MetalVPS Server In Germany Seeks VPSes, chroots, and Shell Accounts for Maximum Low End Fun!

Friendly greetings! 🌎🌍

Radium, a MetalVPS dedicated server in Germany 🇩🇪, was reinstalled last night with Debian 12.

Do you want anything from a small KVM NAT VPS up to the entire server? Or something in between?

Best wishes! 🌎🌍

Tom

Server Specs

Yabs

root@radium ~ # curl -sL yabs.sh | bash
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#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2024-03-05                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
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Tue Apr  2 08:23:02 AM CEST 2024

Basic System Information:
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Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1275 v5 @ 3.60GHz
CPU cores  : 8 @ 800.000 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 62.6 GiB
Swap       : 32.0 GiB
Disk       : 904.5 GiB  << RAID 0 YOLO -- There also is a 100GB /altroot primary partition.
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel     : 6.1.0-18-amd64
VM Type    : NONE
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online

IPv6 Network Information:
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ISP        : [Redacted] Online GmbH
ASN        : AS24940 [Redacted] Online GmbH
Location   : Falkenstein, Saxony (SN)
Country    : Germany

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/md3):
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Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 418.37 MB/s (104.5k) | 1.13 GB/s    (17.7k)
Write      | 419.47 MB/s (104.8k) | 1.14 GB/s    (17.8k)
Total      | 837.85 MB/s (209.4k) | 2.27 GB/s    (35.5k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 1.13 GB/s     (2.2k) | 1.27 GB/s     (1.2k)
Write      | 1.19 GB/s     (2.3k) | 1.36 GB/s     (1.3k)
Total      | 2.32 GB/s     (4.5k) | 2.64 GB/s     (2.5k)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 921 Mbits/sec   | 933 Mbits/sec   | 23.5 ms        
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (10G)       | 928 Mbits/sec   | 935 Mbits/sec   | 10.9 ms        
Telia           | Helsinki, FI (10G)        | 922 Mbits/sec   | 918 Mbits/sec   | 35.4 ms        
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 877 Mbits/sec   | 518 Mbits/sec   | 89.6 ms        
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 586 Mbits/sec   | 592 Mbits/sec   | --             
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 805 Mbits/sec   | 318 Mbits/sec   | 152 ms         
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 858 Mbits/sec   | 623 Mbits/sec   | 94.4 ms        
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 798 Mbits/sec   | 222 Mbits/sec   | 161 ms         

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 908 Mbits/sec   | 919 Mbits/sec   | 23.4 ms        
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (10G)       | 916 Mbits/sec   | 922 Mbits/sec   | 10.8 ms        
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 867 Mbits/sec   | 462 Mbits/sec   | 89.6 ms        
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | busy            | 633 Mbits/sec   | 248 ms         
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 794 Mbits/sec   | 426 Mbits/sec   | 152 ms         
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 849 Mbits/sec   | 661 Mbits/sec   | 94.4 ms        
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 786 Mbits/sec   | 209 Mbits/sec   | 161 ms         

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 1470                          
Multi Core      | 4914                          
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/5563528

YABS completed in 13 min 32 sec
root@radium ~ # 

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 @Not_Oles or you install whatever you want. 🆕 You can get a juicy KVM NAT VPS into which you can ssh and install whatever Open Source software you want. If you get a VPS, maybe you also can get a traditional shell account on Radium.

• Sometimes trusted MetalVPSians might or might not get sudo on Radium, or 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! 🤑

• Occasional maintenance reboots are guaranteed! 🌺 VPSes in this offer can be 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 check to 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! 😸 Or you or @Not_Oles might decide to cancel. 👹

• 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!
• Open source software only!
• No Service Level Agreement (SLA)!
• No refunds!
• Redacted TOS also applies!

Pricing and Payment

• Please make an offer based on the amount of server resources you expect to use and the amount of profit you want for @Not_Oles.

• $7 p/month Maximum for VPS offers.

• $99 p/month Maximum for full Dedicated server offers.

• Between $7 and $99 offers for requests in between $7 VPS and $99 full server.

• Monthly or daily or hourly offers only. Nothing longer than monthly, please.

• Minimum price offers like $1.01 will be considered. Free offers will be considered too.

• Paypal payments may be sent to the email address on @Not_Oles' profile. Zelle and Stripe also might work.

How To Sign Up

• If you can, please say hello to @Not_Oles in #metalvps on Libera.chat.

• Please email @Not_Oles at the address on his LES profile. Please include:

  • your LES user name;

  • your use case for Radium and the resources you need;

  • your payment offer amount;

  • your ed25519 ssh public key;

  • link to your website;

  • link to your Github or other repo; and

  • links to other online profiles.

  • Please feel free to include additional items in your sign up request email.

Support

• LES PMs (personal messages) can be sent to @Not_Oles about items which need privacy.

• Email to the address on @Not_Oles' profile also works.

• You can use #metalvps at Libera.chat.

• Of course, you also can post here in this thread.

More About MetalVPS!

• Providing awesome Low Enders with wonderfully fun VPSes and dedicated servers is the idea behind MetalVPS. Additionally, MetalVPS and @Not_Oles hope to promote community discussion of server related topics and Open Source software.

• 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. 👨‍💻​

What People Are Saying

• About MetalVPS

". . . I sent a donation of $1.01, just because. Keep doing what you do."

"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."

"非常感谢Not_Oles分享免费的MetalVPS为大家使用！" "Big thanks to Not_Oles for sharing his MetalVPS for people to use!"

". . . [V]ery cool that MetalVPS is still a thing Thanks for providing this to the community, tinkering with servers is fun and a learning experience!"

"The permanent free shell account of MetalVPS is very fun!" ("MetalVPS的永久免费shell账号挺好玩的")

"This is really really cool."

"I enjoyed the section of the OP dedicated to complementary comments, including helpful links so they can be verified."

"MetalVPS used to be a high end provider, but it's becoming a sorority now."

"fun stuff indeed, appreciating the comfortable computing experience!"

"Liking my darkstar"

"Nice trial and results! Very interesting "

Metalvps recommended on OGF 🙈

"It just crossed my mind that I've been using your server for over half a year! It's been an amazing experience! . . . Your services deserve much more attention. "

"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"

"the fastest VPS I ever used"

"I've been using this one from him. Highly recommend! His support is really amazing!"

"10/10 metalvps recommended"

"very powerful"

"premium stuff"

"Grab it while the hotel still has vacant rooms."

". . . very passionate and enthusiastic about everything. Not all businesses are made this way and it's very easy to see when you interact with them. You are giving the right impression with this industry and it's wonderful to see."

"I think MetalVPS is designed in between a dedicated and a regular VPS. Some use case cannot fill the capacity of a dedicated but need more CPU than a regular VPS, and it makes sense to use MetalVPS in such situation."

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• About Not_Oles

". . . a certain... finesse."

"@Not_Oles . . . is doing all kinds of interesting work and sharing it with others"

"Hi Tom "

"Tom, you're the best "

"I found it interesting that Tom still treats his free vps members like humans (it's really admirable). . . ."

"@Not_Oles is really a funfull and helpful grandpa!!"

"especially thanks @Not_Oles , He pointed out my problems and told me the correct way to share. He is a good guy."

"I'm not in need for any free vps at the moment, but thanks for what you're doing. If I had this chance few years ago, I think my life would be different."

"I did want to thank @Not_Oles for always being so friendly. Makes me smile seeing how nice you are to everyone here."

"You are a great person."

"Possibly the most polite and enthusiastic personality in the entire LE* world with a genuine interest that runs so deep he even set up a business exclusively catering for LES. as a regular content writer for LES his articles frequently top the charts in terms of most viewed (according to google)"

"Really, you're the best person I've known on the internet."

"we've found that good, in-depth technical articles tend to drive user interaction and new sign-ups on the forum. @Not_Oles's Proxmox articles are evidence of this."

"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 a great guy!"

"he is the sweetest guy in LES .."

"Everybody loves @Not_Oles! "

"resplendent as the Sonoran Sun"

"god bless not_oles ^^"

"every time I visit les and see that profile picture, it brightens up my day."

Thanks!

Thanks to @babywhale for bashvm!

MetalVPS also offers accounts on Crunchy, a US 🇺🇸 MetalVPS server from @crunchbits! Thanks to @crunchbits for wonderful Crunchy!

Tom a/k/a @Not_Oles gets a lot of help from the friendly MetalVPSians and from many other friends. Thanks to each and every one!