MetalVPS Server In Germany Seeks VPSes, chroots, and Shell Accounts for Maximum Low End Fun!
Friendly greetings! 🌎🌍
Radium, a MetalVPS dedicated server in Germany 🇩🇪, was reinstalled last night with Debian 12.
Do you want anything from a small KVM NAT VPS up to the entire server? Or something in between?
Best wishes! 🌎🌍
Tom
Server Specs
Yabs
root@radium ~ # curl -sL yabs.sh | bash
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# Yet-Another-Bench-Script #
# v2024-03-05 #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
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Tue Apr 2 08:23:02 AM CEST 2024
Basic System Information:
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Uptime : 0 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes
Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1275 v5 @ 3.60GHz
CPU cores : 8 @ 800.000 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 62.6 GiB
Swap : 32.0 GiB
Disk : 904.5 GiB << RAID 0 YOLO -- There also is a 100GB /altroot primary partition.
Distro : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel : 6.1.0-18-amd64
VM Type : NONE
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ✔ Online
IPv6 Network Information:
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ISP : [Redacted] Online GmbH
ASN : AS24940 [Redacted] Online GmbH
Location : Falkenstein, Saxony (SN)
Country : Germany
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/md3):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
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Read | 418.37 MB/s (104.5k) | 1.13 GB/s (17.7k)
Write | 419.47 MB/s (104.8k) | 1.14 GB/s (17.8k)
Total | 837.85 MB/s (209.4k) | 2.27 GB/s (35.5k)
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Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 1.13 GB/s (2.2k) | 1.27 GB/s (1.2k)
Write | 1.19 GB/s (2.3k) | 1.36 GB/s (1.3k)
Total | 2.32 GB/s (4.5k) | 2.64 GB/s (2.5k)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
----- | ----- | ---- | ---- | ----
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 921 Mbits/sec | 933 Mbits/sec | 23.5 ms
Eranium | Amsterdam, NL (10G) | 928 Mbits/sec | 935 Mbits/sec | 10.9 ms
Telia | Helsinki, FI (10G) | 922 Mbits/sec | 918 Mbits/sec | 35.4 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 877 Mbits/sec | 518 Mbits/sec | 89.6 ms
Leaseweb | Singapore, SG (10G) | 586 Mbits/sec | 592 Mbits/sec | --
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 805 Mbits/sec | 318 Mbits/sec | 152 ms
Leaseweb | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 858 Mbits/sec | 623 Mbits/sec | 94.4 ms
Edgoo | Sao Paulo, BR (1G) | 798 Mbits/sec | 222 Mbits/sec | 161 ms
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
----- | ----- | ---- | ---- | ----
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 908 Mbits/sec | 919 Mbits/sec | 23.4 ms
Eranium | Amsterdam, NL (10G) | 916 Mbits/sec | 922 Mbits/sec | 10.8 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 867 Mbits/sec | 462 Mbits/sec | 89.6 ms
Leaseweb | Singapore, SG (10G) | busy | 633 Mbits/sec | 248 ms
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 794 Mbits/sec | 426 Mbits/sec | 152 ms
Leaseweb | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 849 Mbits/sec | 661 Mbits/sec | 94.4 ms
Edgoo | Sao Paulo, BR (1G) | 786 Mbits/sec | 209 Mbits/sec | 161 ms
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
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Single Core | 1470
Multi Core | 4914
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/5563528
YABS completed in 13 min 32 sec
root@radium ~ #
Warnings!
Forever Clueless™ administrator @Not_Oles has no "technical background" and only "limited technical skills. . . ." 😀 @Not_Oles frequently messes up! 😱
MetalVPS has no billing panel and no server control panel. There are no preinstalled VPSes or containers. It's traditional, command line terminal via ssh until @Not_Oles or you install whatever you want. 🆕 You can get a juicy KVM NAT VPS into which you can ssh and install whatever Open Source software you want. If you get a VPS, maybe you also can get a traditional shell account on Radium.
Sometimes trusted MetalVPSians might or might not get sudo on Radium, or KVM group membership, etc. 🙈🙉🙊
MetalVPS has no onboarding and no knowledge base. ♒︎
Account delivery might take awhile! 😴
Not for business use! Intended especially for computer learning and fun! 🤑
Occasional maintenance reboots are guaranteed! 🌺 VPSes in this offer can be set to restart automatically following reboot.
Please make your own redundant, offsite backups! It's easy to download or sync or clone your backup to a safe place. Please also check to make sure that you actually can restore from your backups! 🤦♂️
Please think of your MetalVPS account as ephemeral! Our server might blow up! 💥 At any random second @Not_Oles or maybe you might reinstall the Node! 😸 Or you or @Not_Oles might decide to cancel. 👹
Other MetalVPSians probably will see your name, your location, your account name, the processes you are running, and much other information. So, please do not put confidential information on the server. 🤔
Terms Of Service
- Be awesome! Be kind, gentle, friendly, positive, and polite!
- White Hat only!
- Not for business use!
- Intended for education and fun!
- Open source software only!
- No Service Level Agreement (SLA)!
- No refunds!
- Redacted TOS also applies!
Pricing and Payment
Please make an offer based on the amount of server resources you expect to use and the amount of profit you want for @Not_Oles.
Between $7 and $99 offers for requests in between $7 VPS and $99 full server.
Monthly or daily or hourly offers only. Nothing longer than monthly, please.
Minimum price offers like $1.01 will be considered. Free offers will be considered too.
Paypal payments may be sent to the email address on @Not_Oles' profile. Zelle and Stripe also might work.
How To Sign Up
If you can, please say hello to @Not_Oles in #metalvps on Libera.chat.
Please email @Not_Oles at the address on his LES profile. Please include:
your LES user name;
your use case for Radium and the resources you need;
your payment offer amount;
your ed25519 ssh public key;
link to your website;
link to your Github or other repo; and
links to other online profiles.
Please feel free to include additional items in your sign up request email.
Support
LES PMs (personal messages) can be sent to @Not_Oles about items which need privacy.
Email to the address on @Not_Oles' profile also works.
You can use #metalvps at Libera.chat.
Of course, you also can post here in this thread.
More About MetalVPS!
Providing awesome Low Enders with wonderfully fun VPSes and dedicated servers is the idea behind MetalVPS. Additionally, MetalVPS and @Not_Oles hope to promote community discussion of server related topics and Open Source software.
MetalVPS is an indie project of @Not_Oles a/k/a Tom Miller a/k/a the Clueless™ guy. 🥰
MetalVPS is not a project of Crunchbits, Hetzner, Low End Spirit, Low End Talk, Low End Box, NodeSeek, or FreeVPS.org. 👨💻
What People Are Saying
- About MetalVPS
". . . I sent a donation of $1.01, just because. Keep doing what you do."
"MetalVPS . . . seems to have endless servers."
"@Not_Oles . . . thank you for providing machine for me to help me finish all the tests."
"I really enjoyed MetalVPS . . . I hope more people can learn together using MetalVPS."
"The permanent free shell account of MetalVPS is very fun!" ("MetalVPS的永久免费shell账号挺好玩的")
"MetalVPS used to be a high end provider, but it's becoming a sorority now."
"fun stuff indeed, appreciating the comfortable computing experience!"
"Nice trial and results! Very interesting "
"Wow pretty nice ! Congrats excellent options thanks for being a part of the community"
"the terms seemed exceptionally fair"
"Kernel Linux 5.11 is now in much better shape for AMD 
"
"Yes, please. I’ll take that."
"it's really quite dedicated. not all dedicated are the same."
"MetalVPS-AX101 has a reasonable price"
"really need a testing ground badly now especially with dedicated core"
"I've been using this one from him. Highly recommend! His support is really amazing!"
"Grab it while the hotel still has vacant rooms."
- About Not_Oles
"@Not_Oles . . . is doing all kinds of interesting work and sharing it with others"
"@Not_Oles is really a funfull and helpful grandpa!!"
"Really, you're the best person I've known on the internet."
"It was a pleasure for me to collaborate with Tom, he really knows what he's doing "
"Thanks again to @Not_Oles for valiant testing."
"you've brought a smile on my face countless times "
"Good luck with your new project! 
Happy to have you around here!"
"I always love how you come up with new ideas Good luck, mate!
"May you continue to learn and inspire others."
"he is the sweetest guy in LES .."
"resplendent as the Sonoran Sun"
"every time I visit les and see that profile picture, it brightens up my day."
Thanks!
Thanks to @babywhale for bashvm!
MetalVPS also offers accounts on Crunchy, a US 🇺🇸 MetalVPS server from @crunchbits! Thanks to @crunchbits for wonderful Crunchy!
Tom a/k/a @Not_Oles gets a lot of help from the friendly MetalVPSians and from many other friends. Thanks to each and every one!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Comments
Things change quickly at MetalVPS!
Here I am, still trying to decide between a free Alpine shell account ( https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/5054/free-alpine-linux-shell-accounts/p1 ) and an expensive Slackware shell account ( https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/5085/expensive-slackware-linux-shell-accounts )!
https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/116163/#Comment_116163
I fear that I may have missed that boat!
"A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)
Thanks for the bump!
Yes, things change quickly!
I do miss both the Slackware and the Alpine!
We could bring one or the other or both back if folks are interested. 
Best!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Not too many people seem interested in this thread's offer, so it is hereby withdrawn.
For Low End LESbian fun, let's try auctioning this server for a month.
Please don't bid unless you are a well established LESbian for greater than one year with lots of posts and lots of thanks and it also is transparently obvious to all of us who you are IRL.
Minimum bid: $29.56 per month
Minimum bid increment: $1.00
Auction concludes Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 00:00 AM UTC.
BIN: $37.00
Above OP Terms of Service and Warnings still apply. E.g., no commercial use.
Renewal for additional months optional for both parties.
The winner can use the server with the existing Debian install, or I will install any standard, open source OS image provided in Redacted's installimage installer. Sorry, no Windows, no RDP, port 25 only by approved request. Sorry, no initial access to the Redacted server control panel, but access might be provided later.
@bikegremlin @FrankZ @Mason Please feel free to comment or to close this thrread if you see any issues at all. I looked at the LES rules and didn't notice anything explicitly applicable auctioning servers. I tried to take guidance from the server rules and the domain auction rules.
Hope everyone is enjoying the weekend!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
I like this VPS