Hetzner Bare Metal Servers Available At MetalVPS!

Not_Oles · November 2023

Friendly greetings! 🌎🌍

Hetzner Bare Metal Servers Available At MetalVPS

Curium, a MetalVPS bare metal server at Hetzner, has become available. If you are interested in playing with Curium, or with a part of Curium (e.g., a VPS or a container), please let @Not_Oles know immediately!

Curium might be cancelled in a day or maybe in two days if nobody is interested. If you have your own Hetzner account and you want to take Curium as a transfer, that might be possible. Please note that Hetzner recently seems to have raised by a couple of Euros the minimum auction fixed price for servers like Curium.

Curium presently is running Debian 12, but could be reinstalled any way you like. You could do the reinstall yourself, if you wish.

Curium's supercalifragilistically excellent Low End specifications and price paid to Hetzner are shown below!

Any other Hetzner server also could be arranged.

Warnings!

Clueless™ administrator @Not_Oles has no "technical background" and only "limited technical skills. . . ." 😀 @Not_Oles frequently messes up! 😱
@Not_Oles is Especially Clueless™ about Debian, Fedora, and all other OSes. 🤗
Sometimes trusted MetalVPSians might or might not get sudo. 🙈🙉🙊
MetalVPS has no billing panel and no server control panel. It's all command line via ssh 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! 🤑
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 server 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 Customized BIGburgers might be available with your choice of toppings! 🍔

Terms Of Service

Be awesome!
White Hat only!
MetalVPS is not for business use!
MetalVPS is intended for education and fun!
100% open source software only!
Hetzner TOS also applies!

Equipment Cost And Ownership

Rent paid to Hetzner for Curium is €26.70 per month (VAT inapplicable outside of the EU). That's approximately US$28.34 per month.

Pricing

Please make an offer.
MetalVPS might give free accounts to those in need. So, please don't hesitate to ask.

Payment

Payment methods are available in US dollars via Zelle or via Paypal (and maybe also via Stripe). Maybe we could figure out an additional payment method if there is some other way you want to pay.
No payment is due until your service is set up and you are 100% satisfied.

How To Sign Up

Please post here in this thread. Please include your ed25519 ssh public key.

More About MetalVPS!

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 Hetzner, Low End Spirit, Low End Talk, Low End Box, NodeSeek, or FreeVPS.org. 👨‍💻

What People Are Saying

About MetalVPS

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Thanks!

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

yoursunny · November 2023

@Not_Oles said:
* MetalVPS might give free accounts to those in need. So, please don't hesitate to ask.

@Otus9051 free dedi

Not_Oles · November 2023

@yoursunny said:

@Not_Oles said:
* MetalVPS might give free accounts to those in need. So, please don't hesitate to ask.

@Otus9051 free dedi

He asked me several days ago, when this server and my other servers were busy, so I had to say no. Well, right now there might be a day or two of availability.

Otus9051 · November 2023

@yoursunny said:

@Not_Oles said:
* MetalVPS might give free accounts to those in need. So, please don't hesitate to ask.

@Otus9051 free dedi

yay

Not_Oles · November 2023

Okay, I pushed the cancel button on Curium. She will be idling until late in the business day Falkenstein time on November 9, about two days from now.

More Hetzner servers can happen in just a few minutes after ordering at any time. Thanks to Hetzner for being so dependable and so well organized!

Not_Oles · November 2023

@Not_Oles said: I pushed the cancel button on Curium

Haha, there is a button to retract the cancellation. After taking a look around, I retracted Curium's cancellation. What a lovely server she is! 🤩

Jab · November 2023

but can you Cancel the Cancel of the Cancel!?

Not_Oles · November 2023

You know the price comparison website camelcamelcamel? I mean, you know, it's all about CamelCase, right? So now we have CancelCase, or maybe CancelCancelCancel. How about CancelUncancelCancel?

In another, parallel universe I could cancel the cancel of the cancel. However, in the Hetzner universe, I do have the freedom to cancel, uncancel, and then recancel. Or at least I think I could do that. Never tried. Yet.

FrankZ · November 2023

@Not_Oles said: In another, parallel universe I could cancel the cancel of the cancel. However, in the Hetzner universe, I do have the freedom to cancel, uncancel, and then recancel. Or at least I think I could do that. Never tried. Yet.

Schrödinger's cat ?

Not_Oles · November 2023

@FrankZ said: Schrödinger's cat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger's_cat

I had to look this up. The cancellation camel race might not be quite up to the level of Schroedinger. However, if we consider a box containing Hetzner's profits together with all the words of all the people saying Hetzner prices are impossibly low, we arrive at a Universe where only Virmach can understand.

Otus9051 · November 2023

@FrankZ said:

@Not_Oles said: In another, parallel universe I could cancel the cancel of the cancel. However, in the Hetzner universe, I do have the freedom to cancel, uncancel, and then recancel. Or at least I think I could do that. Never tried. Yet.

Schrödinger's cat ?

Schrödingers Cancellation

Not_Oles · November 2023

A funny thing happened on the way to the forum!

Finally, a 🇺🇸🗽US 🗽🇺🇸 Provider beat [Redacted's] pricing!!! MetalVPS has a new 🇺🇸🗽US 🗽🇺🇸 server!!!

As a joke, the winning US Provider made me promise to discontinue rubbing [Redacted's] awesome pricing and awesome profits into the faces of all the US providers. I was willing to promise only because I myself imagined that my constant massaging about [Redacted's] pricing + profits already might have reached the congestion point on the humor link! Luckily I only promised to stop for one year!

The new US server's login credentials showed up on poor Curium's last possible cancellation day of her current monthly period. So I was just barely able to Recancel the Uncanceled Cancel before Curium's next period begins a few hours from now. . . .

Snif! 😢 Losing a beautiful server like Curium really hurts! Even when I finally got a new US server! Even though I am sending Curium off hopefully to grant another Low Ender a wonderful opportunity to have as much fun with her as I enjoyed! 😭 Bye, sweet Curium! 💖 Fare thee well! 💖

Fortunately, MetalVPS still has two servers with [Redacted] and still could get more at any time. Thanks to awesome [Redacted] for awesome service and awesome pricing!!! Thanks to the awesome 🇺🇸🗽US 🗽🇺🇸 Provider who beat [Redacted!!!]

Not_Oles · November 2023

Somebody asked me about E-2276G at [Redacted.] So I picked one up. The price was higher than the minimum auction fixed price, but I do not know how much higher. Do I remember right that the single core E-2276G Geekbench score was very high? Delivery time was 6 minutes. If somebody wants to use this server, we might be able to make arrangements.

Not_Oles · November 2023

Wow! smartctl -a shows 6% and 4% for the percentage used on the new server's NVMe drives! They are almost new! It's not always that way! She has been named Polonium.

Hetzner Bare Metal Servers Available At MetalVPS!