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Make Your Own VPSes From The Command Line At MetalVPS -- Dallas, TX; Fremont, CA; Falkenstein, DE
Advantages
With MetalVPS you can:
enjoy command line shell accounts on multiple nodes.
launch multiple KVM VPSes and LXC containers from your command line shell accounts.
verify, understand, and modify the entire software stack which runs your VPS.
see what's happening on your VPS's node. For example, you can see how many VPSes there are on your node, how many other VPSes besides yours are running, and how your node is performing.
conveniently run a lot of pre-installed software directly on the node. For example, on Darkstar, our Dallas node, there are several graphical desktop systems including KDE and XFCE. Also, command line terminal hackers will find the OpenBSD ksh shell in addition to bash. For the curious, there's Chaitin's Lisp interpreter, MIT's Xv6 Operating System, TCL, and tons more. Plan 9 from Bell Labs is there via plan9port. Docker is installed. There is a 100 GB primary partition for debootstrap, Linux From Scratch, etc. We would love for you to add to Darkstar's resources!
Disadvantages
No warranty. No service level agreement. Not for business use.
For sure you need to make your own backups because MetalVPS doesn't make backups for you.
MetalVPS has no billing panel and no server control panel. It's all command line until you install a GUI or activate whatever pre-installed GUI you want. MetalVPS has no onboarding and no knowledge base.
MetalVPS is ephemeral. It might blow up! We might reinstall the node. Frequent reboots are required for updates. Long running services are discouraged.
Who
With a lot of help from the MetalVPS neighbors, MetalVPS is a 
project of @Not_Oles a/k/a Tom Miller a/k/a the cluelessâ„¢ guy.
As of this writing, there are six MetalVPS neighbors in Dallas of whom four have sudo privileges. The newly added FMT node is available both to existing and to new neighbors. Nobody is using the FMT node as yet.
Most of the MetalVPS neighbors don't log in very often. @Not_Oles visits multiple times every day.
Where
MetalVPS currently has nodes in Dallas, Texas and Fremont, California USA. 🇺🇸
Frequently there are additional nodes. Currently, there is an additional MetalVPS node at Hetzner FSN-1 in Germany. 🇩🇪
Why
Why not? It's fun to play with and learn about servers, operating systems, and the internet. 
How
MetalVPS and the MetalVPS neighbors are awesome!
Today, Darkstar is running the full "everything" version of Slackware64-current. Slackware64-current requires reboots at least every week or ten days for kernel updates.
Today, the HE FMT node is running Debian 11.5. The FSN-1 node is running Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS.
Pricing
MetalVPS costs $20.22 per month. Free or lower cost accounts sometimes are possible. Payments are available via Paypal and Stripe.
What's new
Valgrind is being installed on Darkstar.
Public monitoring via Hetrix Tools.
MetalVPS.com has moved to Oracle Cloud Free Tier.
This month's hilarious mistake: @Not_Oles disabled the ethernet interface in a server's BIOS, and then wondered why there was no connectivity. 🤩
Darkstar Node Specs
Server: HP BL460c G6
CPU: 2 x Xeon L5630. 2 x 4 cores = 8 cores = 16 threads
RAM: 48 GB DDR3 ECC
Hard Drive: 2 x 400GB SAS SSD, Hardware RAID 1
IP Addresses: IPv4/29, IPv6/64
Connection: 1 GBit/s port
Bandwidth: 10 TB
Datacenter: Owned hardware colocated with Level One Servers inside Carrier-1, Dallas, Texas, USA 🇺🇸
FMT Node specs
Server: Intel S2600GZ
CPU: 2 x Xeon E5-2630L v2, 2 x 6 cores = 12 cores = 24 threads
RAM: 32 GB DDR3 ECC (upgrade to 64 GB in process)
Hard Drive: 1 x 500 GB SSD, 2 x 1 TB HDD
IP Addresses: IPv4/28, IPv6/48
Connection: 1 GBit/s port
Bandwidth: Fair use
Datacenter: Hardware rented from Cloudie Networks, LLC inside Hurricane Electric Fremont 2, Fremont, California USA 🇺🇸
FSN1 Node Specs
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3
RAM: 256 GB DDR4 ECC Reg
Hard Drive: 2 x 480 GB Datacenter SSD RAID 0 (fast), 2 x 10 TB Enterprise HDD (not mounted, available)
IP Addresses: IPv4/32, IPv6/64
Connection: 1 GBit/s port
Bandwidth: Fair use
Datacenter: Hardware rented from Hetzner. Located at Hetzner's FSN1 datacenter.
Support
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Email listed on @Not_Oles' LET profile
Phone (US, CA, MX)
LET PM @Not_Oles
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Please contact @Not_Oles.
Thanks very much!
Comments
Offer violates rules:
Only post offers that are less than or equal to $10/month, or equivalent recurring.
If I understand correctly, the rule you cite refers to individual VPSes. What's offered here is a bundle of shell accounts with multiple VPSes.
Best wishes and kindest regards! 🙂
Thats correct.
Then share details of bundle as well including specs of each possible vps that can be created with respective pricing. You are charging customers for a vps.
On providers home page there are only lists of text links to lowendtalk and provider is a "Patron Provider" at LET.
Is "price in title" a rule? It's certainly annoying when it isn't.
Hello Prashant! I hope you are enjoying a lovely day!
Perhaps the details of the bundle are reasonably well specified? In case it's unclear, the bundle consists of shell accounts on up to two, or sometimes three or more nodes.
The specs for VPSes are determined by the various nodes' resources and the needs of other MetalVPSians. For example, the FMT node has an IPv4 /28. Right now, nobody is using the FMT node. As you know, a /28 has 14 useable IPs, of which the node itself is using one. Therefore, a single neighbor could spin up a maximum of 13 VPSes, each with its own IPv4.
Is that so?
Maybe you missed an Easter egg?
Friendly greetings!
Costs of the three nodes:
Darkstar -- $30/month colocation
FMT -- $30/month rental
FSN1 -- €94.70/month rental
Unless I extend it, the FSN1 node will be cancelled on October 11. Probably it will be replaced shortly thereafter, perhaps again at Hetzner.
Best wishes and kindest regards!
Is every VMs created via QEMU command line UI and LXC?
Hi @iamvinh123!
Sorry, this is a necro thread. The offer and the servers discussed here are gone. Happily, there is a new, updated offer involving a new i9-13900 server node at Hetzner which I have been thinking about posting in a new thread.
On the new node, yes, every VM is created by command line. But I suppose some neighbor could install a good open source graphical VM creation tool if he wanted.
Maybe I will post a new offer soon. Thanks for asking!
Best wishes!
Tom