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Three Months, Ten Users, Zero Problems: @crunchbits and bashvm Deliver 100%!
As I guess many of you know, @crunchbits gave me a dedicated server in Washington State. @crunchbits made the server free until November 8. I named the server Crunchy.
I decided to give away 4, which later was increased to 8, Crunchy VPSes made with bashvm. Bashvm is an open source set of bash shell scripts from @babywhale that simplifies KVM VPS creation via libvirt, along with IPv6 and firewall management for IPv4 NAT.
The 8 Crunchy VPSes were sold quickly for a one time payment of $1.01 per VPS covering the entire period from March 11 until November 8. That's practically free!
You can still see the offer thread here: MetalVPS at Crunchbits: E3-1245, 2 vCores, 4GB DDR4 ECC RAM, 1000GB SSD RAID 10, 1 Gbps, $1.01 once!
All 8 Crunchy VPSes have been running continuously, in addition to a couple of small VPSes that @subenhon created manually via the command line. I have two test VPSes (currently shut down) and have occasionally run tinyproxy. Recently I started keeping some backup files on Crunchy as well.
Ubuntu and bashvm have handled the few Node updates seamlessly. The bashvm VPSes are set to restart automatically upon reboot.
I have logged in to Crunchy multiple times daily, checking load averages, running vnstat, and sometimes using tools like top or htop.
A couple of days ago, it struck me that Crunchy has been 100% available! There hasn't been even a single issue of which I am aware, nor have any of our Crunchy neighbors reported any problems. I've been particularly pleased with the lack of network issues. A new yabs is posted below.
Based on three months use by ten of us (8 VPS users, @subenhon, and myself), having zero problems is quite impressive! Congratulations to @crunchbits and @babywhale! Thanks again to @crunchbits for wonderful Crunchy! ![]()


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Crunchbits takes a good care of his chicken. Zero downtime here in the last seven months and the network has been very solid.
Are you running FreeBSD? Do you have a dedi or a VPS?
FreeBSD on one yearly, one storage box and one VDS.
Now that's super cool! Congrats!
solid service from crunchbits
this is great news! im glad nobody is having any issues