Free Los Angeles KVM VPS, 2 vCores, 2 GB ECC RAM, 80 GB SSD, 100 Mbps

Manoj2

I want to try

TheOnlyDK

Hola Tom!

Not_Oles

@telosity said:
I am Gerry. I'd love a free VPS. I'll run a Mumble server on it; light duty for Amateur Radio use.

Hi Gerry! 73! All gone. Sorry.

Not_Oles

@Manoj2 said:
I want to try

Hi @Manoj2! All gone. Sorry. . . .

Not_Oles

@TheOnlyDK said:
Hola Tom!

Hola DK! Howgozit?

wikyawan

hi, Waqas here, wiky for short,
I am interested but i am new to community,
VPS : Try to test for hosting email server to get hands on experience in hosting mail server for myself.

Not_Oles

Sorry @wikyawan! All the VPSes have been assigned. . . .

Not_Oles

Progress report from our server. Things have been pretty quiet.

top - 14:58:32 up 5 days, 14:16,  1 user,  load average: 0.12, 0.21, 0.18
Tasks: 186 total,   2 running, 184 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s):  1.6 us,  0.2 sy,  0.0 ni, 96.6 id,  0.1 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st 
MiB Mem :  15816.2 total,    170.9 free,  14814.9 used,   1116.9 buff/cache     
MiB Swap:  16384.0 total,  15531.2 free,    852.8 used.   1001.3 avail Mem 

    PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND           
  45505 libvirt+  20   0 4093704   2.1g  11180 S   8.6  13.4      7,50 qemu-system-x86   
   4886 libvirt+  20   0 3048012 949444  10496 S   3.0   5.9 121:13.74 qemu-system-x86   
   4832 libvirt+  20   0 3389172   2.1g   9844 S   2.6  13.5 113:32.44 qemu-system-x86   
   1354 libvirt+  20   0 4282500   2.1g  11504 S   2.0  13.5 178:22.91 qemu-system-x86   
  24928 libvirt+  20   0 3279672   1.9g  10476 S   1.3  12.2 124:15.48 qemu-system-x86   
   1121 libvirt+  20   0 3159000   1.1g  11332 S   1.0   7.1  82:13.48 qemu-system-x86   
   1219 libvirt+  20   0 2997924   1.4g  10192 S   1.0   9.3  96:39.01 qemu-system-x86   
   1068 libvirt+  20   0 3090332   1.6g  13648 S   0.7  10.1  59:00.96 qemu-system-x86   
   4782 libvirt+  20   0 2985304 855776   9756 S   0.3   5.3 104:01.74 qemu-system-x86   
   4789 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.3   0.0   1:02.71 vhost-4782        
   4839 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.3   0.0   3:21.86 vhost-4832        
  85670 root      20   0       0      0      0 I   0.3   0.0   0:09.38 kworker/7:2-even+ 
 117240 root      20   0   11636   4972   3072 R   0.3   0.0   0:00.09 top               

Not_Oles

Progress on the test VPS on our server. FOSSBilling is installed. Here are screenshots of the initial customer panel and the initial admin panel. Thanks to @fmxm for kindly donating our server and to everyone at FOSSBilling!

fmxm

@Not_Oles said:
Progress on the test VPS on our server. FOSSBilling is installed. Here are screenshots of the initial customer panel and the initial admin panel. Thanks to @fmxm for kindly donating our server and to everyone at FOSSBilling!

It looks so cool!

pcbb

Hello I’m Leo. A personal vps user.
I would be absolutely thrilled to utilize it! I would want to run on it: to run minor, automated tasks or scripts that assist in my operational efficiency or data processing.
Examples Simple Cron Jobs For scheduled data fetches or cleanups. And maybe to securely store and synchronize configuration files, scripts, and any critical data necessary for my operations, ensuring redundancy and accessibility. I might use something like Nextcloud for a more comprehensive personal cloud solution, or simply use rsync over SSH for secure file transfers and backups.

Best wish!

Not_Oles

@pcbb Sorry! All gone. Maybe next time. Best wishes!

Fubukibox

Hi @Not_Oles can you restart my vps, i might have crashed my vps since i can't ssh into my server since i was tinkering around with my docker-compose.yml file and ig it ate up the ram preventing me from doing anything in the terminal. Thanks

Fubukibox

nvm, docker was acting up

lbyan

Hellow, I'm lbyan. Can I request a vps to create a halo blog and some docker projects? For example, some personal projects whois back-end queries

Not_Oles

Hi @ibyan! Sorry to say that all the available VPSes have been delivered. Best wishes!

Not_Oles

@Fubukibox

Would you kindly check your VM again, please? Thanks!

I can restart your VM if you want. Or you can do it.

Tom

@Everyone Here's an example of top output and also the Qemu command that libvirt uses to run a KVM VPS. The -name guest=vmXXX in the command allows us to identify the VPS as probably assigned to @Fubukibox.

    PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND           
  45505 libvirt+  20   0 4110096   2.1g  11180 S 105.6  13.5     10,35 qemu-system-x86  

root@xxxxxx:~# ps aux | grep 45505
libvirt+   45505 11.2 13.4 4110096 2185688 ?     Sl   Jul18 637:17 /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -name guest=vmXXX,debug-threads=on -S -object {"qom-type":"secret","id":"masterKey0","format":"raw","file":"/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-14-vm5/master-key.aes"} -machine pc-q35-7.2,usb=off,vmport=off,dump-guest-core=off,memory-backend=pc.ram -accel kvm -cpu host,migratable=on -m 2048 -object {"qom-type":"memory-backend-ram","id":"pc.ram","size":2147483648} -overcommit mem-lock=off -smp 2,sockets=1,dies=1,cores=2,threads=1 -uuid 45e1eff8-a709-4bb6-86d7-276a6f87ae86 -display none -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,fd=56,server=on,wait=off -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc,driftfix=slew -global kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=delay -no-hpet -no-shutdown -global ICH9-LPC.disable_s3=1 -global ICH9-LPC.disable_s4=1 -boot strict=on -device {"driver":"pcie-root-port","port":16,"chassis":1,"id":"pci.1","bus":"pcie.0","multifunction":true,"addr":"0x2"} -device {"driver":"pcie-root-port","port":17,"chassis":2,"id":"pci.2","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x2.0x1"} -device {"driver":"pcie-root-port","port":18,"chassis":3,"id":"pci.3","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x2.0x2"} -device {"driver":"pcie-root-port","port":19,"chassis":4,"id":"pci.4","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x2.0x3"} -device {"driver":"pcie-root-port","port":20,"chassis":5,"id":"pci.5","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x2.0x4"} -device {"driver":"pcie-root-port","port":21,"chassis":6,"id":"pci.6","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x2.0x5"} -device {"driver":"pcie-root-port","port":22,"chassis":7,"id":"pci.7","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x2.0x6"} -device {"driver":"qemu-xhci","p2":15,"p3":15,"id":"usb","bus":"pci.2","addr":"0x0"} -device {"driver":"virtio-serial-pci","id":"virtio-serial0","bus":"pci.3","addr":"0x0"} -blockdev {"driver":"file","filename":"/home/vm1-clone3.qcow2","aio":"native","node-name":"libvirt-2-storage","cache":{"direct":true,"no-flush":false},"auto-read-only":true,"discard":"unmap"} -blockdev {"node-name":"libvirt-2-format","read-only":false,"cache":{"direct":true,"no-flush":false},"driver":"qcow2","file":"libvirt-2-storage","backing":null} -device {"driver":"virtio-blk-pci","bus":"pci.4","addr":"0x0","drive":"libvirt-2-format","id":"virtio-disk0","bootindex":1,"write-cache":"on"} -blockdev {"driver":"file","filename":"/home/debian-12.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso","node-name":"libvirt-1-storage","auto-read-only":true,"discard":"unmap"} -blockdev {"node-name":"libvirt-1-format","read-only":true,"driver":"raw","file":"libvirt-1-storage"} -device {"driver":"ide-cd","bus":"ide.0","drive":"libvirt-1-format","id":"sata0-0-0","bootindex":2} -netdev {"type":"tap","fd":"57","vhost":true,"vhostfd":"76","id":"hostnet0"} -device {"driver":"virtio-net-pci","netdev":"hostnet0","id":"net0","mac":"52:54:00:3a:a4:a7","bus":"pci.1","addr":"0x0"} -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device {"driver":"isa-serial","chardev":"charserial0","id":"serial0","index":0} -chardev socket,id=charchannel0,fd=55,server=on,wait=off -device {"driver":"virtserialport","bus":"virtio-serial0.0","nr":1,"chardev":"charchannel0","id":"channel0","name":"org.qemu.guest_agent.0"} -device {"driver":"usb-tablet","id":"input0","bus":"usb.0","port":"1"} -audiodev {"id":"audio1","driver":"none"} -device {"driver":"qxl-vga","id":"video0","max_outputs":1,"ram_size":67108864,"vram_size":67108864,"vram64_size_mb":0,"vgamem_mb":16,"bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x1"} -device {"driver":"ich9-intel-hda","id":"sound0","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x1b"} -device {"driver":"hda-duplex","id":"sound0-codec0","bus":"sound0.0","cad":0,"audiodev":"audio1"} -device {"driver":"virtio-balloon-pci","id":"balloon0","bus":"pci.5","addr":"0x0"} -object {"qom-type":"rng-random","id":"objrng0","filename":"/dev/urandom"} -device {"driver":"virtio-rng-pci","rng":"objrng0","id":"rng0","bus":"pci.6","addr":"0x0"} -sandbox on,obsolete=deny,elevateprivileges=deny,spawn=deny,resourcecontrol=deny -msg timestamp=on
root       45511  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Jul18   0:00 [kvm-nx-lpage-recovery-45505]
root       45512  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Jul18   0:44 [vhost-45505]
root       45516  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Jul18   0:00 [kvm-pit/45505]
root      124843  0.0  0.0   6340  2112 pts/3    S+   23:31   0:00 grep 45505
root@xxxxxx:~# 

Fubukibox

I did some testing so

• Downloading from google drive caps you between 200-600 KB/s
• Used Windscribe (LA Proxy AS9009) i was able to get 10.2-10.7 MB/s
  I'm guessing the peering between the vps and google is way to far or out of reach it's slow
  I did add 8GB swap to my server and i was able to run more tabs with memory going to swap. Did ran a speed test on fast.com and speedtest.com and got normal speeds (70-95Mbps download and upload) this was al done through the browser (neko through brave)

Fubukibox

@Not_Oles said:
@Fubukibox

Would you kindly check your VM again, please? Thanks!

I can restart your VM if you want. Or you can do it.

Tom

@Everyone Here's an example of top output and also the Qemu command that libvirt uses to run a KVM VPS. The -name guest=vmXXX in the command allows us to identify the VPS as probably assigned to @Fubukibox.

    PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND           
  45505 libvirt+  20   0 4110096   2.1g  11180 S 105.6  13.5     10,35 qemu-system-x86  

root@xxxxxx:~# ps aux | grep 45505
libvirt+   45505 11.2 13.4 4110096 2185688 ?     Sl   Jul18 637:17 /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -name guest=vmXXX,debug-threads=on -S -object {"qom-type":"secret","id":"masterKey0","format":"raw","file":"/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-14-vm5/master-key.aes"} -machine pc-q35-7.2,usb=off,vmport=off,dump-guest-core=off,memory-backend=pc.ram -accel kvm -cpu host,migratable=on -m 2048 -object {"qom-type":"memory-backend-ram","id":"pc.ram","size":2147483648} -overcommit mem-lock=off -smp 2,sockets=1,dies=1,cores=2,threads=1 -uuid 45e1eff8-a709-4bb6-86d7-276a6f87ae86 -display none -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,fd=56,server=on,wait=off -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc,driftfix=slew -global kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=delay -no-hpet -no-shutdown -global ICH9-LPC.disable_s3=1 -global ICH9-LPC.disable_s4=1 -boot strict=on -device {"driver":"pcie-root-port","port":16,"chassis":1,"id":"pci.1","bus":"pcie.0","multifunction":true,"addr":"0x2"} -device {"driver":"pcie-root-port","port":17,"chassis":2,"id":"pci.2","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x2.0x1"} -device {"driver":"pcie-root-port","port":18,"chassis":3,"id":"pci.3","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x2.0x2"} -device {"driver":"pcie-root-port","port":19,"chassis":4,"id":"pci.4","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x2.0x3"} -device {"driver":"pcie-root-port","port":20,"chassis":5,"id":"pci.5","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x2.0x4"} -device {"driver":"pcie-root-port","port":21,"chassis":6,"id":"pci.6","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x2.0x5"} -device {"driver":"pcie-root-port","port":22,"chassis":7,"id":"pci.7","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x2.0x6"} -device {"driver":"qemu-xhci","p2":15,"p3":15,"id":"usb","bus":"pci.2","addr":"0x0"} -device {"driver":"virtio-serial-pci","id":"virtio-serial0","bus":"pci.3","addr":"0x0"} -blockdev {"driver":"file","filename":"/home/vm1-clone3.qcow2","aio":"native","node-name":"libvirt-2-storage","cache":{"direct":true,"no-flush":false},"auto-read-only":true,"discard":"unmap"} -blockdev {"node-name":"libvirt-2-format","read-only":false,"cache":{"direct":true,"no-flush":false},"driver":"qcow2","file":"libvirt-2-storage","backing":null} -device {"driver":"virtio-blk-pci","bus":"pci.4","addr":"0x0","drive":"libvirt-2-format","id":"virtio-disk0","bootindex":1,"write-cache":"on"} -blockdev {"driver":"file","filename":"/home/debian-12.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso","node-name":"libvirt-1-storage","auto-read-only":true,"discard":"unmap"} -blockdev {"node-name":"libvirt-1-format","read-only":true,"driver":"raw","file":"libvirt-1-storage"} -device {"driver":"ide-cd","bus":"ide.0","drive":"libvirt-1-format","id":"sata0-0-0","bootindex":2} -netdev {"type":"tap","fd":"57","vhost":true,"vhostfd":"76","id":"hostnet0"} -device {"driver":"virtio-net-pci","netdev":"hostnet0","id":"net0","mac":"52:54:00:3a:a4:a7","bus":"pci.1","addr":"0x0"} -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device {"driver":"isa-serial","chardev":"charserial0","id":"serial0","index":0} -chardev socket,id=charchannel0,fd=55,server=on,wait=off -device {"driver":"virtserialport","bus":"virtio-serial0.0","nr":1,"chardev":"charchannel0","id":"channel0","name":"org.qemu.guest_agent.0"} -device {"driver":"usb-tablet","id":"input0","bus":"usb.0","port":"1"} -audiodev {"id":"audio1","driver":"none"} -device {"driver":"qxl-vga","id":"video0","max_outputs":1,"ram_size":67108864,"vram_size":67108864,"vram64_size_mb":0,"vgamem_mb":16,"bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x1"} -device {"driver":"ich9-intel-hda","id":"sound0","bus":"pcie.0","addr":"0x1b"} -device {"driver":"hda-duplex","id":"sound0-codec0","bus":"sound0.0","cad":0,"audiodev":"audio1"} -device {"driver":"virtio-balloon-pci","id":"balloon0","bus":"pci.5","addr":"0x0"} -object {"qom-type":"rng-random","id":"objrng0","filename":"/dev/urandom"} -device {"driver":"virtio-rng-pci","rng":"objrng0","id":"rng0","bus":"pci.6","addr":"0x0"} -sandbox on,obsolete=deny,elevateprivileges=deny,spawn=deny,resourcecontrol=deny -msg timestamp=on
root       45511  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Jul18   0:00 [kvm-nx-lpage-recovery-45505]
root       45512  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Jul18   0:44 [vhost-45505]
root       45516  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Jul18   0:00 [kvm-pit/45505]
root      124843  0.0  0.0   6340  2112 pts/3    S+   23:31   0:00 grep 45505
root@xxxxxx:~# 

It's fine, docker just lagged my ssh when i was testing with neko. I did manage to fix it without crashing the server. i don't need a reboot atm but thanks

Not_Oles

@Fubukibox According to top process 45505 still is running about 100% processor utilization. Is it okay to reboot your VPS? If not, what else do you suggest? thanks!

Fubukibox

@Not_Oles said:
@Fubukibox According to top process 45505 still is running about 100% processor utilization. Is it okay to reboot your VPS? If not, what else do you suggest? thanks!

Oh, im running neko atm but i can turn it off right now. It's fine since i can reboot my vps but other then that the server is running fine. It's just a docker issue i had a few hours before almost crashed the entire vps when testing around my docker-compose.yml (the container that runs neko) file that i managed to fix with swap memory. Other then that, im p much good. I don't need to reboot now but when i do i will just reboot the vps myself. Thank you

etotakeo

Good stuff, support it, can it be used as a monitoring machine?

Not_Oles

@Fubukibox Thanks for your reply! top on the node tells me that your VPS has stopped running 100% processor. Now it's moving every few seconds between about 40% and about 10%. I think this CPU usage is okay, especially because everybody else's VPSes are pretty quiet. If I see the sustained 100% usage again, I will let you know. Best wishes!

Not_Oles

@etotakeo Hi! Yes a few guys are using their VPSes to run monitors. Too bad there aren't any more of this server's VPSes to be given out. Maybe some provider will give me another server before too long, and so there might be more free VPSes. Thanks again to @fmxm for this nice server! Best wishes!

Fubukibox

@Not_Oles said:
@Fubukibox Thanks for your reply! top on the node tells me that your VPS has stopped running 100% processor. Now it's moving every few seconds between about 40% and about 10%. I think this CPU usage is okay, especially because everybody else's VPSes are pretty quiet. If I see the sustained 100% usage again, I will let you know. Best wishes!

I have hetrixtools installed on the server and i can send you a link through DM since that's what i use to check my server other then useing htop or btop

BasToTheMax

@Starnberg said:
Hi,

I would use the VPS to set up an NTP server to contribute to the NTP Pool project. I found that a personal instance with just one core and 1GB memory was getting overwhelmed by 6Mbit/s peak traffic in the US zone.

Also, I would run a RIPE Atlas probe to support Internet traffic research.

A third application would be non-public head-less screen-snapping in support of monitoring the NTP server function.

I also would like to run a Snowflake proxy for the Tor project.

Apart from those specific tasks, I would use the resources for any day-to-day tasks and projects that require a host exposed to the Internet, e.g., test new versions of NTP software and proposed patches. E.g., I would be curious to get rs-ntpd with its NTPv5 capability up and running and use it for testing and experimenting (my current nodes are either multi-homed, or get their time from a local reference clock, neither of which is currently supported by rs-ntpd).

I'm curious, how many queries per second was your 1 core vps getting? (The one with 6 Mbit/s peak traffic)

judy

@Not_Oles said:
@kkwwll

Thanks for the information you posted. I am unaware of any problems specifically associated with any of the scripts you mentioned.

What I was seeing on the Node, though, was a processor running at 100% for an hour, and that processor was being used by your VPS.

Do any of those scripts typically run longer than one hour?

I think, when there is an issue, something should be done, because, if a second issue occurs, then the two issues together might be a disaster. That's why I "pre-emptively" stopped your VPS.

I don't see running a processor at 100% for a little while as an issue worth mentioning. But people who want to do something like compile for several hours ought to post here so we know what's happening. Same with high network or high file I/O.

I restarted your VPS. CPU usage seems minimal. But, when you get back in, and if you rerun the test scripts, please check to make sure there is no "stuck" process causing continuous high CPU output. That's happened to me.

Again, sorry for the inconvenience! Good luck!

Best wishes!

Tom

• The repository of the personal homepage is no longer used and has been moved to the organization account
• index.html is at https://github.com/komari-monitor/komari-web

Not_Oles

Great news!

The server has been renewed until September 9. Also, it might be renewed until October 9 at the lastest, but we are not yet sure what will happen after September 9.

Thanks to @fmxm for his wonderful donation and for the renewal!

mhdy

@mhdy said:
My name is mhdy, I will build agents on vps, move some resources, and deploy some small programs

vless-based agents or telegram robots, for example, may be used to build cdns in the future

Not_Oles

Hi @mhdy!

https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4472316/#Comment_4472316

Please note that all the VPSes on this thread's server already are allocated. But there will be other VPSes coming up soon. Please see https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/207877/fossvps-org-is-born/p1