@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.
@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.
That's a lot of datacenters in a small area!
Off-topic: what color are your diesel generators?
They originally served different purposes/types of gear (and evolved with where the fiber was available). As we grew, so did our bargaining power to make things more efficient.
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!
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!
FWIW, I have had discussions about additional FreeVPS Nodes in India and in Singapore. The machine anticipated to become the FreeVPS India Node has been installed with Debian, and it's now being tested. SG is maybe still just an idea in the mind of the Sponsor, but he is a good guy. We will see what happens. Might take awhile!
Want a free VPS? Please read the OP of this thread.
@Not_Oles said:
FWIW, I have had discussions about additional FreeVPS Nodes in India and in Singapore. The machine anticipated to become the FreeVPS India Node has been installed with Debian, and it's now being tested. SG is maybe still just an idea in the mind of the Sponsor, but he is a good guy. We will see what happens. Might take awhile!
Want a free VPS? Please read the OP of this thread.
Best!
Been a bit busy, but I will message you asap. have a query on mind.
@balloon said:
> @newlan said:
> I've been here for a long time and I haven't been able to get enough 25 thanks !
I feel like it's hard to get thanks here. I got it elsewhere and am using FreeVPS.org.
@newlan Do you think about the other members when you post? Do you post your tech questions and your tutorials? Are many of your posts just about your own participation in some deal or another deal?
@newlan I am guessing that you might not be a native English speaker. Maybe it sometimes can be more difficult for someone who is not a native English speaker to be thanked?
@newlan What FreeVPS can do is talk inside the FreeVPS Team about making a one time exception to the 25 Thanks rule just for you. Please read the OP again, and please do what it says in the OP: go sign up for a FreeVPS account, and then post your account numbers and your desired location. If you have any questions about the procedure, just ask here in this thread. Maybe the Team will agree to make an exception for you. If the Team does not agree to make the exception for you, probably something else might happen.
@balloon You seem to be a nice guy! Thank you for your helpful, polite comments here on LES and also on OGF. May I please ask, What are you running on your FreeVPS? Are you satisfied with it? What could FreeVPS do to make your VPS better?
@Not_Oles said: @balloon You seem to be a nice guy! Thank you for your helpful, polite comments here on LES and also on OGF. May I please ask, What are you running on your FreeVPS? Are you satisfied with it? What could FreeVPS do to make your VPS better?
I run a Japanese Telnet BBS. It uses a Raspberry Pi 3 B. A Japanese VPS was required to communicate via Telnet.
(PPPoE and NAT are no longer being used in Japan due to changes in lines)
For that purpose, I go through FreeVPS.org's Tokyo VPS. Since the transfer was text, it was very small and had sufficient specifications.
Also, as a Misskey bot, I am running a simple code using cron. (if you know, misskey is a SNS like Mastodon)
I used to do this on AMD in an OCI instance, and a lot of people had trouble with it.
Thanks to FreeVPS.org that was switched. I'm really satisfied. Thanks for the offer!
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@balloon Excellent! Very fun ways to use a FreeVPS! Congrats!
Yes, telnet still has its uses such as your BBS. Sometimes telnet still can talk with a friendly email MTA. Sometimes telnet can talk with a friendly router. Back in the old days I often connected to a computer in a library via telnet. The library's computer had Lynx browser installed. Plus the library's computer had a fast connection. It was great!
I am glad your FreeVPS is working well for you! I hope you continue having fun with FreeVPS, telnet, your BBS, and Misskey!
Good morning, guys! FreeVPS is delighted to announce that its long search for a Project Leader finally succeeded! Eric @crunchbits generously has stepped forward to take leadership!
For quite some time it has been my opinion that the long term future of FreeVPS would benefit greatly from leadership better able to accomplish overall, high-level structural organization, corporate registration, and possibly even non-profit status. Moreover I keep wanting to invest my time toward additional goals.
Nevertheless, there was no one who was willing to take over FreeVPS! Finally, back in February, I tried leaving the Project Leader position open. That didn't work. By March 21 there had been ten or eleven days without a post on the FreeVPS thread. So I had to come back.
By March 31, FreeVPS added a LES thread. By May 26 FreeVPS crossed the 50 Client milestone. Then FreeVPS enjoyed its First Birthday Celebration on October 6.
On October 21 I was able to raise only about half of the $160 that I requested to incorporate FreeVPS. Not incorporatiing FreeVPS closes the door to tax-exempt donations. Moreover, all the server Sponsors quite reasonably want a name on their sponsored server accounts as the party responsible. With incorporation, the corporation can be the responsible party. Without incorporation, one or another of the individuals on the FreeVPS Team has to hold personal responsibility for sponsored servers. That isn't fair!
Right now, behind the scenes, FreeVPS is being approached by still more server Sponsors. India, Singapore, and Africa are being considered! The FreeVPS Team recently has doubled! FreeVPS is above 80 clients, well on its way to reaching 100!
Already, Eric has suggested an agenda for further progress, upgraded the FreeVPS Team's internal chat, and has mapped the steps leading toward incorporation. I ask everyone to be kind to Eric. He is more than just a Provider. He is one of us here at our beautiful Low End! The FreeVPS Team members and I have talked with Eric every day for months and months. Please appreciate the amount of work and expense Eric has taken on by assuming leadership of FreeVPS after nobody else stepped up to benefit the community. FreeVPS has shown many signs of future success, and Eric has shown many signs of capable leadership. Both groups of signs give me hope and confidence that FreeVPS has a good chance for a great future!
As for me, I have another initiative in mind. I plan to stick around here at wonderful LES. You might even see a few more posts from me.
Thanks so much to all the FreeVPS Server Sponsors! So many of you now! Thanks so much to the Sponsors of our administrative and billing sites, software, and consulting. To the FreeVPS Team, what can I say? I love you all! To the guys in the Community, our FreeVPS Clients, I love you too!
Hardware upgrade underway for hypervisor ID TYO-K3 (Japan) - we are migrating services to new hypervisor.
Expected disruption 2 - 10 minutes per service depending on disk size.
Hi All,
A bit late for the BF/CM, but we wanted to give something to our users!
Similar to our anniversary giveaway - comment with a keyword, and you may be a lucky winner who gets a random resource upgrade (except TYO, which will be a port upgrade)
To make it fun this time, we've taken some inspiration from the recent event around one of our sponsors Crunchbits.
To participate, just comment #LoremIpsum. No spamming - only one entry per user.
We will be drawing the winners during the weekend!
Good Luck!
thank you. I registered for FreeVPS.org elsewhere, so I'm going through the process there.
I was using Tokyo, JP Node, so I needed to move the node. (Tokyo node cannot expand specs)
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That's a lot of datacenters in a small area!
Off-topic: what color are your diesel generators?
DM us for private tracker invite.
They originally served different purposes/types of gear (and evolved with where the fiber was available). As we grew, so did our bargaining power to make things more efficient.
Ones green and ones yellow. My boxers are red.
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Hello everyone
im glad to be here 
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Hello! Thanks for helping FreeVPS and welcome to LES
oh my aptaim
By "aptaim" did you mean "uptime?"
crunchy server ought to be back up now! Any issues, please let me know.
ahyess! thank you.
FWIW, I have had discussions about additional FreeVPS Nodes in India and in Singapore. The machine anticipated to become the FreeVPS India Node has been installed with Debian, and it's now being tested. SG is maybe still just an idea in the mind of the Sponsor, but he is a good guy. We will see what happens. Might take awhile!
Want a free VPS? Please read the OP of this thread.
Best!
Been a bit busy, but I will message you asap. have a query on mind.
https://webhorizon.net
Hello Everyone!
Were excited to announce new Locations!
Bucharest, Romania and Salt Lake City, UT-USA are now available!
*Only NAT ipv4 is available right now with 20x forwarded ports but IPv6 will be coming shortly!
Thank you for the generous donations from @Hosteroid ( Bucharest, Romania ) and @hostEONS ( Salt Lake City, UT-USA )
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thank you
I've been here for a long time and I haven't been able to get enough 25 thanks !
I feel like it's hard to get thanks here. I got it elsewhere and am using FreeVPS.org.
BALLOON | FU-SEN from Japan - You may know me from other places...
@newlan Do you think about the other members when you post? Do you post your tech questions and your tutorials? Are many of your posts just about your own participation in some deal or another deal?
@newlan I am guessing that you might not be a native English speaker. Maybe it sometimes can be more difficult for someone who is not a native English speaker to be thanked?
@newlan What FreeVPS can do is talk inside the FreeVPS Team about making a one time exception to the 25 Thanks rule just for you. Please read the OP again, and please do what it says in the OP: go sign up for a FreeVPS account, and then post your account numbers and your desired location. If you have any questions about the procedure, just ask here in this thread. Maybe the Team will agree to make an exception for you.
If the Team does not agree to make the exception for you, probably something else might happen.
@balloon You seem to be a nice guy! Thank you for your helpful, polite comments here on LES and also on OGF. May I please ask, What are you running on your FreeVPS? Are you satisfied with it? What could FreeVPS do to make your VPS better?
Best wishes!
I run a Japanese Telnet BBS. It uses a Raspberry Pi 3 B. A Japanese VPS was required to communicate via Telnet.
(PPPoE and NAT are no longer being used in Japan due to changes in lines)
For that purpose, I go through FreeVPS.org's Tokyo VPS. Since the transfer was text, it was very small and had sufficient specifications.
Also, as a Misskey bot, I am running a simple code using cron. (if you know, misskey is a SNS like Mastodon)
I used to do this on AMD in an OCI instance, and a lot of people had trouble with it.
Thanks to FreeVPS.org that was switched. I'm really satisfied. Thanks for the offer!
BALLOON | FU-SEN from Japan - You may know me from other places...
@balloon Excellent! Very fun ways to use a FreeVPS! Congrats!
Yes, telnet still has its uses such as your BBS. Sometimes telnet still can talk with a friendly email MTA. Sometimes telnet can talk with a friendly router. Back in the old days I often connected to a computer in a library via telnet. The library's computer had Lynx browser installed. Plus the library's computer had a fast connection. It was great!
I am glad your FreeVPS is working well for you! I hope you continue having fun with FreeVPS, telnet, your BBS, and Misskey!
But you only have 31 posts, maybe you should participate more
"How miserable life is in the abuses of power..."
F. Battiato ---
Good morning, guys! FreeVPS is delighted to announce that its long search for a Project Leader finally succeeded! Eric @crunchbits generously has stepped forward to take leadership!
For quite some time it has been my opinion that the long term future of FreeVPS would benefit greatly from leadership better able to accomplish overall, high-level structural organization, corporate registration, and possibly even non-profit status. Moreover I keep wanting to invest my time toward additional goals.
Nevertheless, there was no one who was willing to take over FreeVPS! Finally, back in February, I tried leaving the Project Leader position open. That didn't work. By March 21 there had been ten or eleven days without a post on the FreeVPS thread. So I had to come back.
By March 31, FreeVPS added a LES thread. By May 26 FreeVPS crossed the 50 Client milestone. Then FreeVPS enjoyed its First Birthday Celebration on October 6.
On October 21 I was able to raise only about half of the $160 that I requested to incorporate FreeVPS. Not incorporatiing FreeVPS closes the door to tax-exempt donations. Moreover, all the server Sponsors quite reasonably want a name on their sponsored server accounts as the party responsible. With incorporation, the corporation can be the responsible party. Without incorporation, one or another of the individuals on the FreeVPS Team has to hold personal responsibility for sponsored servers. That isn't fair!
Right now, behind the scenes, FreeVPS is being approached by still more server Sponsors. India, Singapore, and Africa are being considered! The FreeVPS Team recently has doubled! FreeVPS is above 80 clients, well on its way to reaching 100!
Already, Eric has suggested an agenda for further progress, upgraded the FreeVPS Team's internal chat, and has mapped the steps leading toward incorporation. I ask everyone to be kind to Eric. He is more than just a Provider. He is one of us here at our beautiful Low End! The FreeVPS Team members and I have talked with Eric every day for months and months. Please appreciate the amount of work and expense Eric has taken on by assuming leadership of FreeVPS after nobody else stepped up to benefit the community. FreeVPS has shown many signs of future success, and Eric has shown many signs of capable leadership. Both groups of signs give me hope and confidence that FreeVPS has a good chance for a great future!
As for me, I have another initiative in mind. I plan to stick around here at wonderful LES. You might even see a few more posts from me.
Thanks so much to all the FreeVPS Server Sponsors! So many of you now! Thanks so much to the Sponsors of our administrative and billing sites, software, and consulting. To the FreeVPS Team, what can I say? I love you all! To the guys in the Community, our FreeVPS Clients, I love you too!
This will affect FreeVPS Tokyo node.
https://webhorizon.net
get ready for updates regarding some of our locations
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Thanks for Giving-Back-The-Community! 💖
Singapore
Hello Everyone
New And Returning Locations With IPv6!
Location: Phoenix, AZ-USA @GTHost
Location: Hudiksvall, Sweden @internetport
Location: Ottoville, OH-USA @Microtronix_20
Location: Salt Lake City, UT-USA @HostEONS
Location: Bucharest, Romania @Hosteroid
Please read original post to see how you can get your own freevps!
All our locations now have working IPv6 thanks to the freevps team!
Again thank you for our sponsors!!!
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Hi All,
A bit late for the BF/CM, but we wanted to give something to our users!
Similar to our anniversary giveaway - comment with a keyword, and you may be a lucky winner who gets a random resource upgrade (except TYO, which will be a port upgrade)
To make it fun this time, we've taken some inspiration from the recent event around one of our sponsors Crunchbits.
To participate, just comment #LoremIpsum. No spamming - only one entry per user.
We will be drawing the winners during the weekend!
Good Luck!
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@sh97 you guys have sponsors? Why doesn't the Yeti have sponsors?
The Yeti has left the building.
Frankz is blocking our attempts. blame him!
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That Summa Ditch!!!!!
The Yeti has left the building.
LoremIpsum
"How miserable life is in the abuses of power..."
F. Battiato ---
LoremIpsum
Why?
LoremIpsum
LoremIpsum
LoremIpsum
LoremIpsum
LoremIpsum
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LoremIpsum
LoremIpsum
#LoremÎpsum
LōrëmÍpsûm
DM us for private tracker invite.
LoremIpsum
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you all been drinking again?
The Yeti has left the building.
You missed the lorem Ipsum CAO CACAO incident of Crunchbits on LET. It was fun.
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LET means I missed nothing.
The Yeti has left the building.
This time you did. It was an angry MJJ who created 3-5 threads, only 2 of them are visible now. Had a lot of memes in there 😂
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Ahhh the mjj drama yeah no not my bag. Most of them are just sexually frustrated tweens anyway.
The Yeti has left the building.
Hello everyone!
Here are your winners! From the giveaway!
RAM WINNERS @ElonBezos , @codelock , @balloon
DISK WINNERS @BasToTheMax , @qquccs , @Carlin0
Congrats to the winners!
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Client No: 2069
Your ID: 491577740018
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Congratulations!
Congratulations!
congrats!!🎉
thank you. I registered for FreeVPS.org elsewhere, so I'm going through the process there.
I was using Tokyo, JP Node, so I needed to move the node. (Tokyo node cannot expand specs)
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