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What do people use their VM's for?
Probably been asked before or polled..
Just curious , besides the hosting guys, what everyone else does..
thanks
What's running on you're server?
- Any of these?79 votes
- Nothing- Runs Idle- Pays hosts rent.50.63%
- File, applications server.21.52%
- Bare metal.  1.27%
- Startup host.  5.06%
- Prefer not to say..  3.80%
- All the above and then some..17.72%
Comments
Start up a summer host
No idea, I only use bare metal.
Depends on what you need.. I use a combination of VMs from different providers in different locations. I have one for Plex, one for nextCloud, a few storage VPS, a few other application servers (sickrage, transmission, etc) - a mix of VZ and KVM depending on requirements.
SPAM, DDOS, you know illegal stuff. Because some people just want to watch the world burnt
Nothing they idle and I give money away. People got to eat I spose.
LOL Thanks!
@AuroraZ Can I interest you in a private-ip-only VPS?
If it's on the moon or Uranus I might be interested. 😂
Tbh they just idle. I do development here and there but quite rarely these days. It ends up being pretty costly when you have a lot of idle servers. We should do a poll for how much people waste on idle servers. :P
Curious what provider you use for plex ? I want one too but can't find good storage deals. Do you use VPS storage for Plex or is there an alternative ?
Also +1 for the mostly idling one.
Looking for a node on Luna (moon) for 7usd/year.
You think they will use earth currency?
Fine, 7 jar(s) of Trump pee. Premium golden water.
LOL
OpenVPN (pritunl), WireGuard, Pi-Hole, unbound, nginx, ZNC, matterbridge.
idling
An unspoken rule of LET, if you haven't got at least 2 idle nodes, you are a heretic.
I got only one idle at the moment but I plan to stack up.
I can't mention the name of the provider as they are taboo on LET but I have a KVM from them I use as the plex server and then use multiple smaller openvz storage vps along with sshfs to mount the storage.
Just gotta be mindful of others on the server and not transcode and use plex only for direct play.
Wait, people use their VPSes?
Pi-hole, OpenVPN, Tiny Tiny RSS, Nextcloud, Dokuwiki, hosting some sites, LibreNMS, Smokeping, InvoiceNinja, Rainloop, Jenkins, Alltube, Jackett, NZBHydra
You sir, are my /r/getmotivated.
Haha, happy to help! Heimdall would suffice in putting all of these services in a nice home brew dashboard.
Forgot to include the services running at my homeserver: Sonarr, Radarr, Bazarr, Lidarr, Ampache, SABnzbd, Transmission, Gitea & Plex. And I have Spotweb running as well.
Almost picked up another, then I realized I would never even logged on beyond once to do apt updates and install sshguard. :-\
I'd check out:
/r/selfhosted - if you're looking for shit to run
/r/homelab - if you're interested in staring at piles of idling gear
opendirectories for shit to download
Yes, except the Virmach ones.
Obviously render 4k porn.
Apps currently/had running at some point:
Yes, misguided individuals seem to still indulge in the unholy practice of putin perfectly idling servers to questionable use.
Disgusting.