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YABS says hello to its new little friend.
Frankfurt.
Tried with 2 debit cards, Master and Visa both declined.
same here.
yabs with gb6:
I got accepted, was informed about it today, only a short while ago, and deployed mine in Miami (you have a limited selection).
Ubuntu is not allowed (complains that it requires 1GB), so I used Debian 11.
Do they not allow changing SSH port ?
On Debian they enable UFW by default, and only allow port 22 on v4/v6. Just create a new firewall entry.
Hey! That's brilliant... Why do I keep fiddling with fail2ban filters when this could have saved me so much time...
Now here's hoping they don't block port 25... We'll see soon, as virtualmin is still installing...
Feels very fast though.
That worked. Thanks for the tip.
Congratulations to you guys who got approved. I haven't received an approval email yet but anyway I must say the 1 year limit is a serious turn down.
Of course from Vultr business point on view this is a clever move: They'll collect thousands of thousands of new quality registrations by real potential clients with their credit card on file before revealing there's a time limit and without even guaranteeing a free VPS - and then expect all those people to become paying clients someday "because their cards are already there" whether they approve them or not.
Did not get approved so far. Well this just puts me off from using Vultr even for pay. Congratulations to them for the great idea of such promo, I guess.
You could try installing Ubuntu from CD if it's just the Vultr panel blocking you.
But you’ve already installed the superior choice...
Is i386 an option in the panel?
You're making pretty negative assumptions. AWS has a Free Tier which is a very similar program. Do you think Amazon's Free Tier is just a giant snare to catch people at day 366 with an autorenewal? Of course not, and neither is this. It's Vultr wanting to get its name more broadly known.
I think it's an interesting play. It seems like they've got oceans of bandwidth to giveaway, and IPs as well, and you can jam a lot of these on one server so the hardware costs aren't that great. There's abuse to deal with but I think compared to the big clouds or DO, Vultr is less known and this will make a splash.
And something more to think about...
Perhaps Vultr has purchased some marketing data - and there is tons out there - and marries it with your registration data. You've given them name, address, email, etc. and there are services that will provide a ton of data about you from public records, social media, etc. Then they hire some data science interns to build analytics that says "these kinds of people are more likely to buy a VM" which is then your "weighted score," and wah-lah, a free VPS program with high ROI.
I haven't played with that in a long time...or was it webmin? Or both? I forget.
There should have been full disclosure including time limits before stripping people of all their data. With AWS Free Tier you know in advance the period is one year, that's different.
People should make conscious decisions.
Virtualmin is clunky and feels old but is a workhorse doing what is supposed to do with fewer bugs and exploits than others.
Webmin, yeah, i tried some 20 years ago, maybe more then i wondered wtf am I wasting resources for?
Perhaps, but the end result is not much different.
I have read this thread and people experiences and it all looks like patched together in a late evening meeting and many rough edges remain. A 1-2-3 people shop might have come up with this, but for someone like Vultr, even as is not DO, still looks unprofessional.
Virtualmin includes Webmin. You can't have Virtualmin without Webmin, but you can have Webmin without Virtualmin
Allowed bandwidth/traffic shows
0 GBfor me (Seattle). Does that mean that I will be charged for all traffic usage? If so, this is not free.https://imgur.com/pqFvPCJ
https://imgur.com/bEcfwlV
Every account gets 2TB of free bandwidth. The free instances pull from that.
Thanks. Yeah I do see
2 TBFree Credits Earned on the Billing page. https://imgur.com/XmSg9pHI'm still waiting for mine, long time client of theirs. Idk if they will let me pass hahaha
For those granted Free Tier access, these 3 locations were the options with Free available:
0.5 GB RAM, 10GB SSD, choice of OS. Regular Cloud Compute. One IPv4 and one IPv6 included, both public.
what are ppl setting theirs up for? looking for some ideas
Idling.
yabs!Jokes aside, my use will be a sandbox box (testing my apps on Alma 9 before upgrading my prod boxes), then maybe a monitoring server or a VPN node. Or, maybe it will be just
yabsand idle if I'm lazy.Yes, but in this case Webmin is a tool for Virtualmin, more or less, while "standalone" would be a tool for me and it sucks at that. Or, at least, it was. I had to learn a new tool to do things I could have done faster without it all the while wasting some resources.
To be fair, like Arkas, in a way, I like an instance doing only one specific thing, therefore, Webmin, which could manage tons of things is a clear waste (even as it is modular) which maybe would have not been in other situations.
Looks like Port 25 is in fact blocked.
From my var/log/mail.log
"connect to alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[64.233.186.26]:25: Connection timed out"
Hmmmm... I wonder if they will grant an exemption.
EDIT: Yes, they have a special page to request port 25 unblock:
https://my.vultr.com/billing/unblock_smtp_port/
just got admitted to free tier within 24 hours
i did:
is it monthly or lifetime?