Free Crunchbits Bare Metal Server! -- "The Best Deal In Town!"
Friendly greetings! 🌎🌍
Everyone's best friend and favorite Low End Provider, Crunchbits, granted MetalVPS Crunchy, a wonderful US 🇺🇸 dedicated server, free until November 8, 2024!
Free Offer
Usually I, @Not_Oles, have several bare metal servers. Typically I don't really use more than one bare metal server at any one time. Also, I put my long running services on VPSes. So, almost always, I have excess bare metal server capacity. It seems like a good idea to offer this excess bare metal capacity to our LES Community.
I started FreeVPS.org to give excess bare metal capacity to our Community in the form of free VPSes. Now, with Crunchy, I may be sharing an entire bare metal server with just one Community member. It also is possible that Crunchy might be shared among several Community members plus me. We will have to see what happens here in this thread. As of this writing, nobody else but me is using Crunchy.
If you want to figure out whether you could do what you want to do on Crunchy, please read the Warnings and the Terms of Service shown below.
How to Sign Up also is covered below, along with Pricing (Crunchy is free!), Support, and FAQ.
The Boss at Crunchbits said that MetalVPS is "literally the best deal in town!" Thanks to the Boss for his kind words and for Crunchy!
Best wishes! 🌎🌍
Tom
Crunchy Specs
- CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1245 v5 @ 3.50GHz
- iGPU VPS passthrough possible, but not yet implemented
- Hardware Cores: 4
- Hardware Threads: 8
- RAM: 64 GB DDR4 ECC
- Disk: 4 x 2 TB SSD RAID 10 (3.7 TB available)
- IP Addresses: 1 x IPv4/32; 1 x IPv6/128; 1 x IPv6/64; and 1 x IPv6/48 (HE TunnelBroker.net)
- Bandwidth: 1 Gbps shared, unlimited, fair use
- Location: Crunchbits, Liberty Lake, WA, USA 🇺🇸
- Today's OS: 22.04.3 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)
- Current Term Expires: November 8, 2024
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 you install whatever you want. 🆕
Sometimes trusted MetalVPSians might or might not get sudo, 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! 🤑
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! Our server might blow up! 💥 At any random second @Not_Oles or maybe you might reinstall the Node! 😸
Other MetalVPSians might see 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, both on MetalVPS and for connecting to MetalVPS!
- No Service Level Agreement (SLA)!
- Crunchbits TOS also applies!
Pricing
Crunchy is free until November 8, 2024.
Additional rented servers might need payment.
How To Sign Up
Please post here in this thread.
Please include
your ed25519 ssh public key;
links to your website, Github or other repo, other online profiles, etc.; and
your use case for Crunchy.
Please feel free to include additional items in support of your sign up request.
Support
Please post all new MetalVPS account requests and all support requests, comments, and feedback here in this thread. Please also post tutorials explaining your Crunchy accomplishments here in this thread or on their own, new LES threads.
LES PMs (personal messages) can be sent to @Not_Oles about items which need privacy.
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 Crunchbits, Hetzner, Low End Spirit, Low End Talk, Low End Box, NodeSeek, or FreeVPS.org. 👨💻
FAQ
- How did @Not_Oles get a free server from Crunchbits?
- Are Custom ISOs and BSD supported for @Not_Oles at Crunchbits?
What People Are Saying
- About MetalVPS
"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 Crunchbits for the wonderful Crunchy server! Even more thanks to Crunchbits for caring about every member of our wonderful Low End Community!
Tom gets a lot of help from the friendly MetalVPSians and from many other friends. Thanks to each and every one!
Edit History
Originally posted -- January 4, 2024
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Comments
hi Not_Oles,
May I have a shell for this server in a short period.
I always only use asia/US west network .I would like to learn much network information through this shell.
Crunchbits provide great vps plans but I haven't got it yet.
ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIJkLa8m2eiRzgA6v0xFhHUsOzsucEAiZNrTsuWbSKRwg nightcat
github.com/cnjax/
Thank you . Best regards
Thanks for offering.
Hi @nightcat! Thanks for applying for a MetalVPS account! Please give me some time to consider your application.
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Is that a server with GPU?
If so,it Is Amazing!
May I get an account.
It is oportunity to learn more things
Hi @subenhon!
Thanks for your comment!
Yesterday I went back to re-read one of your posts in a previous MetalVPS thread -- the post where you first got unprivileged LXC containers going. I was trying to do that again. It has been almost a year, and I had forgotten! I worked through it by myself, and then I went to compare with what you had done.
Crunchy seems to have a VGA display card and also an integrated GPU built into the E3-1245 processor. Crunchbits told me, if I understood right, that the integrated GPU processor will work with VPSes. But I don't yet know how to do that. So there is not a recent GPU card. I can see
If you still want a shell account, it's definitely possible. But please think about the fact that, here, we are considering possibly giving the entire server to just one person. Do you have a use for the entire server?
Could you please give me your ssh key again?
Best wishes!
Tom
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAICVtMvuzbWxXbMRC/OuqbWaGGGhAxdXoIlmmSsl6fE8Q subenhon
It is great for having the entire server if possible.
I just use the server for learning and tesing purpose, It is ok to give it to others if someone needs it more
Thanks for the offer, however, I currently have no use-case for Crunchy, so I'll pass.
youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
Sending server IP addresses by PM.
Have fun! Please do whatever you want. You don't have to ask in advance. Don't worry about breaking the server -- it's super easy to reinstall. Maybe we will add someone else. Or maybe not! Any questions, problems, suggestions, progress reports, please just let us know by posting here. Thanks very much!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
@Not_Oles is BGP w Crunchy possible yet?
youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
Hi! Sorry, I'm not up on the exact current status of BGP at Crunchbits. I think you might need to ask Crunchbits. If you do ask, please let us know what they say by posting here. Best! Tom
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
@subenhon Sorry!!!!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
HI, i only signup to this froums just for your offer.
I'm web programmer and Linux lover, get happy if you drops me one.
Check me out: https://github.com/ettige?tab=repositories
Edit: forgot to pass my public ssh key
ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAICpVcGJJ1VSXAHRfqfaimuhI5rkt5R1ruNAQFV1PGb6G strong@syStrong
@crunchbits bgp please
youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
Hi @ettige!
Congrats on signing up here at LES! There are a lot of great guys here who know a lot and who will help you a lot.
I took a look at your Github and at your Vercel App. Looks like you are getting a great start on web design and web programming!
There is only one server available in this offer. So it's not like I can give one to you and another to someone else. Maybe we could put several people on the one server. We will see what happens.
What is your use case for Crunchy?
Best wishes! And, again, welcome to LES!
Tom
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Thank you so much @Not_Oles , Tom! I'm thrilled to be part of LES. Your encouragement means a lot. I'm currently diving into web design and programming, and I appreciate your offer regarding Crunchy. My main use case involves Docker, Node.js, and Nginx, ensuring seamless downloads and performance. Looking forward to the journey here! Best wishes to you too!
Hi @ettige!
The English skill is amazing for someone who might not be a native English speaker! Did you get some help writing this, or did you write it by yourself?
Best!
Tom
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Hello Everyone!
Root access to Crunchy has been given to @subenhon because, in previous MetalVPS threads, he has shared and discussed LXC command line code using features like Namespaces and Access Control Lists.
I am confident that @subenhon's use of Crunchy will enable more code learning and more code sharing!
I expect that MetalVPS will continue sharing bare metal servers. I look forward to making more servers available!
Thanks to everyone who asked for Crunchy! Thanks to @crunchbits for this wonderful server!
Best wishes!
Tom
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Hi, Again @Not_Oles.
Yes, I,m Not speaker so I need to always get some help to write things. Just to make sure that my message is clear and grammatically correct.
I found that offer is already given to someone else, maybe I get one in future offers.
I am grateful for your encouragement. Thank you!
Free until my birthday. Neat!
@subenhon Wanna reboot sometime before too long when you feel like it? Or I can do it if you want. Thanks!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
@Not_Oles You can reboot today.
Thanks!
Done! Have fun!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Hello!
I am back after a few months. When I logged in to my account I suddenly found this post.
It's awesome to know that you got a free Crunchbits server until November.
I have a question. Does this server supports KVM?
Thanks!
Hi @subenhon!
How is everything going?
Best!
Tom
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
@subenhon ping
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
hi @Not_Oles , Maybe you already know me.
I don't know what lxc is so I learned to use lxc container.
Does this server support lxc container?
ssh public keys: ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIL3t/tv6sW9TJdowG2krXNsUJalsIfMSQaITl+NNZO74 eddsa-key-20240202
github.com/ajiBal
Thank You.
Hi @subenhon!
Happy Saturday @subenhon! How's everything?
How should the server celebrate Lunar New Year? Maybe a Node OS wipe and reinstall would be a good way to celebrate?
Thanks and best wishes!
Tom
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
@Not_Oles
Hi Tom,sorry for the late reply.
The server works fine, and I running a Windows10 Guest using qemu-kvm.
In order to get a better performace for the Windows10 Guest , I install virtio-driver in the Windows10 Guest ,then add "-vga virtio -net nic,model=virtio " to the Windows10 Guest start up command line.
The Windows10 Guest working fine at the beggining, but after a while it crash.
It seems than the Windows10 Guest does not work stable with the virtio-driver.
@Not_Oles
Lunar New Year,We are more accustomed to calling it the Spring Festival,which is "春节" in chinese
The spring festival is nearby,We go back to the hometown , reunite with family, and gather around a holiday meal on the Spring Festival
s Eve, we call it "吃年夜饭". Maybe we should let the server go back to hist hometown and "吃年夜饭" with his family for celebrate Lunar New Year =) ,hahaha just kidding. The server works fine now ,we don
t need to reinstall it.Hi @subenhon!
Here is what I see when I login.
What is our plan for updates and reboots?
Should we add a few more users or keep everything as it is?
I am thinking about installing a few things on the Node. For example a graphical desktop. Also a web server. I don't think either of these would cause any problem for you. Is this okay?
Hope we enjoy the Year of the Dragon here on Crunchy! In New York City there is a big parade for the 春节!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!