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MetalVPS Fedora Rawhide Shell Accounts, VPSes, Containers, And Chroots!
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
dnfpackage 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!
Clueless™ administrator with no technical background and with "limited technical skills. . . ." 😀 @Not_Oles frequently messes up! 😱
@Not_Oles is especially clueless™ about Debian, Fedora, and all other OSes. 🤗
Sometimes trusted MetalVPSians might or might not get sudo. 🙈🙉🙊
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. 🆕
MetalVPS has no onboarding and no knowledge base. ♒︎
Account delivery might take awhile! 😴
Intended especially for computer learning and fun! 🤑
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! 💥 At any random second @Not_Oles or maybe you might reinstall the Node! 🤦♂️
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. 🤔
MetalVPS Neighbors are expected both to monitor and to contribute to this thread. 🍔
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!
MetalVPS is an indie project of @Not_Oles a/k/a Tom Miller a/k/a the clueless™ guy. 🥰
MetalVPS is not a project of Hetzner, Low End Spirit, Low End Talk, Low End Box, NodeSeek, or FreeVPS.org. 👨💻
Thanks!
Tom gets a lot of help from the friendly MetalVPSians and from many other friends. 
Comments
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Hi @warmingforg! Wrong thread! That won't get you anything here. But thanks for trying, anyway!
Oops! I forgot to post the network-speed.xyz from August 29, 2023.
And the yabs from August 30, 2023.
@Not_Oles I'd like to know the cost of getting an unmanaged bare metal with you would be
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.
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
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.
Hi again @jackalblood!
leitbogioro seems like a great guy, 💖 and he surely has put a lot of work into his script! 🤩
Here's the script from the last time I used it.
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
@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.
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.
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
@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...
Hi @jackalblood!
Sorry for the late reply. I'm just seeing this now. I must have missed a notification.
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.
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.
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
Sure! I'm actually looking for someone. Please email your resume and three references. Thanks! Best wishes! Tom
Cheers Tom I've fired off an email to them.
References........... @emgh maybe?
Other than that theres my dad and peko i guess
@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.
yes
@Not_Oles Resume has been mailed. Please let me know if you need anything else, thanks!
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...