In stasis until the shitposting stops/abates.
Than=compare;then=sequence:brought=bring;bought=buy:staffs=pile of sticks:informations/infos=no plural. It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away. || NVMe2G for life! until death (the end is nigh).
@tototo said:
Does Wikimedia send me a receipt? I received an email from them with the donation number (CNTCT-61013593) but no such thing as a PDF of the receipt.
Hi @tototo! Thanks for your message. The scans you sent look okay to me. I will ask the FreeVPS team to discuss your request, and I will get back to you. Thanks again! Best, Tom
@tototo said:
Does Wikimedia send me a receipt? I received an email from them with the donation number (CNTCT-61013593) but no such thing as a PDF of the receipt.
Hi @tototo! Thanks for your message. The scans you sent look okay to me. I will ask the FreeVPS team to discuss your request, and I will get back to you. Thanks again! Best, Tom
I'm surprised by your quick response. Anyway, thank you!
Well, my information is here:
Client No: 2116
Your ID: 363032769857
I would like Tokyo, but if there are no free slots, Germany is okay.
In either case, no spec upgrade is required. (I would like to use this as a monitoring for my website)
And thank you to the node providers and supporters.
❤ #ThanksGTHost, #Thankscrunchbits, #ThanksScaleBlade, #ThanksPieHasBeenEaten, and #ThanksWebHorizon
Also, should I also add #ThanksGenerousAnonymousDonor?
@tototo said:
Does Wikimedia send me a receipt? I received an email from them with the donation number (CNTCT-61013593) but no such thing as a PDF of the receipt.
Hi @tototo! Thanks for your message. The scans you sent look okay to me. I will ask the FreeVPS team to discuss your request, and I will get back to you. Thanks again! Best, Tom
I'm surprised by your quick response. Anyway, thank you!
Well, my information is here:
Client No: 2116
Your ID: 363032769857
I would like Tokyo, but if there are no free slots, Germany is okay.
In either case, no spec upgrade is required. (I would like to use this as a monitoring for my website)
And thank you to the node providers and supporters.
❤ #ThanksGTHost, #Thankscrunchbits, #ThanksScaleBlade, #ThanksPieHasBeenEaten, and #ThanksWebHorizon
Also, should I also add #ThanksGenerousAnonymousDonor?
@tototo said:
Does Wikimedia send me a receipt? I received an email from them with the donation number (CNTCT-61013593) but no such thing as a PDF of the receipt.
Hi @tototo! Thanks for your message. The scans you sent look okay to me. I will ask the FreeVPS team to discuss your request, and I will get back to you. Thanks again! Best, Tom
I'm surprised by your quick response. Anyway, thank you!
Well, my information is here:
Client No: 2116
Your ID: 363032769857
I would like Tokyo, but if there are no free slots, Germany is okay.
In either case, no spec upgrade is required. (I would like to use this as a monitoring for my website)
And thank you to the node providers and supporters.
❤ #ThanksGTHost, #Thankscrunchbits, #ThanksScaleBlade, #ThanksPieHasBeenEaten, and #ThanksWebHorizon
Also, should I also add #ThanksGenerousAnonymousDonor?
Deployed in Germany since Tokyo is donation only. Have fun!
@tototo said:
Does Wikimedia send me a receipt? I received an email from them with the donation number (CNTCT-61013593) but no such thing as a PDF of the receipt.
Hi @tototo! Thanks for your message. The scans you sent look okay to me. I will ask the FreeVPS team to discuss your request, and I will get back to you. Thanks again! Best, Tom
I'm surprised by your quick response. Anyway, thank you!
Well, my information is here:
Client No: 2116
Your ID: 363032769857
I would like Tokyo, but if there are no free slots, Germany is okay.
In either case, no spec upgrade is required. (I would like to use this as a monitoring for my website)
And thank you to the node providers and supporters.
❤ #ThanksGTHost, #Thankscrunchbits, #ThanksScaleBlade, #ThanksPieHasBeenEaten, and #ThanksWebHorizon
Also, should I also add #ThanksGenerousAnonymousDonor?
Deployed in Germany since Tokyo is donation only. Have fun!
My apologies, I just realized you had already shown your donation proof to @Not_Oles
Service has been redeployed in Tokyo, have fun!
Haha, I think I can say that there has been some very fun confusion behind the scenes concerning @tototo's request. Various PMs flying around on various platforms! Ships passing in the night! But @FrankZ always stays exactly on everything!
@FrankZ Thanks for your kind community enhancing efforts!
@tototo If anything still needs further fixing, just let us know. Any problem, no matter how small, we want to hear about it. Please enjoy your FreeVPS!
@tototo said:
Does Wikimedia send me a receipt? I received an email from them with the donation number (CNTCT-61013593) but no such thing as a PDF of the receipt.
Hi @tototo! Thanks for your message. The scans you sent look okay to me. I will ask the FreeVPS team to discuss your request, and I will get back to you. Thanks again! Best, Tom
I'm surprised by your quick response. Anyway, thank you!
Well, my information is here:
Client No: 2116
Your ID: 363032769857
I would like Tokyo, but if there are no free slots, Germany is okay.
In either case, no spec upgrade is required. (I would like to use this as a monitoring for my website)
And thank you to the node providers and supporters.
❤ #ThanksGTHost, #Thankscrunchbits, #ThanksScaleBlade, #ThanksPieHasBeenEaten, and #ThanksWebHorizon
Also, should I also add #ThanksGenerousAnonymousDonor?
Deployed in Germany since Tokyo is donation only. Have fun!
My apologies, I just realized you had already shown your donation proof to @Not_Oles
Service has been redeployed in Tokyo, have fun!
@Not_Oles said:
Haha, I think I can say that there has been some very fun confusion behind the scenes concerning @tototo's request. Various PMs flying around on various platforms! Ships passing in the night! But @FrankZ always stays exactly on everything!
@FrankZ Thanks for your kind community enhancing efforts!
@tototo If anything still needs further fixing, just let us know. Any problem, no matter how small, we want to hear about it. Please enjoy your FreeVPS!
So far, it is perfect. 💯 By the way, it seems that my irregular procedure in the application has caused some confusion. Sorry.
However, I was very surprised by your quick support! Also, I am not a technical person, but I wanted to give back to the community in some way.
Thank you for all!
@tototo said: So far, it is perfect. 💯 By the way, it seems that my irregular procedure in the application has caused some confusion. Sorry.
However, I was very surprised by your quick support! Also, I am not a technical person, but I wanted to give back to the community in some way.
Thank you for all!
A few things happened. None of them was your fault. So, no worries, please, and no need to apologize.
Something you can do to help is: Please let us know immediately if you notice any problems. We want everything to be as close to perfect as we can manage.
It's great to hear your report that:
So far, it is perfect.
I was thinking about you earlier today. I wondered whether you would share a progress report. I imagined you would. I was not wrong! From our perspective, the FreeVPS Team works hard trying to make FreeVPS as good as possible. Many people say thank-you, but not so many people actually give us a report about how their VPS is working. So it is lovely for us to receive your report! ✨💖✨
I was thinking about you earlier today. I wondered whether you would share a progress report. I imagined you would. I was not wrong! From our perspective, the FreeVPS Team works hard trying to make FreeVPS as good as possible. Many people say thank-you, but not so many people actually give us a report about how their VPS is working. So it is lovely for us to receive your report! ✨💖✨
Sorry. My native language is not English, so I may have conveyed the message in an unintended way.
I was about to say something like, "So far, it's perfect, and it will continue to be perfect."
The only issue was that the specs were confusing, but that has now been fixed, so I think it's perfect!
Giveaway Timeline
Entries will open today and run for one week, ending on October 15th at 17:00 GMT+5:30. So, make sure to get your entries in before the clock strikes!
Thank you for an incredible year, and here's to many more together! 🥂🎉
I am hard to beat for the worst FreeVPS.org VM uptime! That's because I don't have any FreeVPS VMs! 😂 I thought about running one VM on every node for monitoring, but I haven't done it yet.
I'm delighted to hear that your VM is running okay! That's great! 👍
I am hard to beat for the worst FreeVPS.org VM uptime! That's because I don't have any FreeVPS VMs! 😂 I thought about running one VM on every node for monitoring, but I haven't done it yet.
I'm delighted to hear that your VM is running okay! That's great! 👍
I am hard to beat for the worst FreeVPS.org VM uptime! That's because I don't have any FreeVPS VMs! 😂 I thought about running one VM on every node for monitoring, but I haven't done it yet.
I'm delighted to hear that your VM is running okay! That's great! 👍
A normal application consists of the purpose, thankfulness, and some ID information, which are not huge money, expertise, or anything beyond attainment.
People wouldn't compose such a trivial application by their own deserve nobody's respect.
I have no intention to blame those people, simply because there seems too many of them, and obviously the system which produces such people are to blame.
As for the compliment (mentor, leader, captain, steersman, long live ...), it's modified from sentences in Quotations from Chairman Mao, which is a part of Mao's cult of personality.
Similar slogans against freedom, democracy, rule of law, humanity, or any universal values can still be seen painted on some outside walls after decades. Anyone who doesn't want to live in North Korea or 1984 should feel chilled and alarmed at that.
Some people adore that, so I put the sentences here as a trap to alleviate or slow down abuse.
Mentioned this on LET, posting here as well.
The giveaway will be done soon, we have not forgotten about it.
I am travelling and the rest of the members are occupied with personal stuff, so there is a delay in announcing the winners.
@sh97 said:
The giveaway results are finally here!
Congrats to the winners.
Please leave your Client ID here; your resources will be bumped in the upcoming days.
@sh97 said:
The giveaway results are finally here!
Congrats to the winners.
Please leave your Client ID here; your resources will be bumped in the upcoming days.
@GTHost kindly has replaced the disks on the PHX node, which has been reinstalled with Debian 12. Thanks GTHost! Special thanks to GTHost support for always being around, always being friendly, and always helping with everything! Now the FreeVPS Team needs to install Virtfusion. Thanks @VirtFusion!
Shhh! Don't tell anybody, but it looks like we might have not one, not two, but maybe even three new Nodes coming up soon! Perhaps as early as next week.
The Team told me this morning that FreeVPS has 80 active VPSes!
Depending on whether the new nodes are included in the Node count, FreeVPS.org has between about eight and about eleven Nodes.
FreeVPS.org might incorporate soon. Maybe in the US, maybe in England, maybe in India, maybe elsewhere. If somebody wants to join the FreeVPS Team, help us out, and ride along through the incorporation process (if it happens) -- might be a chance to learn how to start your own startup.
FreeVPS has three really great guys, @sh97, @TheOnlyDK, and @FatGrizzly, on the FreeVPS volunteer, unpaid admin team. Recently, however, FreeVPS went through a time I imagined could never happen! All three guys were taken out temporarily by important life events. Unbelievably, that means FreeVPS needs at least one and maybe two more volunteer, unpaid guys on the FreeVPS admin Team. The current Team likes to use Debian 12, VirtFusion, and Blesta. So, to join the team, it would help to have experience with these or at least a great interest in learning. If you might be interested in joining the FreeVPS admin Team, please post here or get in touch at the email on my profile with a resume or CV. Sorry, I can't access LinkedIn.
Good morning from the Sonoran Desert! Here's the latest FreeVPS.org update!
New Nodes
If you take a look at the FreeVPS website you can see that four new Hypervisor Nodes have been added. That's
-- Sweden (Thanks InternetPort!),
-- Ohio (Thanks Microtronix!), and
-- Utah (Thanks HostEONS!) in the USA, plus
-- Romania (Thanks Hosteroid!).
A Team member already has logged in and done work on the new Sweden, Ohio, and Utah Nodes. Team members are in the process of installing VirtFusion (Thanks VirtFusion!) and testing. I expect that the Team will make a lot of progress this coming weekend.
Phoenix
It's been mentioned that PHX is back up with replacement drives (Thanks GTHost!). PHX has a few extra IPv4s, which gave us the idea of provisioning a few larger free VPSes, each with its own static IPv4 instead of NAT. (Of course, there also is IPv6.) GTHost kindly gave permission to try, so the Team has been talking about it. A concern which arose in our Team discussions was the possibility that larger free VPSes with static IPv4 might invite abuse.
New FreeVPS Team Members
Two wonderful guys have requested to join the FreeVPS Team! Thanks to you both for your willingness to contribute to the Low End community! Over the upcoming days I expect that FreeVPS will approve both your applications and get both of you integrated into the very fun Team chat, where there is lots of humor.
Beer Money Received
We have been thinking about incorporating FreeVPS. Incorporating came up in the context of a potential bare metal server Node sponsor insisting that someone pay $5 once a year for the sponsored server so that the police (he actually said "police") in his country would know who was responsible for the server. A corporate registration might regularize FreeVPS' signups with our providers. There is also at least a possibility of a charitable tax exemption.
To pay the costs of possible incorporation, I asked the Community to pledge possible contributions. The current status of the pledges is
$160 - ($40 + $16 + $20 + $7) = $77 to go
The $160 is arbitrary. It's based on the incorporation fee charged by Delaware.
Amusingly, one of our more wonderful Community stalwarts, just forwarded funds via PayPal to the email address on my profile. This happened even though he clearly understood that FreeVPS might not incorporate. He called it "beer money." Haha! FreeVPS now has $19.40 to go toward incorporation or beer expenses.
FreeVPS Neighbors
For you guys who are active and helpful here on the Low End, and who meet the requirements in the OP, FreeVPS would love to give out more free VPSes. So please ask, and the Team happily will get a free VPS up and running for you! FreeVPS has over 80 VPSes running now, and we have room for many more!
On the FreeVPS Team's virtual office's conference room table, October 28, 2023:
Update OP To Include New Node Sponsors
-- How? Too many Sponsors to fit into thread title!
New Team Members
-- Welcome them, help them integrate, make jokes.
HostEONS Website
-- Create FreeVPS account as requested by HostEONS
Install Virtfusion And Test New Nodes
-- Internetport
-- HostEONS
-- Microtronix
-- Hosteroid (status? does FreeVPS have this yet?)
GTHost PHX
-- Does anybody mind if I try @tang_cn's libvirt tutorial on this node? @GTHost said it was okay to try. Trying the @tang_cn style libvirt means installing Virtfusion might have to wait awhile for this Node. If I can get libvirt working, maybe FreeVPS could give away a few bigger VPSes with static IPv4s?
FreeVPS Birthday Giveaway
-- Finish provisioning winners
-- anything else?
Incorporation / Registration
-- $20 donation "Beer Money for @Not_Oles" received from Anonymous Benefactor
-- Status $160 - ($40 + $16 + $20 + $7) = $77 to go (Including Beer Money)
Now FreeVPS needs to onboard the three recently added team members, finish installing five (is it really five?) new Nodes plus PHX (PHX has new disks and new Debian 12), and announce the winners of the uptime contest. Maybe (just maybe) PHX might offer about two or three larger VPSes, each with its own static IPv4 and IPv6.
Overall, things have been a bit slow. All volunteers on the Team. Family issues, illness, exams, etc. Life happens.
Hope you all are enjoying your free VPSes! Does anybody else want a FreeVPS?
Thanks to all our FreeVPS Sponsors, users Neighbors, and Team Members!
Tom
Heard a rumor about a possible new Node in S i n g a p o r e. Maybe this actually could happen!? Woohoo!
Looks like a few hours of downtime happening now on the FreeVPS Cd'A Crunchbits Node due to datacenter migration. Thanks @crunchbits for datacenter improvements which will make FreeVPS' Cd'A Node even more better!
@terrorgen said:
Cœur d'Alene, Liberty Lake, or Spokane? @crunchbits can't be operating from all these places, right?
The server is being moved from CdA to LL. I am unsure, but I think operations might occur at all three locations you mentioned plus possibly more in the works.
Oh, I just this second realized that the FreeVPS Node's move from CdA to LL means we need to update the server location on the FreeVPS website and also in the LES and OGF OPs! Thanks for asking your question!
@terrorgen said:
Cœur d'Alene, Liberty Lake, or Spokane? @crunchbits can't be operating from all these places, right?
We are. All 3 are separate facilities. However, Liberty Lake is the primary and will soon be the only customer-facing location. Spokane is mostly peering/off-site backups/internal use/connectivity related at this point.
edit: Oklahoma City, OK and Allentown, PA as well--but we're not going to release and/or onboard new customers until this migration project locally is 100% complete and existing customers are all checked out good-to-go.
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HappyFirstBdayFreeVPS
This is my first post about LES, but I'm already using FreeVPS.org. Some of the LES members probably know of me.
BALLOON | FU-SEN from Japan - You may know me from other places...
HappyFirstBdayFreeVPS
What's this all about?
In stasis until the shitposting stops/abates.
Than=compare;then=sequence:brought=bring;bought=buy:staffs=pile of sticks:informations/infos=no plural.
It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away. || NVMe2G for life! until death (the end is nigh).
HappyFirstBdayFreeVPS
Want free vps ? https://microlxc.net
Happy Birthday!
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
HappyFirstBdayFreeVPS.
Full of L
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Hi @tototo! Thanks for your message. The scans you sent look okay to me. I will ask the FreeVPS team to discuss your request, and I will get back to you. Thanks again! Best, Tom
I'm surprised by your quick response. Anyway, thank you!
Well, my information is here:
I would like Tokyo, but if there are no free slots, Germany is okay.
In either case, no spec upgrade is required. (I would like to use this as a monitoring for my website)
And thank you to the node providers and supporters.
❤ #ThanksGTHost, #Thankscrunchbits, #ThanksScaleBlade, #ThanksPieHasBeenEaten, and #ThanksWebHorizon
Also, should I also add #ThanksGenerousAnonymousDonor?
@TheOnlyDK 🍫 @FatGrizzly 🍫 @sh97 🍫 @GenerousAnonymousDonor 🍫
HappyFirstBdayFreeVPS 🎉
Greeting from 🇮🇩
Sultan Muda - Amazon Store
HappyFirstBdayFreeVPS
Deployed in Germany since Tokyo is donation only. Have fun!
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My apologies, I just realized you had already shown your donation proof to @Not_Oles
Service has been redeployed in Tokyo, have fun!
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Haha, I think I can say that there has been some very fun confusion behind the scenes concerning @tototo's request.
Various PMs flying around on various platforms! Ships passing in the night! 
But @FrankZ always stays exactly on everything!
@sh97 @FatGrizzly @TheOnlyDK Thanks for awesome work for FreeVPS!
@FrankZ Thanks for your kind community enhancing efforts!
@tototo If anything still needs further fixing, just let us know. Any problem, no matter how small, we want to hear about it. Please enjoy your FreeVPS!
So far, it is perfect. 💯 By the way, it seems that my irregular procedure in the application has caused some confusion. Sorry.
However, I was very surprised by your quick support! Also, I am not a technical person, but I wanted to give back to the community in some way.
Thank you for all!
Thank you for all!
A few things happened. None of them was your fault. So, no worries, please, and no need to apologize.
Something you can do to help is: Please let us know immediately if you notice any problems. We want everything to be as close to perfect as we can manage.
It's great to hear your report that:
I was thinking about you earlier today. I wondered whether you would share a progress report. I imagined you would. I was not wrong! From our perspective, the FreeVPS Team works hard trying to make FreeVPS as good as possible. Many people say thank-you, but not so many people actually give us a report about how their VPS is working. So it is lovely for us to receive your report! ✨💖✨
My Tokyo freevps is idling fine I guess. I have plans for it but haven't gotten a chance.
DM us for private tracker invite.
HappyFirstBdayFreeVPS.
The uptime is
05:02:34 up 10 days, 13:23, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00MicroLXC is lovable.
btw, why not with screenshot of uptime?
Sorry. My native language is not English, so I may have conveyed the message in an unintended way.
I was about to say something like, "So far, it's perfect, and it will continue to be perfect."
The only issue was that the specs were confusing, but that has now been fixed, so I think it's perfect!
(edit) I forgot to add this 😆
HappyFirstBdayFreeVPS
update on my service :
HappyFirstBirthdayFreeVPS.org! 💝
@Ganonk Congrats! Excellent uptime!
thank you 😊
Maybe I should aim for number one in the worst rankings?
I am hard to beat for the worst FreeVPS.org VM uptime! That's because I don't have any FreeVPS VMs! 😂 I thought about running one VM on every node for monitoring, but I haven't done it yet.
I'm delighted to hear that your VM is running okay! That's great! 👍
I can tie you!
The Yeti has left the building.
Excellent!
ThanksGTHost
Thankscrunchbits
ThanksScaleBlade
ThanksPieHasBeenEaten
Client No: 2227
Your ID: 792796227121
I'd like to deploy a self-hosted vaultwarden server to backup passwords.
Preferred location is London, UK.
Thank you.
The great mentors, the great leaders, the great captains, the great steersmen! Long live the donors!
Copy pasted from @bliss and ineligible. Wouldn't hurt to at least read the post before posting.
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A normal application consists of the purpose, thankfulness, and some ID information, which are not huge money, expertise, or anything beyond attainment.
People wouldn't compose such a trivial application by their own deserve nobody's respect.
I have no intention to blame those people, simply because there seems too many of them, and obviously the system which produces such people are to blame.
As for the compliment (mentor, leader, captain, steersman, long live ...), it's modified from sentences in Quotations from Chairman Mao, which is a part of Mao's cult of personality.
Similar slogans against freedom, democracy, rule of law, humanity, or any universal values can still be seen painted on some outside walls after decades. Anyone who doesn't want to live in North Korea or 1984 should feel chilled and alarmed at that.
Some people adore that, so I put the sentences here as a trap to alleviate or slow down abuse.
MicroLXC is lovable.
Hate it when I spent an hour writing that one email, then someone just copy pasted everything and send them to others.
Not even giving me credit.
DM us for private tracker invite.
Mentioned this on LET, posting here as well.
The giveaway will be done soon, we have not forgotten about it.
I am travelling and the rest of the members are occupied with personal stuff, so there is a delay in announcing the winners.
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The giveaway results are finally here!
Congrats to the winners.
Please leave your Client ID here; your resources will be bumped in the upcoming days.
RAM WINNERS [ @rasping5978, @kheng86, @selalumenang ]
MEM WINNERS [ @BasToTheMax, @babywhale, @Ganonk ]
Uptime winners will be announced later.
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Client No : 2013
My ID : 805154014099
omg 😳 I win
Client No: 2119
Your ID: 350523216317
Congratulations to the winners! Enjoy your resource bump
Upgrade applied. +5GB storage.
Since you are in Tokyo, we cannot modify storage or RAM. I have bumped your port speed to 150Mbps
Reboot from the panel for changes to apply
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Morning guys!
Welcome to new neighbors!
Congrats to contest winners!
@GTHost kindly has replaced the disks on the PHX node, which has been reinstalled with Debian 12. Thanks GTHost! Special thanks to GTHost support for always being around, always being friendly, and always helping with everything!
Now the FreeVPS Team needs to install Virtfusion. Thanks @VirtFusion!
Shhh! Don't tell anybody, but it looks like we might have not one, not two, but maybe even three new Nodes coming up soon! Perhaps as early as next week.
The Team told me this morning that FreeVPS has 80 active VPSes!
Depending on whether the new nodes are included in the Node count, FreeVPS.org has between about eight and about eleven Nodes.
FreeVPS.org might incorporate soon. Maybe in the US, maybe in England, maybe in India, maybe elsewhere. If somebody wants to join the FreeVPS Team, help us out, and ride along through the incorporation process (if it happens) -- might be a chance to learn how to start your own startup.
FreeVPS has three really great guys, @sh97, @TheOnlyDK, and @FatGrizzly, on the FreeVPS volunteer, unpaid admin team. Recently, however, FreeVPS went through a time I imagined could never happen! All three guys were taken out temporarily by important life events. Unbelievably, that means FreeVPS needs at least one and maybe two more volunteer, unpaid guys on the FreeVPS admin Team. The current Team likes to use Debian 12, VirtFusion, and Blesta. So, to join the team, it would help to have experience with these or at least a great interest in learning. If you might be interested in joining the FreeVPS admin Team, please post here or get in touch at the email on my profile with a resume or CV. Sorry, I can't access LinkedIn.
Hi Guys!
Good morning from the Sonoran Desert! Here's the latest FreeVPS.org update!
If you take a look at the FreeVPS website you can see that four new Hypervisor Nodes have been added. That's
A Team member already has logged in and done work on the new Sweden, Ohio, and Utah Nodes. Team members are in the process of installing VirtFusion (Thanks VirtFusion!) and testing. I expect that the Team will make a lot of progress this coming weekend.
It's been mentioned that PHX is back up with replacement drives (Thanks GTHost!). PHX has a few extra IPv4s, which gave us the idea of provisioning a few larger free VPSes, each with its own static IPv4 instead of NAT. (Of course, there also is IPv6.) GTHost kindly gave permission to try, so the Team has been talking about it. A concern which arose in our Team discussions was the possibility that larger free VPSes with static IPv4 might invite abuse.
Two wonderful guys have requested to join the FreeVPS Team! Thanks to you both for your willingness to contribute to the Low End community! Over the upcoming days I expect that FreeVPS will approve both your applications and get both of you integrated into the very fun Team chat, where there is lots of humor.
We have been thinking about incorporating FreeVPS. Incorporating came up in the context of a potential bare metal server Node sponsor insisting that someone pay $5 once a year for the sponsored server so that the police (he actually said "police") in his country would know who was responsible for the server. A corporate registration might regularize FreeVPS' signups with our providers. There is also at least a possibility of a charitable tax exemption.
To pay the costs of possible incorporation, I asked the Community to pledge possible contributions. The current status of the pledges is
The $160 is arbitrary. It's based on the incorporation fee charged by Delaware.
Amusingly, one of our more wonderful Community stalwarts, just forwarded funds via PayPal to the email address on my profile. This happened even though he clearly understood that FreeVPS might not incorporate. He called it "beer money." Haha! FreeVPS now has $19.40 to go toward incorporation or beer expenses.
For you guys who are active and helpful here on the Low End, and who meet the requirements in the OP, FreeVPS would love to give out more free VPSes. So please ask, and the Team happily will get a free VPS up and running for you! FreeVPS has over 80 VPSes running now, and we have room for many more!
Moar VPS per member?
DM us for private tracker invite.
1.5 good? 😉
What about 4 cores, 4 GB, 400 GB? 😸
That's beefy for a free vps!
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Really happy to see FreeVPS is expanding,
Great job guys 👊🏻
Good morning, Guys!
On the FreeVPS Team's virtual office's conference room table, October 28, 2023:
Update OP To Include New Node Sponsors
-- How? Too many Sponsors to fit into thread title!
New Team Members
-- Welcome them, help them integrate, make jokes.
HostEONS Website
-- Create FreeVPS account as requested by HostEONS
Install Virtfusion And Test New Nodes
-- Internetport
-- HostEONS
-- Microtronix
-- Hosteroid (status? does FreeVPS have this yet?)
GTHost PHX
-- Does anybody mind if I try @tang_cn's libvirt tutorial on this node? @GTHost said it was okay to try. Trying the @tang_cn style libvirt means installing Virtfusion might have to wait awhile for this Node. If I can get libvirt working, maybe FreeVPS could give away a few bigger VPSes with static IPv4s?
FreeVPS Birthday Giveaway
-- Finish provisioning winners
-- anything else?
Incorporation / Registration
-- $20 donation "Beer Money for @Not_Oles" received from Anonymous Benefactor
-- Status $160 - ($40 + $16 + $20 + $7) = $77 to go (Including Beer Money)
What Else?
Hi Everyone!
Added @babywhale to FreeVPS Team! Welcome @babywhale!
Now FreeVPS needs to onboard the three recently added team members, finish installing five (is it really five?) new Nodes plus PHX (PHX has new disks and new Debian 12), and announce the winners of the uptime contest. Maybe (just maybe) PHX might offer about two or three larger VPSes, each with its own static IPv4 and IPv6.
Overall, things have been a bit slow. All volunteers on the Team. Family issues, illness, exams, etc. Life happens.
Hope you all are enjoying your free VPSes! Does anybody else want a FreeVPS?
Thanks to all our FreeVPS Sponsors, users Neighbors, and Team Members!
Tom
Heard a rumor about a possible new Node in S i n g a p o r e. Maybe this actually could happen!? Woohoo!
wow Singapore is coming
Hello!
Looks like a few hours of downtime happening now on the FreeVPS Cd'A Crunchbits Node due to datacenter migration. Thanks @crunchbits for datacenter improvements which will make FreeVPS' Cd'A Node even more better!
Details may be found at crunchbits.com:
https://get.crunchbits.com/announcements/22/NOTICE-Upcoming-Legacy-Server-Migration-and-Scheduled-Downtime.html
Thanks!
Tom
Cœur d'Alene, Liberty Lake, or Spokane?
@crunchbits can't be operating from all these places, right?
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The server is being moved from CdA to LL. I am unsure, but I think operations might occur at all three locations you mentioned plus possibly more in the works.
Oh, I just this second realized that the FreeVPS Node's move from CdA to LL means we need to update the server location on the FreeVPS website and also in the LES and OGF OPs! Thanks for asking your question!
We are. All 3 are separate facilities. However, Liberty Lake is the primary and will soon be the only customer-facing location. Spokane is mostly peering/off-site backups/internal use/connectivity related at this point.
edit: Oklahoma City, OK and Allentown, PA as well--but we're not going to release and/or onboard new customers until this migration project locally is 100% complete and existing customers are all checked out good-to-go.
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