What do you use your VPS for?

cobrah

Why is there no anyone hosting VPS for passive incoming?

TheBrokenBee

@cobrah said:
Why is there no anyone hosting VPS for passive incoming?

What Can you do? Mine crypto?

blackeye

@cobrah said:
Why is there no anyone hosting VPS for passive incoming?

Minning crypto in vps not profit

zhi

chī huī、tàn zhēn

Master_Bo

VPN (tinc)
Monitoring edge
Development/testing Web apps
...many other uses as well

brejski

Got two VPS:
1. Contabo: Mailserver (mailcow)
2. Oracle Free Tier: Wireguard Server (full tunnel) + Alt. CA + Alt. DNS + Nginx Load Balancer

Got 8 more VMs, but these are installed on my home server built for $800 (Xeon E5-2660v2 / 48GB / 1TB SSD RAID10 / 2TB HDD RAID1 / ESXi 6.7, 1Gbit NAT):
1. Bitwarden Server
2. Nextcloud Server
3. Main DNS
4. Main CA
5. Web Application Server (Windows)
6. Automation Server (PHP scripts 24/7)
7. Connector - tunnel between mine and my friend's VPN
8. Only set up - for hosting

Exclusively for LET -> going to create a real LowEnd hosting on high-performance servers.

frog

Webhosting + bots.

This Black Friday I got

• 2x small VPS with free DirectAdmin (€40/year)
• VPS (2x dedicated CPU (Gold 6140), 8GB DDR4, 80GB MVMe, DDoS) for my Python projects (€65/year).
• 1 TB free backup. (€1.25 Setup)

All inside the EU, so I can get GDPR compliant.

cybertech

currently 14 VPSes

all are used for YABS

some for Plex and/or production but still YABS as secondary function.

YABS.

NobodyInteresting

@cybertech said:
currently 14 VPSes

all are used for YABS

some for Plex and/or production but still YABS as secondary function.

YABS.

Have you tried running YABS? I hear its a hoot!

plumberg

I have so many plans but none of them materialize due to work or my laziness!

TheBrokenBee

@plumberg said:
I have so many plans but none of them materialize due to work or my laziness!

Mind sharing some?

plumberg

@TheBrokenBee said:

@plumberg said:
I have so many plans but none of them materialize due to work or my laziness!

Mind sharing some?

Most of them are trying to self host content... as long as there are other alternatives that work, I may not get the urgency...

chihcherng

I have 24 VPSes. All of them are used to detect port scans from malware-infected hosts.

Daniel15

@frog said: VPS (2x dedicated CPU (Gold 6140), 8GB DDR4, 80GB MVMe, DDoS) for my Python projects (€65/year).

Which host is this with?

sahjanivishal

@Daniel15 said:

@frog said: VPS (2x dedicated CPU (Gold 6140), 8GB DDR4, 80GB MVMe, DDoS) for my Python projects (€65/year).

Which host is this with?

Seems like PHP-Friends Schnupperspecial 2021

Daniel15

• ArchiveTeam Warrior: ArchiveTeam runs a bunch of archival projects archiving stuff all over the web. For example, they archived Geocities when it was shutting down, and more recently they archived a big chunk of Yahoo Answers. The Warrior project lets you help them out by providing bandwidth. You can choose which project to work on, or just work on their current focus (if some major site is going to shut down soon, they generally focus everyone on archiving its contents). It's a Docker container that's pretty easy to set up.
• Huginn: Automation, kinda like IFTTT but with a UI that's not as good. For example, you can use it to scrape a HTML page and get an email or push notification whenever something changes. Can be useful for monitoring out-of-stock items.
• Web hosting. Configure Nginx yourself for something lightweight. Some hosts provide DirectAdmin licenses for free - install DirectAdmin and offer hosting to your friends and family.
• Personal VPN
• Plex: I use it with my own FLAC CD rips. Plexamp is quite nice
• Sentry: Tracks errors and performance of your apps
• Bitwarden
• Seafile
• Mailcow: Email
• FreshRSS: RSS feed reader. RIP Google Reader
• Kill the Newsletter: Converts email newsletters into RSS feeds
• TheLounge: web based IRC client. Keeps you connected while you're away (like a bouncer). Can send push notifications to your phone for new messages or when you're mentioned.
• Jenkins: build server for code. Get a good CI (Continuous Integration) system running for your projects.

ArchiveTeam Warrior is a great use for idling VPSes.

frog

@Daniel15 said:

@frog said: VPS (2x dedicated CPU (Gold 6140), 8GB DDR4, 80GB MVMe, DDoS) for my Python projects (€65/year).

Which host is this with?

https://php-friends.de/vserver-ssd/vserver-schnupperspecial-2021-nvme

Levi

Endless YAB'ing on cron.

xuezhai

vpn
emby sever
air2 wireless download

skyshine

minio, nextcloud, privatebin, gitea, wp blog, image hosting. etc... As a developer, I will also use it to experiment with the code Of cource , include vpn

trycatchthis

Is nextcloud free?

Also what do you use minio for?

blackeye

@trycatchthis said:
Is nextcloud free?

Also what do you use minio for?

Nextcloud is free

Minio for object storage

trycatchthis

@blackeye said:

@trycatchthis said:
Is nextcloud free?

Also what do you use minio for?

Nextcloud is free

Minio for object storage

Will minio distribute an object across a cluster of VPSs?

WebProject

@frog said:
Webhosting + bots.

This Black Friday I got

• 2x small VPS with free DirectAdmin (€40/year)
• VPS (2x dedicated CPU (Gold 6140), 8GB DDR4, 80GB MVMe, DDoS) for my Python projects (€65/year).
• 1 TB free backup. (€1.25 Setup)

All inside the EU, so I can get GDPR compliant.

Just beware that some big corporate companies are not GDPR compliant, based on fact that they do use 3rd party company in India to outsource the helpdesk and think it’s ok to share customers data outside of UK/EU.

KermEd

I have 4x linux we are using for multiplayer game development as dev boxes (virmach)

I have 3x windows, at a more reliable provider, hosting some of our more advanced BaaS for some of our games, experiences and portals (NFO)

And another 2 or 3 mixed ones sitting idle.

I suspect I have a dozen or so other ones I'm no longer monitoring (hostodo, gullo and such)

Oh and some giant 64GB from OVH I am just waiting to expire. I think there's 4 months left on that one.

jokotan

@Daniel15 said:

Judging by the list you are still reading a huge amount of info, participate here in discussions a lot.... Can you teach me please how do you find time for all this and the most important thing is how you make money to rent all if this servers :-)

Daniel15

@jokotan said: Can you teach me please how do you find time for all this

I wonder the same thing 🤣

I don't have nearly enough free time as I used to when I was younger - A lot of stuff I have set up on my VPSes is from many years ago. I've got a VPS with BuyVM that I've had for close to 10 years now (if you include the old OpenVZ I used before the transition to KVM). I'm going to migrate to a different provider eventually but I'm kinda scared to find out how many places I've hard-coded the IP of that VPS.

@jokotan said: the most important thing is how you make money to rent all if this servers :-)

This is the flip side to "I don't have nearly enough free time as I used to". I work at a big tech company, so I've got some money to spare for things like this

plus I have a small side income from one of my sites (it merged into a much larger site and they pay me a license fee every month to use my code). My budget for "servers and other internet stuff" comes from that.

I'm planning to cancel my most expensive one eventually (BuyVM $15/month) to save a bit of money

uzerhode

idling and switching ip now and then because i am from the biggest intranet in the world.

shuhhhhhh, admin is coming

eris

Allow easy testing and breaking things...

Setting up an LXC VPS takes 5 seconds.. Install Bare metal Dedicated server 10 min

vyas11

@jokotan said:

@Daniel15 said:

Judging by the list you are still reading a huge amount of info, participate here in discussions a lot.... Can you teach me please how do you find time for all this and the most important thing is how you make money to rent all if this servers :-)

Selling plasma is another way to make money. Though it may be frowned upon by some. Including united federation