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Free And Premium Bare Metal Servers, VPSes, and Containers From MetalVPS!
Friendly greetings! 🌎🌍
Free VPSes!
Everyone's best friend and favorite Low End Provider, Crunchbits, granted MetalVPS Crunchy, a wonderful US 🇺🇸 dedicated server, free until November 8, 2024! Free Crunchy accounts are currently on pause, but might again become available. Please monitor and comment in the parallel LET Crunchy thread if you are interested in Crunchy.
Besides Crunchy, free VPSes also are available through FreeVPS.org. Please monitor and comment in the parallel LET FreeVPS thread if you are interested in FreeVPS.org.
Premium $7 Per Month VPSes And Containers!
Polonium is a MetalVPS bare metal dedicated server located in Germany. 🇩🇪 All Polonium resources are available for fair use in shell accounts, VPSes, and containers.
- CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) E-2276G CPU @ 3.80GHz
- iGPU VPS passthrough possible, but not yet implemented
- Hardware Cores: 6
- Hardware Threads: 12
- RAM: 2 x 32 GB DDR4 ECC SAMSUNG M391A4G43AB1-CWE
- SWAP: 8 GB ZRAM
- Disks: 2x SSD U.2 NVMe 960 GB SAMSUNG MZQLW960HMJP
- Altroot Partitions: Each disk has 1 x 100GB ext4 non-RAID partition for chroot with debootstrap (debootstrap is installed).
- Root Partition: The two disks share 1 x 1.5TB software RAID 0 ext4 root partition.
- IP Addresses: 1 x IPv4/32; 1 x IPv6/128; 1 x IPv6/64; and 1 x IPv6/48 (HE TunnelBroker.net)
- Bandwidth: 1 Gbps shared, unlimited, fair use
- Location: Falkenstein, Germany 🇩🇪 (FSN1DC11)
- Today's OS: Fedora 40 (Rawhide)
- Monthly Rent Paid By MetalVPS To Polonium's Provider: €33.70
- Current Month-to-Month Rental Term Expires: February 10, 2024
- Yabs and Network-Speed will be posted in this thread.
@Not_Oles doesn't use Polonium very much. As of this writing, nobody else is using Polonium. Thus, considerable excess bare metal server capacity remains. It seems like a good idea to offer this excess bare metal capacity to our LET Community.
MetalVPS charges for Polonium accounts, because, unlike wonderful Crunchy, Polonium isn't free. Polonium herself costs @Not_Oles €33.70 per month. MetalVPS Polonium User Neighbor accounts are available for US$7.00 per month.
If you feel like joining @Not_Oles on Polonium, please take a careful look at the Warnings and at the Terms of Service shown below. How to Sign Up, Pricing, and Support also are covered below.
It would be great to have you on Polonium!
Best wishes! 🌎🌍
Tom
Managed Or Unmanaged Bare Metal Servers!
MetalVPS has additional bare metal servers. Please email @Not_Oles at the address on his LET profile if you want a managed or an unmanaged bare metal server.
Warnings!
Clueless™ administrator @Not_Oles has no "technical background" and only "limited technical skills." 😀 @Not_Oles frequently messes up! 😱
MetalVPS has no billing panel and no server control panel! There are no preinstalled VPSes or containers. It's traditional, bare metal, command line terminal via ssh until you install whatever GUI or Control Panel or VPS or container you want. 🆕
Sometimes trusted MetalVPSians might or might not get sudo, KVM group membership, etc. 🙈🙉🙊
MetalVPS has no onboarding and no knowledge base! ♒︎
Basic set-ups that you quite reasonably might expect to find might not yet have been completed! 🙃
Account delivery might take awhile! 😴
Not for business or production use! Intended especially for computer learning and fun! 🤑
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! Our server might blow up! 💥 Even if our server doesn't literally explode, it's RAID 0! 🤡 YOLO! 💀
At any random second @Not_Oles or maybe you might reinstall the Node! 😸
Other MetalVPSians might see your account name, the processes you are running, and much other information. So, please do not put confidential information on the server. 🤔
Terms Of Service
- Be awesome! Be kind, gentle, friendly, positive, and polite!
- White Hat only!
- Not for business use!
- Not for production use!
- Intended for education and fun!
- Open source software only, both on MetalVPS and for connecting to MetalVPS!
- No Service Level Agreement (SLA)!
- Provider TOS also applies!
Pricing
Polonium Neighbor Shell Account: US$7.00/month
Payment gateways available via Zelle, Paypal, and maybe Stripe.
No payment is due until your Sign Up is accepted, your account is provisioned, and you say that you are 100% satisfied!
How To Sign Up
Please post here in this thread.
Please include
your ed25519 ssh public key;
links to your website, Github or other repo, other online profiles, etc.; and
your use case for Polonium.
Please feel free to include additional items in support of your sign up request.
Support
Please post all new MetalVPS Polonium account requests and all Polonium support requests, comments, and feedback here in this thread. Please also post tutorials explaining your MetalVPS Polonium accomplishments here in this thread or on their own, new LET threads.
LET PMs (personal messages) and emails can be sent to @Not_Oles about items which need privacy. For email, please use the address on @Not_Oles' profile.
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 Crunchbits, Polonium's Provider, 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. Thanks to each and every one! 
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Originally posted -- January 12, 2024
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