Hi @FredLoveFreedom! Congrats on your new LES account! May we please defer thinking about your joining our Crunchy MetalVPS Neighbors until after you have been here at LES for a while? Meanwhile I look forward to enjoying your additional posts and comments. Best wishes! Tom
@Not_Oles said:
Hi @FredLoveFreedom! Congrats on your new LES account! May we please defer thinking about your joining our Crunchy MetalVPS Neighbors until after you have been here at LES for a while? Meanwhile I look forward to enjoying your additional posts and comments. Best wishes! Tom
Thank you very much for your answer. I think you can recommend a server purchase address of a similar configuration? I used to buy it with other providers before, and I didn't need a free server.
@Not_Oles said:
Hi @FredLoveFreedom! Congrats on your new LES account! May we please defer thinking about your joining our Crunchy MetalVPS Neighbors until after you have been here at LES for a while? Meanwhile I look forward to enjoying your additional posts and comments. Best wishes! Tom
Thank you very much for your answer. I think you can recommend a server purchase address of a similar configuration? I used to buy it with other providers before, and I didn't need a free server.
There are many great Providers here at LES. If they have stock available, you might be able to get exactly the same or a very similar server from @crunchbits. I wish you good luck with your server purchase!
@Not_Oles said:
Hi @FredLoveFreedom! Congrats on your new LES account! May we please defer thinking about your joining our Crunchy MetalVPS Neighbors until after you have been here at LES for a while? Meanwhile I look forward to enjoying your additional posts and comments. Best wishes! Tom
Thank you very much for your answer. I think you can recommend a server purchase address of a similar configuration? I used to buy it with other providers before, and I didn't need a free server.
There are many great Providers here at LES. If they have stock available, you might be able to get exactly the same or a very similar server from @crunchbits. I wish you good luck with your server purchase!
Am I eligible for a free VM here :P
Use case will probably be a big storage unit for some "stuff" I have been working on (say, Android ROMs, Minecraft World Backups, ISOs, maybe even my own iPXE server).
Or, If I have to pay, I need to check in with my bank if they finally unblocked international transactions for me.
@Otus9051 said:
Am I eligible for a free VM here :P
Use case will probably be a big storage unit for some "stuff" I have been working on (say, Android ROMs, Minecraft World Backups, ISOs, maybe even my own iPXE server).
Or, If I have to pay, I need to check in with my bank if they finally unblocked international transactions for me.
Everyone else has paid. It's not like the cost is very high. How about if you see what your bank says and let us know?
@Otus9051 said:
Am I eligible for a free VM here :P
Use case will probably be a big storage unit for some "stuff" I have been working on (say, Android ROMs, Minecraft World Backups, ISOs, maybe even my own iPXE server).
Or, If I have to pay, I need to check in with my bank if they finally unblocked international transactions for me.
Everyone else has paid. It's not like the cost is very high. How about if you see what your bank says and let us know?
Do you have a PayPal account, I think I can manage PayPal...
@Otus9051 said:
Am I eligible for a free VM here :P
Use case will probably be a big storage unit for some "stuff" I have been working on (say, Android ROMs, Minecraft World Backups, ISOs, maybe even my own iPXE server).
Or, If I have to pay, I need to check in with my bank if they finally unblocked international transactions for me.
Everyone else has paid. It's not like the cost is very high. How about if you see what your bank says and let us know?
Do you have a PayPal account, I think I can manage PayPal...
Please send me $1.01 via Paypal to the email address on my @Not_Oles LES profile. Thanks!
@Otus9051 said:
Am I eligible for a free VM here :P
Use case will probably be a big storage unit for some "stuff" I have been working on (say, Android ROMs, Minecraft World Backups, ISOs, maybe even my own iPXE server).
Or, If I have to pay, I need to check in with my bank if they finally unblocked international transactions for me.
Everyone else has paid. It's not like the cost is very high. How about if you see what your bank says and let us know?
Do you have a PayPal account, I think I can manage PayPal...
Please send me $1.01 via Paypal to the email address on my @Not_Oles LES profile. Thanks!
Can this be on hold till the next month? Just realised my credit card had expired :P
That's why folks you should answer when your bank calls, not always loan offers.
@Otus9051 said: Can this be on hold till the next month?
No problem to wait. Right now there are two VPSes left. If someone else requests a VPS, and pays for it, then we still have one spot left. If two people request, how should we handle it? Maybe it's unlikely that we would receive two requests, so maybe there's not much to worry about?
It depends on how dirty the money is to begin with. If it is relatively clean money to begin witth, then it's hard to think of the subject transaction sequence as "laundering."
@Otus9051 said: @Not_Oles seems as if cashapp is the only way right now, is there no way you can get it? You already have Zelle, get cashapp too at that point
But it isn't your cash app account which would be sending funds. The nominal fee is, hopefully, to assist with identity verification. So, as you can understand, I am sorry, but we probably need to pass on someone else sending funds.
@Otus9051 said: @Not_Oles seems as if cashapp is the only way right now, is there no way you can get it? You already have Zelle, get cashapp too at that point
But it isn't your cash app account which would be sending funds. The nominal fee is, hopefully, to assist with identity verification. So, as you can understand, I am sorry, but we probably need to pass on someone else sending funds.
But we all know Otus well, as he's the certified freeloader.
@Otus9051 said: @Not_Oles seems as if cashapp is the only way right now, is there no way you can get it? You already have Zelle, get cashapp too at that point
But it isn't your cash app account which would be sending funds. The nominal fee is, hopefully, to assist with identity verification. So, as you can understand, I am sorry, but we probably need to pass on someone else sending funds.
@Otus9051 said: @Not_Oles seems as if cashapp is the only way right now, is there no way you can get it? You already have Zelle, get cashapp too at that point
But it isn't your cash app account which would be sending funds. The nominal fee is, hopefully, to assist with identity verification. So, as you can understand, I am sorry, but we probably need to pass on someone else sending funds.
But we all know Otus well, as he's the certified freeloader.
That's my point, everyone knows me here very well, for over 2 years now I assume, and considering the fact that I did show interest in Crunchy since the first thread and then retracted my request due to not being able to use it at that moment, I hoped that I would have had the option to get it for free.
It's not even identity verification at that point, its data mining. I mean, what would you even do with my info?
I understand that you want the payment to "reduce abuse" but considering the fact that you still are getting paid and I indeed am supplying you with the invoice, you should already assume me authenticated. It's literally like using a middleman.
Anyhow, I'll have to wait until my card arrives, I have no choice, and if the offer goes away by then, there's nothing I can do.
@Otus9051 said: @Not_Oles seems as if cashapp is the only way right now, is there no way you can get it? You already have Zelle, get cashapp too at that point
But it isn't your cash app account which would be sending funds. The nominal fee is, hopefully, to assist with identity verification. So, as you can understand, I am sorry, but we probably need to pass on someone else sending funds.
But we all know Otus well, as he's the certified freeloader.
That's my point, everyone knows me here very well, for over 2 years now I assume, and considering the fact that I did show interest in Crunchy since the first thread and then retracted my request due to not being able to use it at that moment, I hoped that I would have had the option to get it for free.
It's not even identity verification at that point, its data mining. I mean, what would you even do with my info?
I understand that you want the payment to "reduce abuse" but considering the fact that you still are getting paid and I indeed am supplying you with the invoice, you should already assume me authenticated. It's literally like using a middleman.
Anyhow, I'll have to wait until my card arrives, I have no choice, and if the offer goes away by then, there's nothing I can do.
don't know what you are blabbering about for an essentially free service that doesn't concern you if you arent up for it.
@Otus9051 said: Anyhow, I'll have to wait until my card arrives, I have no choice, and if the offer goes away by then, there's nothing I can do.
Even after your card arrives, I have no interest in mining your data. We have many wonderful providers here at LES! I respectfully suggest, after your card arrives, you should buy from one of the other wonderful providers rather than from MetalVPS. Thanks and best wishes!
Everyone's best friend and favorite Low End Provider, Crunchbits, granted MetalVPSCrunchy, a wonderful US 🇺🇸 dedicated server, free until November 8, 2024!
$1.01 Crunchy VPS Until November 8, 2024!
Please see the Crunchy VPS Specifications shown below. Yabs and network-speed also are posted below.
In addition to your VPS, maybe you could get a traditional shell account on the Crunchy Node.
Please read the Limits, Warnings, and the Terms of Service shown below.
How to Sign Up also is covered below, along with Pricing, Support, and FAQ.
Providing awesome Low Enders with wonderful VPSes is a big part of the idea behind this offer. Additionally, MetalVPS and @Not_Oles hope to promote community discussion of server related topics. Thus, beyond the $1.01 payment, active participation in this thread's discussion also is required.
The Boss at Crunchbits said that MetalVPS is "literally the best deal in town!" Thanks to the Boss for his kind words and for wonderful Crunchy!
➡️ Please entirely skip responding to this offer if your account does not have significant, awesome post and comment history within our wonderful Low End communities. ⬅️
➡️ Please respond to this wonderful Crunchy VPS offer only if you really want to contribute actively to our discussions in this thread. ⬅️
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. 🆕 You get a juicy VPS into which you can ssh and install whatever Open Source software you want. Maybe you also can get a traditional shell account on Crunchy.
Sometimes trusted MetalVPSians might or might not get sudo on the Node, KVM group membership, etc. Note that @subenhon has Crunchy Node sudo. 🙈🙉🙊
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! 🌺 VPSes in this offer are 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 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 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!
Active participation in this thrread's discussion is required!
Open source software only, both on MetalVPS and for connecting to MetalVPS!
$1.01 one time until November 8, 2024. This de minimus payment hopefully will discourage abuse.
Paypal payments may be sent to the email address on @Not_Oles' profile. Zelle and Stripe also might work.
Active participation in this thread's server related discussions also is required.
How To Sign Up
Please post here in this thread.
Please include
your ed25519 ssh public key;
link to your website;
links to your Github or other repo, other online profiles, etc.; and
your use case for Crunchy.
Please feel free to include additional items in 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. 🥰
Thanks to Crunchbits for the wonderful Crunchy server! Even more thanks to Crunchbits for caring about every member of our wonderful Low End Community!
4GB of RAM is just perfect to host a small educational Docker node! Finally getting around to learning how to use it thanks to @crunchbits and @Not_Oles
Took a quick look inside Crunchy. Seems okay. Two slots left.
root@crunchy:~# date
Wed Mar 27 05:18:29 AM UTC 2024
root@crunchy:~# uptime
05:18:38 up 14 days, 13:40, 3 users, load average: 0.94, 0.73, 0.79
root@crunchy:~# free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 62Gi 23Gi 3.3Gi 2.0Mi 35Gi 38Gi
Swap: 4.0Gi 269Mi 3.7Gi
root@crunchy:~# df -h .
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg0-root 3.7T 228G 3.3T 7% /
root@crunchy:~# vnstat -i enp1s0f1
Database updated: 2024-03-27 05:15:00
enp1s0f1 since 2024-03-04
rx: 298.05 GiB tx: 271.45 GiB total: 569.50 GiB
monthly
rx | tx | total | avg. rate
------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
2024-03 298.05 GiB | 271.45 GiB | 569.50 GiB | 2.16 Mbit/s
------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
estimated 352.40 GiB | 320.96 GiB | 673.36 GiB |
daily
rx | tx | total | avg. rate
------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
yesterday 1.28 GiB | 683.96 MiB | 1.94 GiB | 193.37 kbit/s
today 7.94 GiB | 11.91 GiB | 19.85 GiB | 9.02 Mbit/s
------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
estimated 36.27 GiB | 54.45 GiB | 90.72 GiB |
root@crunchy:~# cd bashvm
root@crunchy:~/bashvm# bash bashvm.sh
========================== Main Menu ==========================
1. Virtual Machines 2. Storage Pools 3. Networks
4. Snapshots 5. Edit Properties 6. Firewall Settings
7. Port Forwarding 8. VNC / Console Access 9. System Monitor
q. Exit
Enter your choice: 1
==================== Manage Virtual Machine ====================
s. Show all virtual machines 1. Show more details of a VM
2. Start a VM 3. Reboot a VM
4. Shutdown a VM (graceful) 5. Shutdown a VM (force)
6. Enable autostart of a VM 7. Disable autostart of a VM
8. Create a new / existing VM 9. Undefine a VM
10. Create a new VM (Automated) 11. Console into a VM
12. Change resources of a VM 13. Delete a VM
q. Back to main menu
Enter your choice: s
Id Name State
--------------------------------
1 vm101-crunchy running
2 vm103-crunchy running
3 vm102-crunchy running
4 vm100-crunchy running
6 vm104-crunchy running
8 vm105-crunchy running
10 vm106-crunchy running
12 vm107-crunchy running
- vm1-crunchy shut off
- vm2-crunchy shut off
Comments
Hi @FredLoveFreedom! Congrats on your new LES account! May we please defer thinking about your joining our Crunchy MetalVPS Neighbors until after you have been here at LES for a while? Meanwhile I look forward to enjoying your additional posts and comments. Best wishes! Tom
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Thank you very much for your answer. I think you can recommend a server purchase address of a similar configuration? I used to buy it with other providers before, and I didn't need a free server.
There are many great Providers here at LES. If they have stock available, you might be able to get exactly the same or a very similar server from @crunchbits. I wish you good luck with your server purchase!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Thank You.
Am I eligible for a free VM here :P
Use case will probably be a big storage unit for some "stuff" I have been working on (say, Android ROMs, Minecraft World Backups, ISOs, maybe even my own iPXE server).
Or, If I have to pay, I need to check in with my bank if they finally unblocked international transactions for me.
youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
Still two places available, one of which is spoken for, but not paid yet.
Thanks to @crunchbits for wonderful Crunchy!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Everyone else has paid. It's not like the cost is very high. How about if you see what your bank says and let us know?
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Do you have a PayPal account, I think I can manage PayPal...
youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
Please send me $1.01 via Paypal to the email address on my @Not_Oles LES profile. Thanks!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Can this be on hold till the next month? Just realised my credit card had expired :P
That's why folks you should answer when your bank calls, not always loan offers.
youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
@Not_Oles I have CashApp at hand (friend) would that work?
youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
No problem to wait. Right now there are two VPSes left. If someone else requests a VPS, and pays for it, then we still have one spot left. If two people request, how should we handle it? Maybe it's unlikely that we would receive two requests, so maybe there's not much to worry about?
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Great that you have friends with cash! Unfortunately, not set up at this end. . . .
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Otus sends someone $1.01 on CashApp.
Someone sends MetalVPS $1.01 on PayPal and rakes in $0.03 of credit card rewards.
Would this be money laundering?
HostBrr aff best VPS; VirmAche aff worst VPS.
Unable to push-up due to shoulder injury 😣
Thanks to @crunchbits for wonderful Crunchy!
At least one more spot available!
It depends on how dirty the money is to begin with. If it is relatively clean money to begin witth, then it's hard to think of the subject transaction sequence as "laundering."
Speaking of laundry, I heard that the ancient Romans used to launder their clothes in urine. The ammonia in the urine functions as a detergent. Here is a secondary source: https://www.countrylife.co.uk/comment-opinion/curious-questions-why-did-people-used-to-wash-clothes-in-urine-217861.
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Money Laundering... or extra profit? (cue vsauce theme)
youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
@Not_Oles seems as if cashapp is the only way right now, is there no way you can get it? You already have Zelle, get cashapp too at that point
youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
But it isn't your cash app account which would be sending funds. The nominal fee is, hopefully, to assist with identity verification. So, as you can understand, I am sorry, but we probably need to pass on someone else sending funds.
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
But we all know Otus well, as he's the certified freeloader.
HostBrr aff best VPS; VirmAche aff worst VPS.
Unable to push-up due to shoulder injury 😣
Well then, hope my card gets in on time.
youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
That's my point, everyone knows me here very well, for over 2 years now I assume, and considering the fact that I did show interest in Crunchy since the first thread and then retracted my request due to not being able to use it at that moment, I hoped that I would have had the option to get it for free.
It's not even identity verification at that point, its data mining. I mean, what would you even do with my info?
I understand that you want the payment to "reduce abuse" but considering the fact that you still are getting paid and I indeed am supplying you with the invoice, you should already assume me authenticated. It's literally like using a middleman.
Anyhow, I'll have to wait until my card arrives, I have no choice, and if the offer goes away by then, there's nothing I can do.
youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
don't know what you are blabbering about for an essentially free service that doesn't concern you if you arent up for it.
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
Even after your card arrives, I have no interest in mining your data. We have many wonderful providers here at LES! I respectfully suggest, after your card arrives, you should buy from one of the other wonderful providers rather than from MetalVPS. Thanks and best wishes!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Oles, am I crunchy-eligible?
datalix's aff #1 fan
Why not? Everybody is Crunchy Eligible. 🌎🌍
If you please post the requested materials, I will be delighted to take a look. Best wishes!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
MetalVPS bullies Otus.
HostBrr aff best VPS; VirmAche aff worst VPS.
Unable to push-up due to shoulder injury 😣
4GB of RAM is just perfect to host a small educational Docker node! Finally getting around to learning how to use it thanks to @crunchbits and @Not_Oles
Took a quick look inside Crunchy. Seems okay. Two slots left.
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Bashvm looks interesting too!
Thanks! Sometimes one can use virsh. But bashvm is great! It does a lot! Almost everything for NAT VMs. Thanks @babywhale!
Thanks @crunchbits for wonderful Crunchy!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!