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Not_OlesNot_Oles Member, Patron Provider

Friendly greetings! 🌎🌍

MetalVPS Fedora Rawhide Shell Accounts, VPSes, Containers, And Chroots!

MetalVPS gives you a traditional shell account on Radium, our new Fedora Rawhide server at Hetzner FSN1 in Germany. You can use Radium in any awesome way you want. You can work directly in your shell, and you can install your own NAT IPv4 and IPv6 VPSes, containers, or chroots. KVM access and sudo are available.

With a traditional shell account you can see how many neighbors are using the server, some of what they are doing, how hard the server is working, and exactly what software is installed. No worries about overselling! No worries about VPS hypervisor overhead! No worries about old hypervisor versions and old operating system versions!

Rawhide is especially nice for educational, non-production use. Rawhide compiles and distributes kernels right out of Linus Torvalds' Git sources. Most other software in Rawhide's packaging system also tends to be newer, sometimes much newer, than what is packaged in the downstream releases.

Here, from the command line, you can see some of Radium's specifications.

[not_oles@radium ~]$ date -u
Thu Sep 28 06:16:30 PM UTC 2023
[not_oles@radium ~]$ uname -r # Running recent Linux kernel from Git!
6.6.0-0.rc3.20230927git0e945134b680.28.fc40.x86_64
[not_oles@radium ~]$ cat /etc/fedora-release 
Fedora release 40 (Rawhide)
[not_oles@radium ~]$ lscpu | grep "Model name" 
Model name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1275 v5 @ 3.60GHz # Geekbench 6 Single Core Score 1419!
[not_oles@radium ~]$ free -h
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            62Gi       871Mi        61Gi       864Ki       316Mi        61Gi # Radium has 64 GB RAM!
Swap:          8.0Gi          0B       8.0Gi
[not_oles@radium ~]$ sudo dmidecode | grep DDR
        Type: DDR4
        Type: DDR4 # All four RAM memory modules are DDR4!
        Type: DDR4
        Type: DDR4
[not_oles@radium ~]$ sudo dmidecode | grep Width | grep -v Partition
        Total Width: 72 bits
        Data Width: 64 bits
        Total Width: 72 bits
        Data Width: 64 bits 
        Total Width: 72 bits # All four RAM memory modules are ECC!
        Data Width: 64 bits
        Total Width: 72 bits
        Data Width: 64 bits
[not_oles@radium ~]$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md127      741G   21G  683G   3% / # RAID 0 for faster NVMe performance!
  [ . . . ]
/dev/nvme1n1p2   98G   24K   93G   1% /altroot0 # Empty partition ready for chroot fun! 
  [ . . . ]
/dev/nvme0n1p2   98G   24K   93G   1% /altroot1 # Another empty partition ready for chroot fun!
  [ . . . ]
[not_oles@radium ~]$

What's New On Radium?

  • Newly installed dnf package groups "C Development Tools and Libraries", "Development Tools", and "Development Libraries"!

  • Locally compiled Python from Github!

[not_oles@radium ~]$ which python # Locally compiled is the default.
/usr/local/bin/python
[not_oles@radium ~]$ python -V # Locally compiled python is version 3.13.0a0.
Python 3.13.0a0
[not_oles@radium ~]$ /usr/bin/python -V # Version 3.12.0rc3 was installed by Rawhide's package manager.
Python 3.12.0rc3
[not_oles@radium ~]$

Warnings!

  • Cluelessβ„’ administrator with no technical background and with "limited technical skills. . . ." πŸ˜€ @Not_Oles frequently messes up! 😱

  • @Not_Oles is especially cluelessβ„’ about Debian, Fedora, and all other OSes. πŸ€—

  • Sometimes trusted MetalVPSians might or might not get sudo. πŸ™ˆπŸ™‰πŸ™Š

  • MetalVPS has no billing panel and no server control panel. It's all command line via ssh until you install the GUI that you want. πŸ†•

  • MetalVPS has no onboarding and no knowledge base. β™’οΈŽ

  • Account delivery might take awhile! 😴

  • Intended especially for computer learning and fun! πŸ€‘

  • Daily or sometimes even more frequent maintenance reboots are guaranteed! 🌺

  • Please make your own redundant, offsite backups! It's easy to download or sync or clone your backup to a safe place. Please also make sure that you actually can restore from your backups! Please think of your MetalVPS account as ephemeral! Your server might blow up! πŸ’₯ At any random second @Not_Oles or maybe you might reinstall the Node! πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

  • Other MetalVPSians can see your account name, some of the processes you are running, and much other information. So, please do not put confidential information on the server. πŸ€”

  • MetalVPS Neighbors are expected both to monitor and to contribute to this thread. πŸ”

Terms Of Service

  • Be awesome!
  • White Hat only!
  • Radium is not for business use!
  • Radium is intended for education and fun!
  • 100% open source software only!
  • Hetzner TOS also applies!

Equipment Cost And Ownership

  • Rent paid to Hetzner for Radium is €26.70 per month (VAT inapplicable outside of the EU). That's approximately US$28.34 per month.

Pricing

  • Radium shell account + VPS: US$7.00 per month, recurring if continued, but no commitment to continue.

  • Dedicated, bare metal servers: Custom per server pricing. Can be fully managed, unmanaged, or anything in between.

  • MetalVPS might give free accounts to those in need. So, please don't hesitate to ask.

Payment

  • Payment methods are available in US dollars via Zelle or via Paypal (and maybe also via Stripe). Maybe we could figure out an additional payment method if there is some other way you want to pay.

  • No payment is due until your shell account is set up and you are 100% satisfied.

How To Sign Up

  • Please post here in this thread. Please include your ed25519 ssh public key.

More About MetalVPS!

Thanks!

Tom gets a lot of help from the friendly MetalVPSians and from many other friends. <3

Comments

  • Not_Oles Not_Oles Not_Oles Not_Oles

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  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Member, Patron Provider

    Hi @warmingforg! Wrong thread! That won't get you anything here. But thanks for trying, anyway! :)

  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Member, Patron Provider
    edited September 2023

    Oops! I forgot to post the network-speed.xyz from August 29, 2023.

    ---------------------------- network-speed.xyz ----------------------------
          A simple script to test network performance using speedtest-cli      
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Version            : v2023.08.28
     Global Speedtest   : wget -qO- network-speed.xyz | bash
     Region Speedtest   : wget -qO- network-speed.xyz | bash -s -- -r <region>
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Basic System Info
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     CPU Model          : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1275 v5 @ 3.60GHz
     CPU Cores          : 8 @ 2099.999 MHz
     CPU Cache          : 8192 KB
     AES-NI             : βœ” Enabled
     VM-x/AMD-V         : βœ” Enabled
     Total Disk         : 936.5 GB (2.9 GB Used)
     Total RAM          : 62.6 GB (876.3 MB Used)
     Total Swap         : 8.0 GB (0 Used)
     System uptime      : 0 days, 10 hour 13 min
     Load average       : 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
     OS                 : Fedora release 40 (Rawhide)
     Arch               : x86_64 (64 Bit)
     Kernel             : 6.5.0-57.fc40.x86_64
     Virtualization     : NONE
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Basic Network Info
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Primary Network    : IPv4
     ISP                : Hetzner Online GmbH
     ASN                : AS24940 Hetzner Online GmbH
     Host               : Hetzner
     Location           : Falkenstein, Saxony-SN, Germany
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Speedtest.net (Region: GLOBAL)
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Location         Latency     Loss    DL Speed       UP Speed       Server     
    
     ISP: Hetzner Online 
    
     Nearest          8.19 ms     0.0%    941.19 Mbps    933.53 Mbps    Netcom Kassel Gesellschaft fΓΌr Telekommunikation mbH - Kassel 
    
     Kochi, IN        159.73 ms   0.0%    721.27 Mbps    554.10 Mbps    Asianet Broadband - Cochin 
     Bangalore, IN    132.91 ms   0.0%    911.80 Mbps    504.34 Mbps    Bharti Airtel Ltd - Bangalore 
     Chennai, IN      149.52 ms   N/A     702.13 Mbps    580.14 Mbps    Jio - Chennai 
     Mumbai, IN       129.51 ms   0.0%    848.48 Mbps    659.42 Mbps    i3D.net - Mumbai 
     Delhi, IN        148.31 ms   0.0%    610.54 Mbps    599.35 Mbps    Tata Teleservices Ltd - New Delhi 
    
     Seattle, US      177.80 ms   0.0%    840.28 Mbps    509.46 Mbps    DediPath - Seattle, WA 
     Los Angeles, US  152.30 ms   0.0%    700.96 Mbps    426.14 Mbps    ReliableSite Hosting - Los Angeles, CA 
     Dallas, US       119.13 ms   0.0%    766.23 Mbps    705.90 Mbps    Hivelocity - Dallas, TX 
     Miami, US        130.34 ms   0.0%    898.79 Mbps    660.82 Mbps    AT&T - Miami, FL 
     New York, US     85.19 ms    0.0%    963.95 Mbps    904.54 Mbps    GSL Networks - New York, NY 
     Toronto, CA      106.87 ms   0.0%    876.33 Mbps    783.18 Mbps    Rogers - Toronto, ON 
    
     London, UK       23.91 ms    0.0%    948.88 Mbps    933.27 Mbps    VeloxServ Communications - London 
     Amsterdam, NL    11.63 ms    0.0%    942.32 Mbps    934.38 Mbps    Clouvider Ltd - Amsterdam 
     Paris, FR        24.31 ms    N/A     950.76 Mbps    934.40 Mbps    Axione - Paris 
     Frankfurt, DE    5.64 ms     0.0%    941.57 Mbps    933.25 Mbps    23M GmbH - Frankfurt am Main 
     Warsaw, PL       43.74 ms    0.0%    943.09 Mbps    914.66 Mbps    UPC Polska - Warszawa 
     Bucharest, RO    32.23 ms    0.0%    942.85 Mbps    921.50 Mbps    Vodafone Romania Fixed – Bucharest - Bucharest 
    
     Jeddah, KSA      66.45 ms    0.0%    941.61 Mbps    926.40 Mbps    Saudi Telecom Company 
     Dubai, AE        129.46 ms   0.0%    893.28 Mbps    670.48 Mbps    du - Dubai  
     Fujairah, AE     113.83 ms   0.0%    960.00 Mbps    735.78 Mbps    ETISALAT-UAE - Fujairah 
    
     Tokyo, JP        247.20 ms   N/A     649.30 Mbps    283.63 Mbps    fdcservers.net - Tokyo 
     Shenyang, CU-CN  367.36 ms   22.3%   65.95 Mbps     0.34 Mbps      Unicom - Shenyang 
     Nanjing, CT-CN   235.37 ms   10.1%   474.83 Mbps    1.00 Mbps      China Telecom JiangSu 5G - Nanjing 
     Hong Kong, HKG   157.00 ms   N/A     879.75 Mbps    564.06 Mbps    STC - Hong Kong 
     Singapore, SG    164.67 ms   0.0%    532.97 Mbps    554.58 Mbps    i3D.net - Singapore 
     Jakarta, ID      177.79 ms   0.0%    634.67 Mbps    321.24 Mbps    PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia - Jakarta 
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Avg DL Speed       : 795.70 Mbps
     Avg UL Speed       : 646.29 Mbps
    
     Total DL Data      : 29.74 GB
     Total UL Data      : 23.58 GB
     Total Data         : 53.33 GB
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Duration           : 13 min 8 sec
     System Time        : 29/08/2023 - 04:44:39 UTC
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Unable to share result online - There is some issue with the online uploader.
     Result stored locally in /home/not_oles/network-speed.txt
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    [not_oles@e3 ~]$ 
    
  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Member, Patron Provider
    edited September 2023

    And the yabs from August 30, 2023.

    [not_oles@rawhide ~]$ curl -sL yabs.sh | bash
    # ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
    #              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
    #                     v2023-04-23                    #
    # https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
    # ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
    
    Wed Aug 30 02:12:22 AM UTC 2023
    
    Basic System Information:
    ---------------------------------
    Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 6 minutes
    Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1275 v5 @ 3.60GHz
    CPU cores  : 8 @ 3600.000 MHz
    AES-NI     : βœ” Enabled
    VM-x/AMD-V : βœ” Enabled
    RAM        : 62.6 GiB
    Swap       : 8.0 GiB
    Disk       : 936.5 GiB
    Distro     : Fedora Linux 40 (Rawhide Prerelease)
    Kernel     : 6.5.0-57.fc40.x86_64
    VM Type    : NONE
    IPv4/IPv6  : βœ” Online / βœ” Online
    
    IPv6 Network Information:
    ---------------------------------
    ISP        : Hetzner Online GmbH
    ASN        : AS24940 Hetzner Online GmbH
    Location   : Falkenstein, Saxony (SN)
    Country    : Germany
    
    fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
    ---------------------------------
    Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
      ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
    Read       | 463.66 MB/s (115.9k) | 1.18 GB/s    (18.4k)
    Write      | 464.89 MB/s (116.2k) | 1.18 GB/s    (18.5k)
    Total      | 928.55 MB/s (232.1k) | 2.36 GB/s    (36.9k)
               |                      |                     
    Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
      ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
    Read       | 1.28 GB/s     (2.5k) | 1.13 GB/s     (1.1k)
    Write      | 1.35 GB/s     (2.6k) | 1.20 GB/s     (1.1k)
    Total      | 2.63 GB/s     (5.1k) | 2.34 GB/s     (2.2k)
    
    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
    ---------------------------------
    Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
    -----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
    Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 182 Mbits/sec   | 495 Mbits/sec   | 19.9 ms        
    Scaleway        | Paris, FR (10G)           | 925 Mbits/sec   | 920 Mbits/sec   | 21.3 ms        
    NovoServe       | North Holland, NL (40G)   | 931 Mbits/sec   | 936 Mbits/sec   | 12.1 ms        
    Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 882 Mbits/sec   | 644 Mbits/sec   | 93.5 ms        
    Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 46.7 Mbits/sec  | 92.8 Mbits/sec  | 85.4 ms        
    Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 30.6 Mbits/sec  | busy            | 129 ms         
    Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 25.9 Mbits/sec  | 39.5 Mbits/sec  | 154 ms        
    
    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
    ---------------------------------
    Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
    -----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
    Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 168 Mbits/sec   | 309 Mbits/sec   | 19.9 ms        
    Scaleway        | Paris, FR (10G)           | 913 Mbits/sec   | 921 Mbits/sec   | 21.7 ms        
    NovoServe       | North Holland, NL (40G)   | busy            | busy            | 12.1 ms        
    Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | busy            | 655 Mbits/sec   | 93.6 ms        
    Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 46.0 Mbits/sec  | 74.1 Mbits/sec  | 85.3 ms        
    Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 31.1 Mbits/sec  | 42.5 Mbits/sec  | 124 ms         
    Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 25.9 Mbits/sec  | 34.6 Mbits/sec  | 154 ms     
    
    Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
    ---------------------------------
    Test            | Value                         
                    |                               
    Single Core     | 1419                          
    Multi Core      | 4692                          
    Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/2434899
    
    YABS completed in 13 min 13 sec
    [not_oles@rawhide ~]$ 
    
  • @Not_Oles I'd like to know the cost of getting an unmanaged bare metal with you would be

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  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Member, Patron Provider

    Hi @jackalblood! What server do you want? Thanks! Tom

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  • @Not_Oles said:
    Hi @jackalblood! What server do you want? Thanks! Tom

    Hiya Tom, nothing huge something around E31230 and 32 GB RAM I'd like a single ssd with HDD for practice with bcache deployment.

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  • Also sorry to bother you with this but I saw in a previous post you used this InstallNET.sh script in the past. https://github.com/leitbogioro/Tools I'd like to give that a try also but documentation is lacking would you have a moment to talk about its usage in a hetzner environment. Thank you

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  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Member, Patron Provider

    @jackalblood said:

    @Not_Oles said:
    Hi @jackalblood! What server do you want? Thanks! Tom

    Hiya Tom, nothing huge something around E31230 and 32 GB RAM I'd like a single ssd with HDD for practice with bcache deployment.

    Maybe it might be a little tricky to find an available Hetzner Server Auction E3 configuration with only a single SSD plus a single HDD. Might two SSDs and one HDD be okay? Maybe also with 64 GB RAM?

    Is there a vendor with servers available in the single SSD plus single HDD configuration you want?

    Haha, I had to go look up bcache and bcachefs. I read the bcachefs Wikipedia article. And I found out that bcachefs recently was pulled into Linux-Next. Please see also the commit messages.

    Reading about Linux-Next made me want to try running it. :)

    Thanks @jackalblood!

    Tom

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  • @Not_Oles said:

    @jackalblood said:

    @Not_Oles said:
    Hi @jackalblood! What server do you want? Thanks! Tom

    Hiya Tom, nothing huge something around E31230 and 32 GB RAM I'd like a single ssd with HDD for practice with bcache deployment.

    Maybe it might be a little tricky to find an available Hetzner Server Auction E3 configuration with only a single SSD plus a single HDD. Might two SSDs and one HDD be okay? Maybe also with 64 GB RAM?

    Is there a vendor with servers available in the single SSD plus single HDD configuration you want?

    Haha, I had to go look up bcache and bcachefs. I read the bcachefs Wikipedia article. And I found out that bcachefs recently was pulled into Linux-Next. Please see also the commit messages.

    Reading about Linux-Next made me want to try running it. :)

    Thanks @jackalblood!

    Tom

    That would be fantastic if I can afford the spec. It may actually be better as I hear the bigger the cache the better it goes. Thanks ever so much for going thr extra mile I'll preceed to read that.

    Cheers Tom hoping we can work something out I'd be happy to share my findings also.

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  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Member, Patron Provider

    @jackalblood said:
    Also sorry to bother you with this but I saw in a previous post you used this InstallNET.sh script in the past. https://github.com/leitbogioro/Tools I'd like to give that a try also but documentation is lacking would you have a moment to talk about its usage in a hetzner environment. Thank you

    Hi again @jackalblood!

    leitbogioro seems like a great guy, πŸ’– and he surely has put a lot of work into his script! 🀩

    Here's the script from the last time I used it.

    chronos@penguin:~/servers/hetzner/i9-2$ ls -l InstallNET.sh 
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 chronos chronos 202996 Jul 16 14:04 InstallNET.sh
    chronos@penguin:~/servers/hetzner/i9-2$ wc InstallNET.sh 
      3522  23608 202996 InstallNET.sh
    chronos@penguin:~/servers/hetzner/i9-2$ 
    

    What kinds of changes need to be made to improve leitbofioro's documentation?

    Haha, before I ran the script I skimmed (I can't truthfully say "read") all 3500 lines. Pretty good documentation to have the code freely available!

    I remember using the script to install Alpine, Fedora, Debian and other OSes on Hetzner dedis. I did not try Windows. Everything worked great as far as I could tell. I posted quite a bit over on Nodeseek.com about this series of tests. My posts are in English together with Google Translate's Chinese. I don't have links handy. Maybe Google can help you find my posts in leitbogioro's threads on Nodeseek. I'm Not-Oles over there because Nodeseek's account creation system didn't seem to like the underscore in Not_Oles. :) If you have trouble finding the posts, please let me know, and I will take a look.

    Best!

    Tom

  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Member, Patron Provider

    @jackalblood May I please ask the status of your discussions with Fiberstate? Did they get the server specs you wanted back in stock?

  • @Not_Oles said:
    @jackalblood May I please ask the status of your discussions with Fiberstate? Did they get the server specs you wanted back in stock?

    Sadly not I've been checking every day so far in the hopes they would get one in but I don't think it's very likely.

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  • @Not_Oles said:

    @jackalblood said:
    Also sorry to bother you with this but I saw in a previous post you used this InstallNET.sh script in the past. https://github.com/leitbogioro/Tools I'd like to give that a try also but documentation is lacking would you have a moment to talk about its usage in a hetzner environment. Thank you

    Hi again @jackalblood!

    leitbogioro seems like a great guy, πŸ’– and he surely has put a lot of work into his script! 🀩

    Here's the script from the last time I used it.

    chronos@penguin:~/servers/hetzner/i9-2$ ls -l InstallNET.sh 
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 chronos chronos 202996 Jul 16 14:04 InstallNET.sh
    chronos@penguin:~/servers/hetzner/i9-2$ wc InstallNET.sh 
      3522  23608 202996 InstallNET.sh
    chronos@penguin:~/servers/hetzner/i9-2$ 
    

    What kinds of changes need to be made to improve leitbofioro's documentation?

    Haha, before I ran the script I skimmed (I can't truthfully say "read") all 3500 lines. Pretty good documentation to have the code freely available!

    I remember using the script to install Alpine, Fedora, Debian and other OSes on Hetzner dedis. I did not try Windows. Everything worked great as far as I could tell. I posted quite a bit over on Nodeseek.com about this series of tests. My posts are in English together with Google Translate's Chinese. I don't have links handy. Maybe Google can help you find my posts in leitbogioro's threads on Nodeseek. I'm Not-Oles over there because Nodeseek's account creation system didn't seem to like the underscore in Not_Oles. :) If you have trouble finding the posts, please let me know, and I will take a look.

    Best!

    Tom

    It was more understanding the function of the script for example I assume it would be run during rescue but without actually testing it myself I wasn't sure on prerequisites and the like.

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  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Member, Patron Provider

    @jackalblood said:

    @Not_Oles said:
    @jackalblood May I please ask the status of your discussions with Fiberstate? Did they get the server specs you wanted back in stock?

    Sadly not I've been checking every day so far in the hopes they would get one in but I don't think it's very likely.

    Yes, I just checked myself, and I also got Out-of-stock. archive.org link

  • @Not_Oles said:

    @jackalblood said:

    @Not_Oles said:
    @jackalblood May I please ask the status of your discussions with Fiberstate? Did they get the server specs you wanted back in stock?

    Sadly not I've been checking every day so far in the hopes they would get one in but I don't think it's very likely.

    Yes, I just checked myself, and I also got Out-of-stock. archive.org link

    Yea I watched it about a month I was hoping to add a HDD later for the same use case but obviously I didn't get very far yet

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  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Member, Patron Provider

    @jackalblood

    I took a quick look at Hetzner's server auction. My procedure was to set the search options to at least three disks and scan for E3. I quickly found a result, shown below. "Fixed price" means that the price, unlike most other auction servers, will not continue to decrease.

    €31.70 monthly Fixed price
    CPU Intel Xeon E3-1246V3
    RAM 32 GB
    Drives
    2 x 2.0 TB Enterprise HDD
    2 x 256 GB SSD
    Location #FSN1-DC13

    Server AuctionID: 2153190
    Traffic: unlimited
    4 x RAM 8192 MB DDR3
    2 x HDD SATA 2,0 TB Enterprise
    2 x SSD SATA 256 GB

    Support services
    replacement of defective hardware
    free email support
    free phone support

    My experience suggests that it can be a good idea to look around the auction a little more. Also, it's a good idea to price a newer server from the current offerings. For example, the lowest price Ryzen 5 3600 server from the AX Line is the AX-41 at €37.30 with two HDDs or with two NVMes. Right now there is no setup fee on the AX-41. So the small difference in the E3 vs Ryzen pricing might mean that the Ryzen is a better deal for only a little more.

    Once you get a Hetzner account set up, it usually takes about 14 minutes from server order to server login credential delivery. Sometimes it's longer.

    Do you want to try setting up your own account at Hetzner?

    Do you want to look very carefully at the server auction prices while keeping the AX-41 price in mind?

    Something else?

    Best!

    Tom

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  • @Not_Oles said:
    @jackalblood

    I took a quick look at Hetzner's server auction. My procedure was to set the search options to at least three disks and scan for E3. I quickly found a result, shown below. "Fixed price" means that the price, unlike most other auction servers, will not continue to decrease.

    €31.70 monthly Fixed price
    CPU Intel Xeon E3-1246V3
    RAM 32 GB
    Drives
    2 x 2.0 TB Enterprise HDD
    2 x 256 GB SSD
    Location #FSN1-DC13

    Server AuctionID: 2153190
    Traffic: unlimited
    4 x RAM 8192 MB DDR3
    2 x HDD SATA 2,0 TB Enterprise
    2 x SSD SATA 256 GB

    Support services
    replacement of defective hardware
    free email support
    free phone support

    My experience suggests that it can be a good idea to look around the auction a little more. Also, it's a good idea to price a newer server from the current offerings. For example, the lowest price Ryzen 5 3600 server from the AX Line is the AX-41 at €37.30 with two HDDs or with two NVMes. Right now there is no setup fee on the AX-41. So the small difference in the E3 vs Ryzen pricing might mean that the Ryzen is a better deal for only a little more.

    Once you get a Hetzner account set up, it usually takes about 14 minutes from server order to server login credential delivery. Sometimes it's longer.

    Do you want to try setting up your own account at Hetzner?

    Do you want to look very carefully at the server auction prices while keeping the AX-41 price in mind?

    Something else?

    Best!

    Tom

    Hiya Tom

    I'm not dead set on the E3 as the main requirement CPU and RAM shouldn't be much of a problem.

    my main need is the multiple drives and a higher ratio of HDD storage over SSD to ensure bcache works.

    What do you think the best course of action would be in this case do you think something cheaper can be found ?

    I'll keep an eye on the auction myself I have tried to open an hetzner account without success as my ID is out of date...

  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Member, Patron Provider

    Hi @jackalblood!

    Sorry for the late reply. I'm just seeing this now. I must have missed a notification.

    do you think something cheaper can be found ?

    Maybe a little bit cheaper plus also maybe with a little bit newer and faster CPU and DDR4 RAM. Or maybe a little bit more expensive, but enough newer, faster, bigger, etc., to make it worth a small cost increase.

    I have tried to open an hetzner account without success as my ID is out of date...

    Seems easy to fix?

    Best!

    Tom

  • @Not_Oles said:
    Hi @jackalblood!

    Sorry for the late reply. I'm just seeing this now. I must have missed a notification.

    do you think something cheaper can be found ?

    Maybe a little bit cheaper plus also maybe with a little bit newer and faster CPU and DDR4 RAM. Or maybe a little bit more expensive, but enough newer, faster, bigger, etc., to make it worth a small cost increase.

    I have tried to open an hetzner account without success as my ID is out of date...

    Seems easy to fix?

    Best!

    Tom

    Keeping an eye on the auctions at the moment some nice 8TB i7s might work for my use case.

    You'd think so wouldn't you but due to my living situation it turns out it's not such an easy fix but it's one of them things you just got to live with temporarily.

    Thanks so much Tom for your help.

  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Member, Patron Provider
    edited October 2023

    @jackalblood said: due to my living situation it turns out it's not such an easy fix

    Maybe try visiting https://www.hetzner.com/support-form

    Explain the issue with your id. Ask for help getting your account established. If you still have trouble, please ask me again. Best wishes!

  • Can I apply as a system administrator :p

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  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Member, Patron Provider

    @Otus9051 said:
    Can I apply as a system administrator :p

    Sure! I'm actually looking for someone. Please email your resume and three references. Thanks! Best wishes! Tom

  • @Not_Oles said:

    @jackalblood said: due to my living situation it turns out it's not such an easy fix

    Maybe try visiting https://www.hetzner.com/support-form

    Explain the issue with your id. Ask for help getting your account established. If you still have trouble, please ask me again. Best wishes!

    Cheers Tom I've fired off an email to them.

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  • @Not_Oles said:

    @Otus9051 said:
    Can I apply as a system administrator :p

    Sure! I'm actually looking for someone. Please email your resume and three references. Thanks! Best wishes! Tom

    References........... @emgh maybe?
    Other than that theres my dad and peko i guess :p

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  • emghemgh Member
    edited October 2023

    @Otus9051 said:

    @Not_Oles said:

    @Otus9051 said:
    Can I apply as a system administrator :p

    Sure! I'm actually looking for someone. Please email your resume and three references. Thanks! Best wishes! Tom

    References........... @emgh maybe?
    Other than that theres my dad and peko i guess :p

    @Otus9051 is funny, has a decent amount of knowledge but is also crazy lazy

    I can provide one reference from me personally, one from my company and one from the company in which I'm hired. That's 3 references

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  • Otus9051Otus9051 Member
    edited October 2023

    @emgh said:

    @Otus9051 said:

    @Not_Oles said:

    @Otus9051 said:
    Can I apply as a system administrator :p

    Sure! I'm actually looking for someone. Please email your resume and three references. Thanks! Best wishes! Tom

    References........... @emgh maybe?
    Other than that theres my dad and peko i guess :p

    @Otus9051 is funny, has a decent amount of knowledge but is also crazy lazy

    I can provide one reference from me personally, one from my company and one from the company in which I'm hired. That's 3 references

    HEY I DO THE WORK ON TIME!!! (or was that a pun on my surname)

    for tom: ill email you the resume within today, im out right now, family member sick.

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  • @Otus9051 said: or was that a pun on my surname

    yes

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  • @Not_Oles Resume has been mailed. Please let me know if you need anything else, thanks!

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  • @emgh said:

    @Otus9051 said: or was that a pun on my surname

    yes

    Lemme clarify this because I felt like it, "Sen", which is my surname, means "late" in Swedish! I did not know this until @emgh had told me when I first worked with him haha...

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