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MetalVPS at Crunchbits: E3-1245, 2 vCores, 4GB DDR4 ECC RAM, 1000GB SSD RAID 10, 1 Gbps, $1.01 once!
Friendly greetings! 🌎🌍
Everyone's best friend and favorite Low End Provider, Crunchbits, granted MetalVPS Crunchy, a wonderful US 🇺🇸 dedicated server, free until November 8, 2024!
$1.01 Crunchy VPS Until November 8, 2024!
Please see the Crunchy VPS Specifications shown below. Yabs and network-speed also are posted below.
In addition to your VPS, maybe you could get a traditional shell account on the Crunchy Node.
Please read the Limits, Warnings, and the Terms of Service shown below.
How to Sign Up also is covered below, along with Pricing, Support, and FAQ.
Providing awesome Low Enders with wonderful VPSes is a big part of the idea behind this offer. Additionally, MetalVPS and @Not_Oles hope to promote community discussion of server related topics. Thus, beyond the $1.01 payment, active participation in this thread's discussion also is required.
The Boss at Crunchbits said that MetalVPS is "literally the best deal in town!" Thanks to the Boss for his kind words 
and for wonderful Crunchy!
Best wishes! 🌎🌍
Tom
Crunchy VPS Specs
- CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1245 v5 @ 3.50GHz
- Cores: 2 vCores
- RAM: 4 GB DDR4 ECC
- Disk: 1,000 GB SSD RAID 10
- IP Addresses: 1 x NAT IPv4/32; 1 x IPv6/128
- NAT Ports: 10 forwarded ports plus ssh
- Bandwidth: 1 Gbps shared, unlimited, fair use
- Location: Crunchbits, Liberty Lake, WA, USA 🇺🇸
- VPS OS: Debian 12
- VPSes made with: bashvm
- Current Term Expires: November 8, 2024
Limits
Only eight (8) available VPSes!
➡️ Please entirely skip responding to this offer if your account does not have significant, awesome post and comment history within our wonderful
Low End communities. ⬅️➡️ Please respond to this
wonderful Crunchy VPS offer only if you really want to contribute actively to our discussions in this thread. ⬅️
Warnings!
Forever 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, command line terminal via ssh until you install whatever you want. 🆕 You get a juicy VPS into which you can ssh and install whatever Open Source software you want. Maybe you also can get a traditional shell account on Crunchy.
Sometimes trusted MetalVPSians might or might not get sudo on the Node, KVM group membership, etc. Note that @subenhon has Crunchy Node sudo. 🙈🙉🙊
MetalVPS has no onboarding and no knowledge base. ♒︎
Account delivery might take awhile! 😴
Not for business use! Intended especially for computer learning and fun! 🤑
Frequent maintenance reboots are guaranteed! 🌺 VPSes in this offer are set to restart automatically following reboot.
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! 💥 At any random second @Not_Oles or maybe you might reinstall the Node! 😸
Other MetalVPSians probably will see your name, your location, 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!
- Intended for education and fun!
- Active participation in this thrread's discussion is required!
- Open source software only, both on MetalVPS and for connecting to MetalVPS!
- No Service Level Agreement (SLA)!
- No refunds!
- Crunchbits TOS also applies!
Pricing
$1.01 one time until November 8, 2024. This de minimus payment hopefully will discourage abuse.
Paypal payments may be sent to the email address on @Not_Oles' profile. Zelle and Stripe also might work.
Active participation in this thread's server related discussions also is required.
How To Sign Up
Please post here in this thread.
Please include
your ed25519 ssh public key;
link to your website;
links to your Github or other repo, other online profiles, etc.; and
your use case for Crunchy.
Please feel free to include additional items in your sign up request.
Support
Please post all new MetalVPS account requests and all support requests, comments, and feedback here in this thread. Please also post tutorials explaining your Crunchy accomplishments here in this thread or on their own, new LET threads.
LET PMs (personal messages) can be sent to @Not_Oles about items which need privacy.
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, Hetzner, Low End Spirit, Low End Talk, Low End Box, NodeSeek, or FreeVPS.org. 👨💻
FAQ
- How did @Not_Oles get a free server from Crunchbits?
- Are Custom ISOs and BSD supported at Crunchbits?
Thanks!
Thanks to Crunchbits for the wonderful Crunchy server! Even more thanks to Crunchbits for caring about every member of our wonderful Low End Community!
Thanks to @babywhale for bashvm!
Tom gets a lot of help from the friendly MetalVPSians and from many other friends. Thanks to each and every one!
Comments
One space already is gone. Only three spaces left!
ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIFW1x6bqtuu9mTyvvR2EJVLnh1kDRHKr5owWFmrmfTF2
endgame.co.za/wazar.org
A little bit about it:
"Endgame Research is a collaborative effort involved in the intersection of freedom advocacy, personal privacy, information security, data preservation, financial independence, and our goal is to ensure the fundamental right to not be known is never undermined."
https://keybase.io/wazar
https://twitter.com/mikewazar
https://github.com/wazar
I plan to use it as a bastion, tailscale node, and SSH jump host for the time being
Dankie @crunchbits @Not_Oles
Good luck
Hi Mike! You are in! Could you please send $1.01 via Paypal to the email address on my profile? Then I will activate your VPS. Might take awhile since I am slow. Let me know, please if you want to be on the Node too. Glad to have you aboard!
Only two spots left!
Sent
Would love a slot on the shell node :--)
Thanks so much
Okay, excellent! Thanks for sending the funds, which I did receive. It's getting a little late here, so I might not provision your VPS until tomorrow. I will also give you an account on the Crunchy Node. More soon! Have a great evening! And thanks again!
ciao
Only one (1) spot left. . . .
Can I have it?
me too
I have a VPS for Triennially. Can i apply for this ? Thanks
I don't read anything. I'm in.
Edit_ I read all, i'm out.
@listerine90 If you are interested, please read the OP again, and please post in the requested form.
@hzhoanglee I certainly remember you! I would love to give you the one remaining available VPS. If you are interested, please read the OP again and please post in the requested form.
@carolboy Sure!
Excellent! Maybe next time!
@Not_Oles
One of my student , he is studying computer science and has financial challenges
If a VPS is still available , he can use for programming practice
I can send more details about him in DM
Thanks
ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIInU1ro2CvRmtleWldIITZETRmvujr4MJgNgeBxSc5YN admin@Kienhttps://kinuseka.us
https://github.com/Kinuseka
Mainly for educational purposes and for developmental testing!
Thanks!
Hi Mike!
I sent you login info via PM. Please let me know if it works.
Hope you enjoy lots of fun!
Thanks and best wishes!
Tom
Thanks to @crunchbit for wonderful Crunchy!
Hi @dev_vps! I will be checking for your DM. Thanks for helping your student! Best! Tom
Hi @listerine90!
Thanks for posting! I took a quick look at your website, at your Github, at your post and comment history here, and at a few other things. I need to meditate on all that I saw, so please give me time to consider.
Best!
Tom
Thanks, again.
Just sent his details.
Thank you for remembering me. I already have my servers, so let the servers for people who needed them
@hzhoanglee Your generosity is much appreciated!
Folks, all four VPSes have been assigned. Maybe it will be possible to make a few more VPSes available in a little while, if after we find Crunchy still mostly idling.
Thanks to @crunchbits for making wonderful Crunchy available!
Thanks to @babywhale for bashvm! 
Amazing.
Hello Guys!
Happy Saturday!
Beautiful Crunchy has been pretty quiet!
So, if nobody minds, and assuming someone wants one, I am thinking about giving out another group of four VPSes as specified in this thread's OP.
@mikewazar What do you think, please?
Tom
Thanks to @crunchbits for beautiful Crunchy!
I say another round is in order!
Got a "yes" on more Neighbors from each of our current Crunchy Neighbors! Also, Crunchy doesn't look especially busy:
So, maybe tomorrow, I will use bashvm to make four more Crunchy VPSes, Specs as per the OP, and then eventually give them out. Might take awhile. Might need a reboot.
If you want a Crunchy VM, please do read the OP, and then please do post here.
Thanks to our wonderful Crunchy Neighbors!
Thanks to @crunchbits for wonderful Crunchy!