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Los Angeles clients!
Are you remembering that the Los Angeles node is scheduled to expire on November 10, nine days from now?
We do not expect the LA node to be renewed. Thanks to @fmxm for his kind donation!
Also, FOSSVPS does not yet have a replacement node in the US.
Options include requesting a replacement VPS in Bucharest or London/Fareham/UK. Thanks to Hosteroid and Onlyservers for their kind donations!
If I or FOSSVPS can help, please let us know by posting here.
Thanks and best wishes!
Tom
Hello!
There is ticket #467501 pending with @alexhost to transfer the Chisinau Node and its account to @msatt. Once the server and the account are transferred, @msatt will give notice and wait a week before wiping the server and reinstalling with Proxmox.
The LA node expiration is coming up on November 10. The UK and Bucharest nodes already have been transferred and installed with Proxmox and free VPSes are being offered to the community in this thread, above.
Thanks to all donors for their kind donations. Thanks to @msatt for kindly taking over FOSSVPS. Thanks to @shayneeo, @igctt, and @pixia1234 for joining the FOSSVPS volunteer staff.
Best wishes!
Tom
Hi!
I really like my server running :P Do you mean that you can clone the VM to UK/Bucharest or will that also be an installation from scratch?
If so, how long are you expecting the downtime for Chisinau to last?
Is there any difference in specifications between UK and Bucharest now that both are on Proxmox?
@zejjnt Tom will be making an announcement very soon.
To answer your specific questions, the standard in all locations is NAT and IPv6. Chisinau (mol1) TBC as it has more IPv4 and Less IPv6 so with justification IPv4 is possible. Standard VM is 2C/4G/64G.
Downtime during switchover scheduled 24 hours.
As mentioned (for privacy), you will need to re-register.
Hope that helps
Mike
OK, I do need a public v4. Do I wait for the announcement or should I contact someone now?
Chisinau Rebuild Schedule and Reapplication Procedure
Dear Chisinau Clients,
As requested, Alexhost has kindly transferred the Chisinau server and the FOSSVPS account on their control panel to @msatt.
The wipe and reinstall to Proxmox of the Chisinau Node is expected to begin on Monday 10th of November starting at ~10:00 GMT.
Please back up your VPS, because everything will be gone!
Chisinau Clients are requested by @msatt to please re-apply in order to continue using the Chisinau Node. To re-apply, please PM @msatt if you are on LET or LES. If you are on Nodeseek, please PM @typhoon.
Thanks to Alexhost, all our Chisinau Clients, @msatt, and the new FOSSVPS Team. I have had a lot of fun getting the Chhisinau node and FOSSVPS started!
Always best wishes!
Tom
PM's sent to LET clients on Chisinau, if I have missed anyone please PM me.
There is a lot going on.....
Mike
Just checked in on the LA server. Looks like everything is running smoothly, which is great!
Only three days more!
Thanks to @fmxm for his kind donation!
Thanks to all the LA users. 
@msatt, I'd like to apply a free VPS in the Chisinau for my Vaultwarden, Casdoor and MissKey.
My SSH Keys Here: https://github.com/ffha.keys
My GitHub: https://github.com/ffha
My Website (In Chinese): https://www.largerworld.cc
@fthasdd - PM sent
@msatt Will you be contacting us by e-mail when the new HV is ready for use?
UPDATE
Chisinau (now called mol1) rebuild is going through some final tests, much faster than expected with big thanks to Alexhost
Emails will be sent to all that completed our registration form.
The standard configuration is dual stack NAT + IPv6, 2vCPU, 4GiB, 64GiB
If you did have a static IPv4 send me a PM with your VM ID (from the email) and IP address and I will do my best to get you set up, but understand I won't be able to do this immediately. I will need a rest, this has taken a lot of planning.....
Anyway have fun
Mike
Sent a PM regarding this
Congrats!
I’ve received the email notification. Thanks again to FOSSVPS volunteers and donors like AlexHost. I hope your project can benefit more people in the future.@msatt @Not_Oles
Well that was quite a day...
Just to give you a brief outline of what was going on.
Alexhost generously donated one of their dedicated servers to FOSSVPS in Chisinau (Moldova). It has
40 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz (2 Sockets), 2.2TiB hdd and 251GiB RAM.
Rough timeline
10:00 GMT started the installation of Proxmox.
10:50 Started the configuration for IPs, firewall, file share, email etc.
14:00 Launched the first test VM
16:00 26 Client VMs built with static IPs or NAT plus IPv6 and various OS, sent email configs
During those times were client support messages and a bit of lunch
Whole process would have been much faster if we used our new registration system (more details on that to follow). The old registration system meant it was lots of copying, pasting and checking.
Hopefully in the next few days as things 'settle down', we will introduce the new registration system (making my job a lot easier). So anyone developing Open Source software can currently get a FREE server in the UK, Bucharest or Moldova.
Any providers reading this, if you have an old dedi which is just sitting in a shelf doing nothing why not make a short term donation and we would all
you for it.
Started fiddling around with my machine now and everything seems to be working as it should, thank you for all your work and help @msatt !
Also once again thank you to @Not_Oles & @alexhost
@zejjnt Great to hear and still more 'features' coming....
If anyone else would like a free VM and you are producing open source code just send me a PM. Why wait till Black Friday and pay someone, when we are here !!!!
Hello, @msatt i would like to have a free VM/VPS if you still have one available. Thanks @Not_Oles @fmxm for the vps in Los Angeles (San Jose) before it was gone a few days ago! Ipv6 is fine but if it has an ipv4 address that would be nice!
Debain 13 for the OS
The services i am going to run are nginx, copyparty https://github.com/9001/copyparty , wireguard. to (run my own like mini storage server)
i can PM the ssh key
for the location im fine with Bucharest and Chisinau
Thanks @alexhost @msatt @Not_Oles 💖
@Fubukibox PM sent.
Welcome to FOSSVPS
Things are progressing....
You can now check the status of the nodes (using hetrix tools) at status.fossvps.org
Still plenty of 'availability' for a free VPS if you are an Open Source developer, just send me a PM. Choose between Bucharest, Moldova or the UK and get 2C, 4GiB and 64GiB HDD with NAT and IPv6 FREE all courtesy of our great donors Hosteroid, Alexhost and Onlyservers.
Sorry about that.
Don't know what was wrong with me when I posted...
https://status.fossvps.org
I am an open-source developer and maintain several projects on GitHub:
https://github.com/AhmadKh-p
My primary goal is to host and develop my open-source projects, experiment with Linux server administration, Docker-based deployments, and improve my DevOps skills.
In addition, I am currently working on a computer vision and machine learning project focused on translating sign language into text and speech to help improve communication accessibility for deaf and mute individuals. The VPS would be used for hosting related services, APIs, testing environments, documentation, and development tools.
I also maintain personal infrastructure for secure remote access and administration of my systems using open-source networking technologies.
I understand and agree with the FOSSVPS rules:
Thank you for providing this valuable community resource. I would be grateful for the opportunity to participate and contribute to the open-source ecosystem.
Best regards,
Ahmad
@IYL afraid you have only just joined LET
This is an old thread - best catch up first.
Mike