial usage (i.e. hosting businesses). Convoy will be free for non-commercial or personal use cases, meaning that it is also an ideal panel for those running home labs or other setups.

Information

• GitHub Repository: https://github.com/ConvoyPanel
• Panel Repository: https://github.com/ConvoyPanel/panel
• Discord Server: https://discord.gg/6nRkMZJJvf (Recommended)
• Developer: @ewang

Integrations
Convoy currently has a Blesta module, which can be found here (developed by Aleksa, costs £30 at time of writing).
Convoy currently has a WIP WHMCS module, which will be open source and free soon (developed by me).

Screenshots

Open Beta
I have decided to host a small open beta for Convoy. If you would like to check out Convoy, find bugs, issues, etc, you can sign up for a small 512MB VPS with 1 IPv6 address.

• Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2 (1 core)
• 512MB DDR4 ECC Memory
• 1 Gbps Shared Unmetered
• Single IPv6 Address
• No IPv4 Access (yet)
• Located in Falkenstein, DE

Order Here >> https://clients.wynservers.com/index.php?rp=/store/vps/convoy-512mb

Please make sure to read the plan terms and full details of the plan before ordering. If you do not have IPv6 access, I would recommend checking out Route48.

Order Requirements:

• You must have at least 25 non-spammy posts/comments on LowEndSpirit.
• You must have at least been a member of LowEndSpirit for 2 weeks.
• If you are a hosting provider, you can immediately skip these requirements.
• You will need to comment the order number. If you've lost it, then make a new order.
• Invoice numbers are not accepted at this time.

These order requirements will get more relaxed once the initial wave of open beta servers have been handed out. There may be some initial issues with the WHMCS integration, but they are being ironed out. If you run into an issue, bug, or have any feedback, you can open a ticket and it will either be forwarded to @ewang or it will be fixed by me (if it's an issue with WHMCS integration).

Open beta will last until May 14th, 2023. There is no SLA policy on these free plans (obviously). Feel free to run stuff such as uptime monitors, Discord bot's, or whatever you want. If we have to do anything to these plans, we will announce any changes 72 hours beforehand.

Hardware and WHMCS integration for Convoy Open Beta has been provided/managed/made by me, so any questions about that should be directed to me. The software itself has been made by @ewang, I am simply posting this thread on his behalf as he is new to LowEndSpirit and I support the Convoy project.

What's New At MetalVPS?

• Debian Linux sid unstable seems to have been installed (replacing the excellent Proxmox) on the new MetalVPS EX100 Intel i9-12900K Node at Hetzner Helsinki.

• MetalVPS hopes to keep both the i9-12900K Node and Debian sid for a long while.

• Yabs

• Want a free, traditional, bare metal Debian sid shell account? Maybe with sudo? 👍 With all node resources shared, fair use? 🎂

Node Specs

root@sid ~ # cat /etc/debian_version 
bookworm/sid
root@sid ~ # free -h
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           125Gi       1.2Gi       125Gi       1.2Mi       180Mi       124Gi
Swap:           15Gi          0B        15Gi
root@sid ~ # date; df -h .
Wed Feb 15 01:38:52 AM UTC 2023
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md4        3.4T  2.7G  3.2T   1% /
root@sid ~ # date; df -h /altroot
Wed Feb 15 01:39:46 AM UTC 2023
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md3         98G   24K   93G   1% /altroot
root@sid ~ # uptime
 01:40:08 up  4:05,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
root@sid ~ # lscpu
Architecture:            x86_64
  CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
  Address sizes:         46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
  Byte Order:            Little Endian
CPU(s):                  24
  On-line CPU(s) list:   0-23
Vendor ID:               GenuineIntel
  BIOS Vendor ID:        Intel(R) Corporation
  Model name:            12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-12900K
[ . . . ]
    Thread(s) per core:  2
    Core(s) per socket:  16
    Socket(s):           1
[ . . . ]
root@sid ~ # 

Network Specs

• 1 Gbps unlimited, fair use

• 1 x IPv4

• 1 x IPv6/64

Who?

• MetalVPS is a project of @Not_Oles a/k/a Tom Miller a/k/a the clueless™ guy.

Where?

• MetalVPS currently has Nodes in Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮 and in Fremont, California USA. 🇺🇸

• The Fremont Node is not included in this offer.

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.

Congrats!

These congrats are transferred from the Fremont Node. More congrats will be added as people begin to use the new Helsinki Node.

• @subenhon got udocker working to launch nginx!

• @terrorgen got nix package manager working!

• @rcdfrd got gcc working!

• @rcdfrd got python3 and pip3 working!

• @iaecm used netcat to make a web server!

Warnings!

• Clueless™ administrator! 😀 @Not_Oles frequently messes up! 😱

• @Not_Oles is especially clueless™ about Debian since he is a Debian noob. 🤗

• Hey! This Node runs Debian unstable! 🤩

• Sometimes trusted MetalVPSians might or might not get sudo. 🙈🙉🙊

• MetalVPS 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. 🆕

• MetalVPS has no onboarding and no knowledge base. ♒︎ If you want to make an LXC or KVM VPS, please be willing to research about how to do it on the command line.

• Account delivery might take awhile! 😴

• Accounts 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 almost 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 not a project of lowendspirit.com, lowendtalk.com, hetzner.com, or of Cloudie Networks, LLC. 👨‍💻​

• Other MetalVPSians can 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. 🤔

Bug Report

• Following the upgrade to sid, reboots sometimes fail to complete until after power is reset. Following power reset, the Node reboots successfully. The issue happened on multiple servers, so it seems not to be a hardware problem.

• Fortunately, after a successful reboot, the server seems stable. A yabs run just now on sid is shown below.

• The problem might be with dbus. Here is some log output for a failed reboot. The errors at the end seem similar to Debian Bug 877642.

Feb 15 00:42:08 sid systemd[1]: Started Regular background program processing daemon.
Feb 15 00:42:08 sid cron[2283]: (CRON) INFO (pidfile fd = 3)
Feb 15 00:42:08 sid cron[2283]: (CRON) INFO (Skipping @reboot jobs -- not system startup)
Feb 15 00:42:08 sid systemd[1]: Stopping Deferred execution scheduler...
Feb 15 00:42:08 sid systemd[1]: atd.service: Succeeded.
Feb 15 00:42:08 sid systemd[1]: Stopped Deferred execution scheduler.
Feb 15 00:42:08 sid systemd[1]: Starting Deferred execution scheduler...
Feb 15 00:42:08 sid systemd[1]: Started Deferred execution scheduler.
Feb 15 00:42:08 sid systemd[1]: Reexecuting.
Feb 15 00:42:08 sid systemd[1]: systemd 247.3-7+deb11u1 running in system mode. (+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP>
Feb 15 00:42:08 sid systemd[1]: Detected architecture x86-64.
Feb 15 00:42:18 sid dbus-daemon[545]: [system] Reloaded configuration
Feb 15 00:42:18 sid dbus-daemon[545]: [system] Reloaded configuration
Feb 15 00:42:18 sid dbus-daemon[545]: [system] Reloaded configuration
Feb 15 00:42:18 sid dbus-daemon[545]: [system] Reloaded configuration
Feb 15 00:42:18 sid dbus-daemon[545]: [system] Reloaded configuration
Feb 15 00:42:19 sid systemd[1]: Reloading.
Feb 15 00:42:19 sid systemd[1]: Reloading.
Feb 15 00:42:19 sid systemd[1]: Reloading.
Feb 15 00:42:19 sid dbus-daemon[545]: [system] Reloaded configuration
Feb 15 00:42:19 sid dbus-daemon[545]: [system] Reloaded configuration
Feb 15 00:42:19 sid dbus-daemon[545]: [system] Reloaded configuration
Feb 15 00:42:20 sid dbus-daemon[545]: [system] Reloaded configuration
Feb 15 00:42:20 sid dbus-daemon[545]: [system] Reloaded configuration
Feb 15 00:42:20 sid dbus-daemon[545]: [system] Reloaded configuration
Feb 15 00:42:20 sid dbus-daemon[545]: [system] Reloaded configuration
Feb 15 00:42:20 sid dbus-daemon[545]: [system] Reloaded configuration
Feb 15 00:42:20 sid dbus-daemon[545]: [system] Reloaded configuration
Feb 15 00:42:20 sid dbus-daemon[545]: [system] Reloaded configuration
Feb 15 00:42:26 sid dbus-daemon[545]: [system] Unable to reload configuration: Failed to open "/usr/share/dbus-1/system.conf": No such file or directory
Feb 15 00:42:26 sid dbus-daemon[545]: Unable to reload configuration: Failed to open "/usr/share/dbus-1/system.conf": No such file or directory
Feb 15 00:42:29 sid systemd[1]: Reexecuting.
Feb 15 00:42:29 sid systemd[1]: systemd 252.5-2 running in system mode (+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +APPARMOR +IMA +SMACK +SECCOMP +GCRYPT -GNUTLS +OPENSSL +ACL >
Feb 15 00:42:29 sid systemd[1]: Detected architecture x86-64.
Feb 15 00:42:29 sid systemd[1]: getty@tty1.service: Current command vanished from the unit file, execution of the command list won't be resumed.
Feb 15 00:42:29 sid systemd-journald[434]: Journal stopped
root@rescue /mnt/var/log/journal # 

Installed Stuff

• We're just beginning on this Node.

• So far, gcc, git, lxc, qemu-kvm, zsh, and more are installed. Additional configuration still is required, but MetalVPSians eventually should be able to compile, to create unprivileged LXC containers, and (if added to the kvm group) to create KVM virtual machines.

• Plans include installing Docker and Nix. Plus code-server, oksh, Xv6, plan9port, LAMP stack. Plus more. If you want something, please let us know!

How To Sign Up

• Please post in this thread. Only if necessary, please PM @Not_Oles or use the email on @Not_Oles profile.

• If you have a new account, please introduce yourself in your post. Please tell us what you plan to do with your account. Please include your ed25519 ssh public key.

Support

• Please post in this thread. Only if necessary, PM or use the email on @Not_Oles profile.

• Additional communication channels might be available via Signal App, Discord, Jitsi, etc.

What People Are Saying

• About MetalVPS

"The permanent free shell account of MetalVPS is very fun!" ("MetalVPS的永久免费shell账号挺好玩的")

"This is really really cool."

"I enjoyed the section of the OP dedicated to complementary comments, including helpful links so they can be verified."

"MetalVPS used to be a high end provider, but it's becoming a sorority now."

"fun stuff indeed, appreciating the comfortable computing experience!"

"Liking my darkstar"

"Nice trial and results! Very interesting "

Metalvps recommended on OGF 🙈

"It just crossed my mind that I've been using your server for over half a year! It's been an amazing experience! . . . Your services deserve much more attention. "

"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"

"the fastest VPS I ever used"

"I've been using this one from him. Highly recommend! His support is really amazing!"

"10/10 metalvps recommended"

"very powerful"

"premium stuff"

"Grab it while the hotel still has vacant rooms."

". . . very passionate and enthusiastic about everything. Not all businesses are made this way and it's very easy to see when you interact with them. You are giving the right impression with this industry and it's wonderful to see."

"I think MetalVPS is designed in between a dedicated and a regular VPS. Some use case cannot fill the capacity of a dedicated but need more CPU than a regular VPS, and it makes sense to use MetalVPS in such situation."

• About Not_Oles

"I'm not in need for any free vps at the moment, but thanks for what you're doing. If I had this chance few years ago, I think my life would be different."

"I did want to thank @Not_Oles for always being so friendly. Makes me smile seeing how nice you are to everyone here."

"You are a great person."

"Possibly the most polite and enthusiastic personality in the entire LE* world with a genuine interest that runs so deep he even set up a business exclusively catering for LES. as a regular content writer for LES his articles frequently top the charts in terms of most viewed (according to google)"

"Really, you're the best person I've known on the internet."

"we've found that good, in-depth technical articles tend to drive user interaction and new sign-ups on the forum. @Not_Oles's Proxmox articles are evidence of this."

"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 a great guy!"

"he is the sweetest guy in LES .."

"Everybody loves @Not_Oles! "

"resplendent as the Sonoran Sun"

"god bless not_oles ^^"

"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

Tom gets a lot of help from the friendly MetalVPSians and from many other friends.

Thanks again and best wishes! 🇺🇸🗽🇲🇽🇫🇮🏜️

Friendly greetings to all! 🌎🌍

What's New?

• IPv4 Ping Monitor

• IPv6 Ping Monitor

  • Alpine Linux seems to have been installed on the MetalVPS antique Intel node at Hurricane Electric Fremont-2.

  • Want a free Alpine shell account? Maybe with sudo? 👍 With all node resources shared, fair use? 🎂 Right now plenty of server resources are available because only a few people are using the Fremont node.

Fremont Node Specs

• Server: Intel S2600GZ

• CPU: 2 x Xeon E5-2630L v2, 2 x 6 cores = 12 cores = 24 threads

• RAM: 32 GB DDR3 ECC (upgrade to 64 GB expected this month)

• Hard Drive: 1 x 500 GB SSD, 2 x 1 TB HDD

• IP Addresses: IPv4/28, IPv6/48

• Connection: 1 GBit/s port

• Bandwidth: Fair use

• Datacenter: Hardware rented from Cloudie Networks, LLC inside Hurricane Electric Fremont 2, Fremont, California USA 🇺🇸

• Node OS: Alpine Linux 3.17 edge! 🤩 NetBSD might or might not be coming soon! ❤️

• VM OS: Whatever you install!

Who?

• MetalVPS is a project of @Not_Oles a/k/a Tom Miller a/k/a the clueless™ guy.

Where?

• MetalVPS currently has nodes in Falkenstein, Germany 🇩🇪 and Fremont, California USA. 🇺🇸

• This thread is for the Fremont node. 🇺🇸

• The Falkenstein node has its own offer thread.

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.

Congrats!

• @subenhon got udocker working to launch nginx!

• @terrorgen got nix package manager working!

• @rcdfrd got gcc working!

• @rcdfrd got python3 and pip3 working!

• @iaecm used netcat to make a web server!

Warnings!

• Clueless™ administrator! 😀 @Not_Oles frequently messes up! 😱

• @Not_Oles is especially clueless™ about Alpine since he is an Alpine noob. 🤗

• Hey! Fremont runs Alpine 3.17 edge! 🤩

• Sometimes trusted MetalVPSians might or might not get sudo. 🙈🙉🙊

• MetalVPS 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. 🆕

• MetalVPS has no onboarding and no knowledge base. ♒︎ If you want to make an LXC or KVM VPS, please be willing to research about how to do it on the command line. 🥰

• Account delivery might take awhile! 😴

• Accounts 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 almost 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 a/k/a Tom Miller with help from the MetalVPSians and many other friends. MetalVPS.com is not a project of lowendspirit.com, lowendtalk.com, or of Cloudie Networks, LLC. 👨‍💻​

• Other MetalVPSians can 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. Only if necessary, please PM @Not_Oles or use the email on @Not_Oles profile.

Support

• Please post in this thread. Only if necessary, PM or use the email on @Not_Oles profile.

• Additional communication channels might be available via Signal App, Discord, Jitsi, etc.

What People Are Saying

• About MetalVPS

"This is really really cool."

"I enjoyed the section of the OP dedicated to complementary comments, including helpful links so they can be verified."

"MetalVPS used to be a high end provider, but it's becoming a sorority now."

"fun stuff indeed, appreciating the comfortable computing experience!"

"Liking my darkstar"

"Nice trial and results! Very interesting "

Metalvps recommended on OGF 🙈

"It just crossed my mind that I've been using your server for over half a year! It's been an amazing experience! . . . Your services deserve much more attention. "

"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"

"the fastest VPS I ever used"

"I've been using this one from him. Highly recommend! His support is really amazing!"

"10/10 metalvps recommended"

"very powerful"

"premium stuff"

"Grab it while the hotel still has vacant rooms."

". . . very passionate and enthusiastic about everything. Not all businesses are made this way and it's very easy to see when you interact with them. You are giving the right impression with this industry and it's wonderful to see."

"I think MetalVPS is designed in between a dedicated and a regular VPS. Some use case cannot fill the capacity of a dedicated but need more CPU than a regular VPS, and it makes sense to use MetalVPS in such situation."

• About Not_Oles

"I did want to thank @Not_Oles for always being so friendly. Makes me smile seeing how nice you are to everyone here."

"You are a great person."

"Possibly the most polite and enthusiastic personality in the entire LE* world with a genuine interest that runs so deep he even set up a business exclusively catering for LES. as a regular content writer for LES his articles frequently top the charts in terms of most viewed (according to google)"

"Really, you're the best person I've known on the internet."

"we've found that good, in-depth technical articles tend to drive user interaction and new sign-ups on the forum. @Not_Oles's Proxmox articles are evidence of this."

"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 a great guy!"

"he is the sweetest guy in LES .."

"Everybody loves @Not_Oles! "

"resplendent as the Sonoran Sun"

"god bless not_oles ^^"

"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! 🇺🇸🗽🇲🇽🏜️

Storage     3 GB
Monthly transfer    unlimited
Websites    100
MySQL databases     10
PostgreSQL databases    3
MongoDB databases   3
GIT/SVN/HG repositories     3
TCP/UDP ports   3
PHP interpreters    3
System processes    15
RAM memory  512 MB
Backups     7 days
Server placement    European Union

Support of PHP scripts (versions 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2)
Django, Pyramid, Catalyst, RoR, Node.js, Redmine, Trac
Python, Ruby, Perl, Java, TCL/TK, Lua, Erlang, Rust, Pascal, C, C++, D, R
Repositories: GIT, SVN & HG (Mercurial)
Databases: MySQL 8.0, PostgreSQL 11, MongoDB 4.4
Access to SSH and ability to manage account using the devil command
SSL (SNI) certificate support
Free Let's encrypt certificates
Custom error pages
Unlimited mail aliases
Anti-spam and anti-virus mail protection
E-mail via IMAP and POP3 with SSL/TLS and via WWW (webmail)
Crontab tasks
Ability to run your own software
Daily backups
No artificial limit for a single file size
DNS servers for your domains
.htaccess and mod_rewrite support
PHP execution limit of 180 seconds
HTTP/2 support
Friendly and easy to use account management interface - DevilWEB
Automatically created accounts

Based on the LEB video, their server is probably located in Germany, and there is no one-click installer available

My 2 cents:
up to date PHP
lots of features, including some really rare ones (Pascal! )
only 3 gigs of space
"PHP interpreters 3" and "System processes 15" suggest that this may be suitable only for very low traffic websites, or as a dev environment

EDIT: Sorry, I unintentionally deleted the original poll while slightly editing OP -_-' (AFAIR the votes were 1/1/1)

This server, details below, currently is set to cancel on April 1 March 26. Meanwhile, free shell accounts, maybe with sudo, might be available for friendly LESbians!

If anyone wants an account, please post your request here in this thread together with your ed25519 ssh public key. Thanks and best wishes!

[root@rawhide ~]# uname -r
6.3.0-0.rc1.20230307git8ca09d5fa354.17.fc39.x86_64
[root@rawhide ~]# curl -sL yabs.sh | bash
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2023-02-27                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #

Thu Mar  9 02:28:30 AM UTC 2023

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 1 hours, 58 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9900K CPU @ 3.60GHz
CPU cores  : 16 @ 4102.155 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 125.6 GiB
Swap       : 8.0 GiB
Disk       : 3.7 TiB # See output of df, smartcl, and btrfs filesystem show, posted below.
Distro     : Fedora Linux 39 (Rawhide Prerelease)
Kernel     : 6.3.0-0.rc1.20230307git8ca09d5fa354.17.fc39.x86_64
VM Type    : NONE

Basic Network Information:
---------------------------------
Protocol   : IPv6
ISP        : Hetzner Online GmbH
ASN        : AS24940 Hetzner Online GmbH
Location   : Tuusula, Uusimaa (18)
Country    : Finland

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 518.28 MB/s (129.5k) | 489.04 MB/s   (7.6k)
Write      | 519.65 MB/s (129.9k) | 491.61 MB/s   (7.6k)
Total      | 1.03 GB/s   (259.4k) | 980.66 MB/s  (15.3k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 500.09 MB/s    (976) | 445.76 MB/s    (435)
Write      | 526.66 MB/s   (1.0k) | 475.45 MB/s    (464)
Total      | 1.02 GB/s     (2.0k) | 921.21 MB/s    (899)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 920 Mbits/sec   | 909 Mbits/sec   | 34.2 ms        
Scaleway        | Paris, FR (10G)           | 919 Mbits/sec   | 599 Mbits/sec   | 40.0 ms        
NovoServe       | North Holland, NL (40G)   | 924 Mbits/sec   | 922 Mbits/sec   | 30.3 ms        
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 902 Mbits/sec   | 673 Mbits/sec   | 63.2 ms        
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 871 Mbits/sec   | 459 Mbits/sec   | 98.1 ms        
Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 842 Mbits/sec   | 218 Mbits/sec   | 133 ms         
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 791 Mbits/sec   | 249 Mbits/sec   | 155 ms         

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 909 Mbits/sec   | 900 Mbits/sec   | 34.2 ms        
Scaleway        | Paris, FR (10G)           | 906 Mbits/sec   | 886 Mbits/sec   | 37.5 ms        
NovoServe       | North Holland, NL (40G)   | 911 Mbits/sec   | 913 Mbits/sec   | 30.5 ms        
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 890 Mbits/sec   | 595 Mbits/sec   | 63.2 ms        
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 863 Mbits/sec   | 389 Mbits/sec   | 98.3 ms        
Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 836 Mbits/sec   | 269 Mbits/sec   | 133 ms         
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 815 Mbits/sec   | 304 Mbits/sec   | 155 ms         

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 1731                          
Multi Core      | 7620                          
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/463869

YABS completed in 10 min 35 sec
[root@rawhide ~]# 

Yabs and df, smartctl, and btrfs filesystem show might seem to disagree about the disk sizes. Here's what df says.

[root@rawhide ~]# df -h 
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs        4.0M     0  4.0M   0% /dev
tmpfs            63G     0   63G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs            26G  844K   26G   1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p3  1.9T  2.5G  1.9T   1% /
/dev/nvme0n1p2  974M  219M  688M  25% /boot
/dev/nvme0n1p3  1.9T  2.5G  1.9T   1% /home
tmpfs            63G     0   63G   0% /tmp
tmpfs            13G     0   13G   0% /run/user/0
[root@rawhide ~]# 

Here's what smartctl says.

[root@rawhide ~]# smartctl -i /dev/nvme0
smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.3.0-0.rc1.20230307git8ca09d5fa354.17.fc39.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Number:                       KXG60ZNV1T02 TOSHIBA
Serial Number:                      
Firmware Version:                   AGGA4104
PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID:            0x1179
IEEE OUI Identifier:                0x8ce38e
Total NVM Capacity:                 1,024,209,543,168 [1.02 TB]
Unallocated NVM Capacity:           0
Controller ID:                      0
NVMe Version:                       1.3
Number of Namespaces:               1
Namespace 1 Size/Capacity:          1,024,209,543,168 [1.02 TB]
Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size:     512
Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64:            8ce38e 05001f1a9a
Local Time is:                      Thu Mar  9 02:49:24 2023 UTC

[root@rawhide ~]# smartctl -i /dev/nvme1
smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.3.0-0.rc1.20230307git8ca09d5fa354.17.fc39.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Number:                       KXG60ZNV1T02 TOSHIBA
Serial Number:                      
Firmware Version:                   AGGA4104
PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID:            0x1179
IEEE OUI Identifier:                0x8ce38e
Total NVM Capacity:                 1,024,209,543,168 [1.02 TB]
Unallocated NVM Capacity:           0
Controller ID:                      0
NVMe Version:                       1.3
Number of Namespaces:               1
Namespace 1 Size/Capacity:          1,024,209,543,168 [1.02 TB]
Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size:     512
Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64:            8ce38e 05001f1a4c
Local Time is:                      Thu Mar  9 02:51:13 2023 UTC

[root@rawhide ~]#

And here's btrfs filesystem show

[root@rawhide ~]# btrfs filesystem show
Label: 'fedora_new'  uuid: 4710f5ad-c55d-45d4-8466-2691fd9aba9c
        Total devices 2 FS bytes used 2.35GiB
        devid    1 size 952.87GiB used 7.02GiB path /dev/nvme0n1p3
        devid    2 size 953.87GiB used 9.01GiB path /dev/nvme1n1p1

[root@rawhide ~]# 

FWIW, my first time with Rawhide. Also my first time with btrfs. Used the default Anaconda install.

Help us test a beta of a work in progress: IncogVPN

What: A free beta of our work-in-progress WireGuard or IKEv2 VPN. It features DNS over Tor (DNS leak tests should show different Tor exits each time), we don't log your requests, no PII is required to order, and it blocks ads. Cool.

Speeds are capped at 100Mbps for each client for this beta.

Why is it free: So we can measure usage / resource consumption of a service under actual real world use. We'll measure things like bandwidth consumption and things like CPU/Mem/Disk performance under proper real-world load. This will help us determine what is needed for production. Additionally, since we're doing ad-blocking, we can either increase or decrease the blocklist if needed to better the service before the official launch, based on user input.

How do I join: No PII is required, but you will need to register in our billing portal (just need an email address). Links below:

Wireguard or IKEv2

Just go to your products/services and select the Beta VPN Service. Your config info will be there. (Looks like this). No email will be sent to you for this beta, and the configuration is automatically generated upon checkout.

Sign ups are limited, and may be closed at any time. And of course, any account may be closed at any time if we suspect abuse during this beta. If abuse begins to become a problem, we may require a small deposit that will be refunded at the end of the beta period for new accounts. But for now, have at it. Just be good and mindful of others.

!!! This beta is only available in our Idaho, USA location right now !!!

How long is it free for?: I don't know. Probably a month, at least.

Can I test a different location instead of Idaho?: No. This is where we have the most spare resources and plentiful bandwidth. Production service locations are listed below.

Production service will be available in:

USA: Idaho, Nevada, Florida, New York
Europe: Luxembourg, Netherlands

We may add additional locations in the future, but the above six locations will be our starting six. In these six locations, we are already setup to use our own IP space and ASN, which is an important feature for us when offering this.

Will you have an app?: No, and we don't have any plans for one. This is a barebones service and the configuration works with the official Wireguard client app.

Want to know when we enter production?

Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/IncogNetLLC
Follow Us on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@incognet

Rather than letting them idle we're offering them to existing NATVPS customers until they expire, these will come with a dedicated IPv4 address and up to 8 cores, 16GB RAM and 1TB disk.

Please be aware that they will only remain active until Rapidswitch power these hosts down.

There is no CPU or IO limits for this period, as long as your activities don't abuse any other items of our ToS you can do what you like with them!

DM me if interested with the specs you require.

Please respond either in DM or here if interested.

Victor

So as a part of the project I am currently working on I am going to be doing some free shared webhosting. Just for small sites to help people get into it and get things up and running. These accounts are not meant for full blown, big hit count sites but should be alright for low traffic, static, or even a blog that has low traffic.

I am giving out five accounts to start but I wish to see them used. Which means if you do not intend to use it please do not take one.

The package is:

1.5 GB Space
50 GB Bandwidth
2 Domains
10 Sub Domains
2 Databases
2 Emails

The server utilizes Debian 11, Mariadb, PHP 8.1, Apache with Nginx proxy, LetsEncrypt, PhpMyAdmin, it has an installer with WordPress is that is your fancy.

The server is located in Seattle.

Basically these are test runs to see how things will pan out, but hey it is a free account.

If you are interested letme know here and I shall PM login details.

This offer is exclusive to LES as I have stopped visiting the OGF.

dediserver.net

Grabbed from @Amadex but never used since.
First come, first served.
Conditions:

• You need to be an established member on LES i.e. not just registered.
• You'll need a Porkbun account in good standing.
• PM your Porkbun username.

Good luck!

Bare metal traditional shell accounts and/or pretty much anything else Proxmox or Proxmox's underlying Debian can do.

Friendly greetings to all! 🌎🌍

root@ex100 ~ # free -h
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           125Gi       1.2Gi       123Gi        47Mi       457Mi       123Gi
Swap:          6.0Gi          0B       6.0Gi
root@ex100 ~ # df -h .
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg0-root  3.4T  3.1G  3.2T   1% /
root@ex100 ~ # df -h /altroot 
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md2         98G   28K   93G   1% /altroot
root@ex100 ~ # cat /etc/debian_version 
11.6
root@ex100 ~ # uptime
 22:10:26 up 19:03,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
root@ex100 ~ # lscpu
Architecture:                    x86_64
CPU op-mode(s):                  32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order:                      Little Endian
Address sizes:                   46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
CPU(s):                          24
On-line CPU(s) list:             0-23
Thread(s) per core:              1
Core(s) per socket:              16
Socket(s):                       1
NUMA node(s):                    1
Vendor ID:                       GenuineIntel
CPU family:                      6
Model:                           151
Model name:                      12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-12900K
Stepping:                        2
CPU MHz:                         3200.000
CPU max MHz:                     5200.0000
CPU min MHz:                     800.0000
BogoMIPS:                        6374.40
Virtualization:                  VT-x
L1d cache:                       384 KiB
L1i cache:                       256 KiB
L2 cache:                        10 MiB
NUMA node0 CPU(s):               0-23
  [ . . . ]
root@ex100 ~ # 

As of January 18, 2023 free accounts remain available! However the server is set to cancel on February 7, 2023. The cancellation might be revoked. Users might be invited to transfer to a different server. This server might be available for transfer if someone wants it.

What's New?

• Proxmox seems to have been installed on a MetalVPS antique Intel node at Hetzner FSN1.

• Want a free account? Maybe with sudo? 👍 Right now plenty of server resources are available because there is nobody using the FSN1 node except @Not_Oles. Fair use, but your VM specs don't have to be tiny. 🐷

• Maybe VMs might be IPv6/128 only for now? If you have only IPv4, perhaps head over to Route48.org or Hurricane Electric Tunnel Broker to add free IPv6 capability. Also consider putting your web service behind a CDN which allows access via IPv4.

• Maybe LXC only for now?

Node Specs

• Intel Core i9-9900K
• 1 x HDD SATA 16 TB Enterprise
• 2 x SSD M.2 NVMe 1 TB
• 4 x RAM 32768 MB DDR4
• NIC 1 Gbit Intel I219-LM
• Location: FSN1

• 1 x Primary IPv4, 1 x IPv6/64

• Hardware rented from Hetzner for € 81.70 / month.

• Node OS: Proxmox for now! 🤩 Gentoo or FreeBSD or NetBSD might or might not be coming soon! ❤️

• VM OS: Whatever you/we install!

Who?

• MetalVPS is a project of @Not_Oles a/k/a Tom Miller a/k/a the clueless™ guy.

Where?

• MetalVPS currently has nodes in Falkenstein, Germany 🇩🇪; Dallas, Texas USA 🇺🇸; and Fremont, California USA 🇺🇸.

• The Dallas and Freemont nodes are not included in this free offer.

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 requirement (please see below, How To Sign Up) to accompany applications with a link to a post here on LES where you helped someone else might encourage our wonderful Low End Spirit!

Warnings!

• Clueless™ administrator! 😀 @Not_Oles frequently messes up! 😱

• @Not_Oles is especially clueless™ about Proxmox since he is a Proxmox noob. 🤗

• Sometimes trusted MetalVPSians might or might not get sudo. 🙈🙉🙊

• 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 use the Proxmox web GUI. Maybe you can make your VM with the Proxmox 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 almost 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 a/k/a Tom Miller with help from the MetalVPSians and many other friends. MetalVPS.com is not a project of lowendspirit.com, lowendtalk.com, Hetzner, leveloneservers.com, or of Cloudie Networks, LLC. 👨‍💻​

• 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.

• Please include in your request a link to a post here on LES where you helped someone else.

Support

• Please post in this thread.

• Additional communication channels might be available via Signal App, Discord, Jitsi, etc.

What People Are Saying

• About MetalVPS

"This is really really cool."

"I enjoyed the section of the OP dedicated to complementary comments, including helpful links so they can be verified."

"MetalVPS used to be a high end provider, but it's becoming a sorority now."

"fun stuff indeed, appreciating the comfortable computing experience!"

"Liking my darkstar"

"Nice trial and results! Very interesting "

Metalvps recommended on OGF 🙈

"It just crossed my mind that I've been using your server for over half a year! It's been an amazing experience! . . . Your services deserve much more attention. "

"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"

"the fastest VPS I ever used"

"I've been using this one from him. Highly recommend! His support is really amazing!"

"10/10 metalvps recommended"

"very powerful"

"premium stuff"

"Grab it while the hotel still has vacant rooms."

". . . very passionate and enthusiastic about everything. Not all businesses are made this way and it's very easy to see when you interact with them. You are giving the right impression with this industry and it's wonderful to see."

"I think MetalVPS is designed in between a dedicated and a regular VPS. Some use case cannot fill the capacity of a dedicated but need more CPU than a regular VPS, and it makes sense to use MetalVPS in such situation."

• About Not_Oles

"I did want to thank @Not_Oles for always being so friendly. Makes me smile seeing how nice you are to everyone here."

"You are a great person."

"Possibly the most polite and enthusiastic personality in the entire LE* world with a genuine interest that runs so deep he even set up a business exclusively catering for LES. as a regular content writer for LES his articles frequently top the charts in terms of most viewed (according to google)"

"Really, you're the best person I've known on the internet."

"we've found that good, in-depth technical articles tend to drive user interaction and new sign-ups on the forum. @Not_Oles's Proxmox articles are evidence of this."

"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 a great guy!"

"he is the sweetest guy in LES .."

"Everybody loves @Not_Oles! "

"resplendent as the Sonoran Sun"

"god bless not_oles ^^"

"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! 🇺🇸🗽🇲🇽🏜️🇩🇪👨‍💻​

I'm new here so to introduce my self I am going to match an existing offer that was once recently offered on here.

We are going to give away 30x AMD 5950x VM Servers with the following specs.

1 GB RAM
1 AMD RYZEN 5950X Core
15 GB NVMe Storage
10 TB transfer per month
110 MB Inbound/Outbound (Limited)

to claim this you can head over to
https://cloud.nvmenetworks.com/index.php?rp=/store/lowendspirit
and use promocode LES-W8UB44VZOF

Please allow for changes as we try to keep our services clean of all disallowed activity.

_make sure to read
_https://nvmenetworks.com/tos

**here is our ASN
**https://bgp.tools/as/210912

**Dedicated Server location
**Falkenstein

**BGP Session Location
**Berlin

**Yabbs Report

Fri 06 Jan 2023 11:59:07 PM CET

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 16 hours, 39 minutes
Processor  : AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor
CPU cores  : 32 @ 3546.450 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 125.8 GiB
Swap       : 4.0 GiB
Disk       : 3.4 TiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Kernel     : 5.10.0-19-amd64

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 705.89 MB/s (176.4k) | 2.24 GB/s    (35.1k)
Write      | 707.75 MB/s (176.9k) | 2.26 GB/s    (35.3k)
Total      | 1.41 GB/s   (353.4k) | 4.51 GB/s    (70.4k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 2.50 GB/s     (4.8k) | 2.51 GB/s     (2.4k)
Write      | 2.63 GB/s     (5.1k) | 2.67 GB/s     (2.6k)
Total      | 5.14 GB/s    (10.0k) | 5.19 GB/s     (5.0k)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 928 Mbits/sec   | 931 Mbits/sec   | 19.9 ms        
Scaleway        | Paris, FR (10G)           | busy            | 932 Mbits/sec   | 16.0 ms        
NovoServe       | North Holland, NL (40G)   | 933 Mbits/sec   | 932 Mbits/sec   | 10.4 ms        
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 890 Mbits/sec   | 519 Mbits/sec   | 81.7 ms        
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 885 Mbits/sec   | 378 Mbits/sec   | 83.1 ms        
Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 853 Mbits/sec   | 303 Mbits/sec   | 123 ms         
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 837 Mbits/sec   | 251 Mbits/sec   | 141 ms         

Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 1621                          
Multi Core      | 12767                         
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/19743401

YABS completed in 5 min 48 sec

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/19743401**

Mod edit by FrankZ: This provider has a pending provider tag awaiting his fulfillment of the 7 day 5 post rule. I asked him to introduce himself to the community during that time. I expect that a free offer to LESbians was a good way to do that.

Hello,
2023 is here, it's the end of January already I can't believe it.

At the beginning of each year, our company looks to expand to a new location.
This year with many options on the table we need YOUR help!

Please fill out the survey below and help our team choose the best location and hardware for our 2023 expansion.
https://forms.gle/PDWSXgF2HB1wGWZP9

In addition as a tacky marketing tactic to get this thread more views, we are doing giveaways!

REPLY BELOW WITH THE TEXT "LevelOneServers.com 2023!"
to be entered to win our giveaways - Survey is not required to win (but we would appreciate you filling it out).

Maximum 1 entry per LowEndSpirit account.

Giveaway items:

5x $10 account credit @ LevelOneServers.com
1x SteelSeries Apex 3 TKL RGB Gaming Keyboard
1x RGB Mousepad Led Mouse Pad

Giveaway winners will be chosen Saturday, February 4th, 2023.

Note: Winners outside of the US will be given account credit (equal to the value of the item) instead of an item due to shipping from Amazon.

Skiff Mail - An end-to-end encrypted inbox that keeps your messages private to you. Add multiple aliases, use custom domains, and import existing email for an even more powerful inbox. Easily migrate from Gmail, ProtonMail or Outlook.
Skiff Pages - Write, share, and upload end-to-end encrypted documents and notes on Skiff Pages. Jump directly from your inbox to a full collaborative suite, including powerful tables, in-page embeds, and real-time collaboration.
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Skiff Calendar - Protects your personal and professional life by keeping your schedule end-to-end encrypted.

Here's the ref link which gives extra 500 MB storage - https://app.skiff.com/signup?mail&referral=skiffor

Non-ref link - https://skiff.com/

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."

"This is really really cool."

"I enjoyed the section of the OP dedicated to complementary comments, including helpful links so they can be verified."

"fun stuff indeed, appreciating the comfortable computing experience!"

"Liking my darkstar"

"Nice trial and results! Very interesting "

Metalvps recommended on OGF 🙈

"It just crossed my mind that I've been using your server for over half a year! It's been an amazing experience! . . . Your services deserve much more attention. "

"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"

"the fastest VPS I ever used"

"I've been using this one from him. Highly recommend! His support is really amazing!"

"10/10 metalvps recommended"

"very powerful"

"premium stuff"

"Grab it while the hotel still has vacant rooms."

". . . very passionate and enthusiastic about everything. Not all businesses are made this way and it's very easy to see when you interact with them. You are giving the right impression with this industry and it's wonderful to see."

"I think MetalVPS is designed in between a dedicated and a regular VPS. Some use case cannot fill the capacity of a dedicated but need more CPU than a regular VPS, and it makes sense to use MetalVPS in such situation."

• About Not_Oles

"I did want to thank @Not_Oles for always being so friendly. Makes me smile seeing how nice you are to everyone here."

"You are a great person."

"Possibly the most polite and enthusiastic personality in the entire LE* world with a genuine interest that runs so deep he even set up a business exclusively catering for LES. as a regular content writer for LES his articles frequently top the charts in terms of most viewed (according to google)"

"Really, you're the best person I've known on the internet."

"we've found that good, in-depth technical articles tend to drive user interaction and new sign-ups on the forum. @Not_Oles's Proxmox articles are evidence of this."

"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 a great guy!"

"he is the sweetest guy in LES .."

"Everybody loves @Not_Oles! "

"resplendent as the Sonoran Sun"

"god bless not_oles ^^"

"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! 🇺🇸🗽🇲🇽🏜️🇩🇪👨‍💻​

Dell poweredge R520
-2x intel xeon 2407 cpus
-32gb ddr3 ecc memory
-8 x 2tb sas hdd disks
-Rack rails included

Tested and working, has been used for storage for a long time. Not needed anymore, and since it is hard to get anything for it locally, i would like to give it to someone here, who would actually use it for something useful. The server market here is very limited, and for those who are actually running such equipment here, they want newer hardware, and not old relics like this. Yes i can post it locally and give it away, but then it would just get in the hands of someone looking to make money. I want to give the server to someone who actually are going to USE IT, and not just resell it for a few $$

To get the server, you have to :
-Have a account here who isnt brand new, and have some not spammy posts from it.
-Be able to pick it up, or arrange / pay for shipping
-Tell us what you are going to use it for
-When recieved, show us that you are actually using it, and not just reselling it for profits.

The server is located in Eastern Norway. If you are able to pick it up, it would be 100% for free. If you cannot pick it up, i can arrange shipping, at the recievers cost

If this is not allowed, please just delete the post.

Heres a bad photo of the actual server :
https://imgur.com/a/YLKb4Ys

Heres a photo of the disk model in the server :
https://imgur.com/XXkTJKD

Ill pick someone within 24 hours to get the server.

Ends 13-01-2023

(For mods I'm unsure if this posts fits this category please move it if not.)

Did you always want to have IPv6 at home, but your ISP doesn't realise it's 2022 and refused to deploy it?
Have you ever thought how cool it would be to have your own personal IPv6 block with your own whois information on it?
Just imagine... how awesome it would be able to do real-world BGP and control your own IPv6 space?
Imagine, no more! We want to formally introduce Route48.org! Your new free TunnelBroker, IPv6 network allocator, and BGP session / IPv6 transit provider! Yes Free, instant, and automatic!

What is Route48, and why should we care?

The idea behind this project is to enable a regular user to learn, use and play with IPv6, BGP, and networking in a safe, free and automated manner. As an LIR it is our responsibility to promote and endorse the use of IPv6 to our end clients and serve them with the opportunity to learn and use IP resources (in this case IPv6 resources)
We take pride in knowing that we are actively supporting the adoption of IPv6 for users that would otherwise find it too difficult. But now, without further ado lets go over the features of this new platform:

IPv6 Tunnel Broker

Route48's tunnel broker functionality enables any user to create what is called a 6in4 tunnel. This gives you the ability to create a simple, VPN-like, tunnel where you get allocated a full /48 IPv6 block and you can route all your IPv6 traffic through one of our nodes. 6in4 tunnel enables any user to bring IPv6 into their home network or to a server that is IPv4 only. From over 13 geographical locations (and growing) you're able to choose the location that is closest to you or your server.

Automated IPv6 prefix Allocation

Everyone wants to have their IP space and be able to manage the space themselves. Well, now you can, and you can do this for free. In Route48 we can assign and allocate multiple IPv6 prefixes, this means you can control the name, and country and even add your RIPE maintainer to the assigned IPv6 network. You can even take the newly assigned IPv6 space to your hosting providers and ask them to announce the prefix on their network and route the IPv6 space to your existing server(s). We provide LOAs, and each allocation is automatically signed with an RPKI ROA and IRR object. Let's also keep in mind how much of a perfect excuse this would be to learn how to manage IP resources on the RIPE database, securely and safely using your RIPE account.

Automated BGP Sessions

Now we all know that once you have your IP address, the next step is to get them announced and routed on the internet. While you can use the allocated address space with whatever upstream you wish, Route48 offers automatic BGP sessions over your IPv6 tunnels. This means you can start exporting and announcing your newly allocated IPv6 networks using your BGP sessions and route them to where you wish! (Free and automated IPv6 transit for your newly allocated IPv6 space)

Route48 Global Network & Sponsors

Route48 is proud to be able to offer so many different node locations for 6in4 tunnels and for transit, as of right now we have nodes in 13 different locations around the world (and a few more in the works)
Yes, all of this is free! But how? Well, we are lucky enough to have a few hosting providers who were willing to sponsor IP space and servers for this project, this is the reason we can offer such a diverse number of locations with such flexible and automated features.

Further Disclosure...

This project is a joint partnership between Cloudie Networks & Zappie Host. Administration of all nodes in use provided by our sponsors and directly, are done so by only Cloudie Networks, & Zappie Host.

In short, this platform can empower end-users to do more with IPv6 and be less locked into what your hosting provider or ISP provides you. Let's be honest, who doesn't want an IPv6 address that has the words b00b in it :P

P.S. we love feedback, criticism, and suggestions. If you have an idea or even a question about this project, we would love to hear it!

4. Enable always on
5. Forward ports if needed
6. Start container with the terminal icon, run passwd and set a new password

7. Go into settings again to check ssh port
8. Connect and enojy!

by default they add a broken repo to the ubuntu 16.04 image (possibly also the 18.04 image, didn't test), you can safely remove it by removing /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cloudfoundry-cli.list

Board 1:
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Board 2:
Supermicro x7 - Dual core C2D 2GB RAM

Board 3:
Supermicro x7 - Dual core C2D 2GB RAM

I’m in the UK but can ship anywhere if costs are covered.

Yetis celebrate Christmas for five days so there will be five gifts in all. One each day until we reach Yeti Christmas. Everyone is eligible to receive a gift. Time here, or OG status means nothing to Yeti Claws. Each day yeti Claws will give away a gift and all you have to do is post here to be elgible. This includes Mods and Admins as well since titles mean nothing to Yeti Claws!!!

So sit back chat amongst yourselves here, post your Santa gifs, pics, memes. Knowing Yeti Claws is watching and bringing the gifts.

Specification

• 1 vCPU, Ryzen 9 3900X, 25% persistent usage allowance
• 512MB RAM
• 20GB SSD
• 1 dedicated IPv4 and /64 on-link IPv6
• 10TB monthly transfer, counted in both directions

Information

• YABS benchmark: YABS archive
• network looking glass: Naaldwijk
• host node: NL-05
• service IP: 23.137.249.146, 2602:fc24:11:212c::1
• involucration risk: 5%
• price increase risk: 20%

Beware that this VPS has been operating as a Tor exit node for the past few months.
The IP addresses have been blocked in many websites including Google and Cloudflare.
This VPS is only suitable for operating Tor exit nodes or similar public proxy services.

Service Price paid to provider

• billing cycle: every year
• recurring price: USD $25
• next invoice date: 2023-01-02

Provider Transfer Policy

From this answer:
Service transfer is possible, the other person just needs to create an account first and we can push the service to them and it will renew on the same date / interval as with the previous owner.

Claim Instructions

This is a free offer.
To claim this service transfer:

1. Register an account on IncogNET Client Area.
2. Determine the email address published as ContactInfo of my Tor exit node.
3. Write an email to the ContactInfo email address:
   • You must send this email from the same email address as your IncogNET account.
   • In the subject, write: request IncogNET service transfer
   • In the email body, include this token: baf499bf-aaf0-44b4-9106-92defc7f9a07
   • You do not need to include any personal information.

When the service transfer has been claimed, the SHA256 digest of your email address will be revealed on the forums, but the email address itself will not be revealed.

We're looking for some help from the community and in return we will pay in either the form of a VPS or Instance credits.

Design Contest:

Help us define out brand colour scheme!
I think we can all agree that our colouring is not very pleasant on the eyes, we want to define our branding with a set of fonts, colours and general design guidelines. Below is a screenshot of the micronode panel as things stand. If you're a design/photoshop wizz and you can make an improvement that impresses us you will win 2x Micronode credits for one year!

The layout must remain the same, colour changes and font changes only please!

Technical Guides Contest:
Have you installed wordpress on a Micronode VM or Instance?
Have you setup a popular web application, game server or service that you feel other people may want to setup?

We need technical guides! Guides should ideally be submitted in the following formats: .pdf, .docx, Google Docs.

Comment below if you would like to write a guide and let us know the general idea, If we feel that this is something we need the winners will receive a VPS in any of our locations with up to 512MB RAM and 20GB Disk!

The prizes are open to negotiation, impress us and we'll make it worth your while!

Web Design Contest:
Micronode doesn't have a website... I know I know, we haven't exactly gotten our priorities correct here.

We need a basic website to showcase our products, this can be Wordpress or static. It doesn't need to be mindbogglingly amazing but it does need to look professional.

We can negotiate a prize or payment for this one but don't expect fortunes, we can discuss this in DM.

Hey you lovely people! Since I got myself a shiny dedi over the weekend (ironically not with a BF discount), I now have a few VPS that I no longer need and wanted to offer them here rather than at OGF. Mostly because there's a better chance it'll go to someone who won't abuse it.

Cost

• Technically free, but next time you see someone in need, help them out; perhaps you could give a homeless guy a few bucks or buy them a coffee, or donate a small sum to your favourite charity, give something to your local food bank or clothes bank, whatever, just be nice to someone
• Pushups are not a valid form of payment for these servers

The following severs are available:

AdvinServers (Astro Special) - $11.99 /m

renewal due 18 December 2022

Randomized CPU (8 vCores) (Ryzen 9 5950X fair share)
32GB DDR4 ECC Memory
250GB NVMe/SATA SSD
8TB Bandwidth (1 Gbps)
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Advanced DDoS Mitigation
$11.99/month
GB5 score: 5659
https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/102078/#Comment_102078

HostCram KVM-3C - $21 Quarterly

renewal 26 December 2022

3 vCPU Core (i9-11900K) (fair share)
3 GB DDR4 RAM (Dedicated)
70 GB NVMe SSD Storage
3 TB INAP Bandwidth @ 1 Gbps Port
1 Dedicated IPv4
$21 Quarterly / $84 Yearly (Recurring)
Note that this is NOT the Black Friday offer - it's a bit more expensive, but has more SSD
Also note that you have to cancel at least 5 days before renewal
GB5 score: 4190
Location: Dallas, TX
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/179962/killer-core-kvm-3c-21-quarterly-windows-4g-10-month-hostcram-llc-i9-11900k-in-dallas-tx/p1

Server Factory AMD RYZEN™ S - € 39,50 /6m

renewal 29 December 2022

CPU: 1 Core / 2 Threads (Ryzen 9 5950X, 2 dedicated threads)
RAM: 8 GB
STORAGE: 100 GB
UPLINK: 1 Gbit/s
UNMETERED INCOMING TRAFFIC
Outgoing Traffic: 8 TB per month
IPv4: 1
IPv6: /64 Subnet
79,00 € 39,50 € / semi-annually exclusive VAT, if you are from the EU, VAT applies
GB5 score: 1565
Location: Dronten, NL
https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/3957/50-off-ryzen-epyc-vds-nl-alipay-btc-cc-pp-unmetered-incoming-traffic/p1

Rules

• Only open to LES members whose account is older than 3 months and at least 10 non-spammy posts
• Please only claim a server if you are genuinely interested in continuing the service and want to give it a couple of weeks to test, or if you missed out on the original offer
• If you just want something to abuse for a couple of weeks, please don't bid. If you just want to scalp it, definitely do not bid. All these providers are excellent, and they deserve more respect
• I have contacted @Advin, @mxmla and @Shakib respectively for permission to do a transfer
• Maximum 1 win per person
• You have until Wednesday 30 November 23:59 UTC to state your interest
• Winners will be determined using @yoursunny style beacon rather than first come, first served
• If you win, you need to have an account registered with the provider, and PM your email address with 24 hours so that I can raise a ticket for the transfer

How to claim

• Post ONE of the following messages in this thread
  # I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ LUCKY DIP
  # I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ ADVIN
  # I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ HOSTCRAM
  # I LOVE FREE SERVERS ❤️ SERVER FACTORY

Determining the winner

• I'll be getting a source of randomness from the first beacon after Thursday 1 December 00:00 UTC (unix time 1641945600), will post further details once I've stolen it from @yoursunny figured out how to get it right
• It seems the NIST beacon is still broken, it'll take longer for me to work out which round of the CF beacon I'll need, but I'll update before the deadline, once I've figured it out
• I'll be using this command line to choose the winner: BEACON=xxxxxxx ; for i in user1 user2 user3 user4 user5 ; do echo -n "$i-$BEACON" | sha1sum - |sed -e "s/-/$i/" ; done| sort (but substituting xxxxx and user1 etc) and using the top results
• I will choose the top 3 sorted results
• From these, where they have indicated a preference, the earliest in the sorted results will win their preferred server
• Anyone in the first 3 sorted results who expressed lucky dip will be given a server from those remaining, in the order Advin, HostCram, Server Factory
• If there are still unallocated servers (because multiple people had a preference for the same machines), there will be additional rounds for each unallocated server
• For each server, all those who expressed a preference for it, along with an equal number of people from the lucky dip pool, will enter a raffle and the top result after sorting using the string "$i-$srv-$BEACON" followed by SHA1 will win, where srv will be adv, hc or sf
• The lucky dip candidates will be taken from the sorted results in the first round in order, and will only be entered into one lucky dip round, unless there aren't enough, in which case the list will wrap around
• I hope to announce the results around noon Thursday 1 December 12:00 UTC, assuming I haven't made it so complicated for myself that I completely fail
• Anyone who hasn't PM'd me within 24 hours will forfeit the server, and I'll choose the next lucky dip winner from the sorted list

Why is it so complicated?

Choose one:

• Beats me
• I didn't want to do any work this morning, so I made up these stupid rules instead
• I wanted to make sure that people who specifically wanted one of the servers had a reasonable chance of getting it
• I wanted to make sure that people who chose lucky dip also had similar odds of winning as those who chose a particular server

I'm looking for at least 3 reputable persons on the forum (but preferrably not providers for obvious reasons of competition at this point) who would test the service. Reputable should be people with at least 1 year of existence here or on OGF. At least 50 non-spammy comments would be nice.

This service will be "free" for AT LEAST A MONTH OR MORE (but obviously I need feedback as to whether it's stable or one experiences any quirks - so that's the catch). As a great thank you if issues are found, I'd really try to extend that time as a thank you to the testers. There might be times where the panel could go down when I do updates but that does not affect the SFTP access in any way.

If all goes well, I want to develop a second phase which will add some super cool features (since right now it's just SFTP access).

Anyways, enough talking, here's what you get:

100 GB SFTP Storage (how boring) but...
1. This 100 GB of SFTP is on RAID 1 and is located in Canada (250 mbit unlimited: OVH).
2. The storage is NEVER OVERSOLD (which hopefully means access times should rarely if ever be affected by oversold storage). At this point, looking at a max of 20 users if it's 100 GB blocks, less if it's portioned in bigger blocks.
3. The 100 GB is replicated to another dedicated server (which also is on RAID 1) in a different geographical region (in this case London - OVH) periodically (more details can be provided once you're selected to test) and will be adjusted based on feedback and testing.
4. A custom built "technical" storage panel that doesn't just show you just disk space. I'm nearly sure you've never seen ANYTHING like this (even though it's not necessarily aesthetically pleasing) but when I say ANYTHING - let's just say you literally know what's going on with the server and storage details. Hint: IO WAIT, TEMP, UPTIME AND DEEPER DETAILS. This is a super important part that I hope makes the service worth the planned price (if it ever reaches public release).
5. And most importantly, "you can sleep good at night" since you don't have to guess what's going on about your storage, it's stored in 2 different geographical reasons and you in theory have access to both servers in the rare event one of the servers go down (both accessible via SFTP with the same login details).

This package when I did the numbers would be around $4.50 a month (assuming 50 cents out of this goes to the payment gateway) if I ever reach the point of releasing to the public.

I understand this is totally expensive but you'll get more details as I said other than "cloud" storage where you just totally rely on the word of the company. I hope the value of having to not worry while sleeping would be worth it?

I have personal interest in this project since I plan to also be my own "customer" - I really want to sleep better at night knowing my data is safe from loss (to a higher degree). This in theory is still not considered a backup but I think it's more robust than guessing and hoping people are doing your storage right for you.

So please PM if you're interested (it's a manual set up and would require you to register an account at ONDDNS.com since the panel uses my own SSO technology).

Thanks again at least for reading even if you don't decide to PM in.

Additional rules: You agree to not screenshot, share further details with others at this point until launch IF all goes well - launch would be delayed by a few months well IF I get to 2nd phase of development.

Above page is self explanatory, 1 application limit applies. Valid for 2 more days
Other than a happy paying customer, I have nothing to do with them.

I was bored so I looked at this meme provider and discovered that they have a free VPS offering.
After ordering, it's delivered in 29 minutes.
There's only an IP address and root password, with no control panel access.
It's uncertain whether the garden is being watched.

YABS: link to YABS archive
ping: link to ping.pe result

VPS FluxNode
4 Core
8 GB RAM
220 GB SSD NVME (240/270 MB/s I/O)
1 GBps network port
1 Dedicated IPv4
Linux ISO or Custom ISO
First 7 days free after 7 days it s 10 euro/month
Delivery in maximum 6 hours
Order link: https://panel.ihostart.com/index.php?rp=/store/vps-fluxnode