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All your OpenVZ 6 stuff goes here 
I have:
- 3x 2.6.32-042stab145.3 / 256 MB RAM (no swap) / 5 GB HDD running Fedora 22 which is in use daily (the provider can't move it to KVM without losing the IPv4 address), since June 2014
- 5x 3.10.0-1160.105.1.vz7.214.3 / 128 MB RAM + 128 MB SWAP, 5 GB HDD running Debian 8, also in daily use since September 2013
- 4.9.0 (wow!) / 128 MB RAM + 64 MB Swap / 12 GB HDD OpenVZ running Debian 9
And a bunch of older routers, such as:
- Netgear WNR3500L: 8 MB ROM / 64 MB RAM running 2.6.22.19 kernel FreshTomato, which despite the kernel version gets userspace updates every 3-6 months, thanks to the enthusiastic developer!
For the old VPS with outdated distro with public-facing daemons I either manually check security bulletins (via RSS) for the software and compile newer version + updated libs for that distro myself, or use underlying distro only as a base to run the other newer one: Apline or Entware.
There's still a bunch of low-cost ARMv7 / MIPS system-on-chips with 32 MB or at most 64 MB in-chip RAM produced to this day due to cost efficiency, that's why running Linux on a memory-constrained machine with highly-optimized kernel and software would be still in demand for the next ~10 years.
The kernel occasionally receives patches to shrink the file size and memory consumption of internal structures to make it work under low memory constraints. The most hardcore project of the current day I know is Linux 6.1 running on 8 MB RAM with around 2.2 MB memory usable for userspace programs: https://x.com/ReimuNotMoe/status/1787146317594321241
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Lowest end
4x
1 Core E5-2690
256 MB Ram (did get upgraded from the original 128!)
20 GB
@ryanarp - Catalysthost
Picked them up in 2016 and I've been with him ever since. Ryan's an awesome guy and one of the most rock solid providers I'm a client of.
We don't have any VZ6 left.
We have VZ7 from @Cam and @natvps_uk that are set to cancel before end of year.
Oldest system is BeagleBone Black Rev C (2014 model).
It's running Debian 11 and regularly updated.
It still serves as the main entrance into the house network.
We also have a temperature sensor with firmware flashed in 2017.
It's still streaming data to our Losant dashboard, but needs manual reset every few weeks.
Oldest running OVZ since ~2014 with @RamNode.
128MB RAM that got 'upgraded' to 192MB, 80GB SSD cached HDD that got downgraded to HDD only, then 'upgraded' to 15GB pure SSD and 500GB Traffic @ 1GBit/s for $15/yr.
FWIW, it has been chugging along just fine - running my VPN, SOCKS & HTTP(s) proxy with no major outages for a better part of the decade. The node is probably overloaded as monthly apt updates take a LOOOOONG time to complete.
Now, if only they'd phase OVZ out and move to KVM on newer hardware, that'd be great. (I know, its not happening. They'd rather kick us out and get new customers willing to pay their current prices
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I have been using AlphaVPS to host my blog for years. However, I am currently waiting for @AlexBarakov to upgrade from OpenVZ to KVM.
One of my older VZ boxes:
Edit — the WAF/CloudFlare is sensitive to certain Linux commands. Couldn’t post above w/o removing this:
unbeatable lowend. is slowly developing into a provider that you would rather expect to find in italy.
Same here a big fan of Linux old router:
These tiny devices are so stylish as daily toy for almost any networking missions.
I have a box still running
2.6.32-openvz-042stab111.11-amd64. Stuck on Ubuntu 16.04 with ESM. Provider just refuses to update their shit. I got it like last year, so it's not like deprecated and waiting to kick off the customers once the server dies, they're still selling it lmao.I also have multiple 256MB KVM in some special locations (Czechia and Slovakia). They're running Debian 11/12 with an image I had to dd into the disk that I created on another server.
LowHosting 1€ per month is so cool! Low price but not low end.
64MB (later upgraded to 96MB) OpenVZ from securedragon since 2012. Running DNS, smtpd & wireguard and some custom scripts. Still has ~ 88MB free
oldest box i have to date
@unluckyllama now that's old. Kernel from 2011, scratch an inch and I'll gain you kernel code execution.
My lowest end VPS is probably a Neoverse-N1 running Ubuntu 24.04
yep. I've had it for a long ass time. don't really use it so it sits idle
I had a windows 95 colo in Detroit, Michigan, Colo detroit (40/month) using a Core 2 Duo E8400 (upgraded in 2007), 4gb, 80gb Intel sata drive (the one you manually run a tool to trim it) until a month ago, moved everything to a hosted linux dedicated server, much better...
I've got one similar running BIND, needed to attach a flash drive for storage to be able to install it though. I also enabled the WiFi on it for as AP for my analog clocks.
256 MB KVM 10 GB HDD @ 10Mbit port, running alpine v3.20 based config kernel -virt variant and remove some unnecessary module and recompile it back. OOM kill kernel setup, so it require me to use mkimage and dd it to drive (even use trimmed kernel one).
For now it only host status page and some networking tools just in case my VPS got borked.
Interesting topic, but I do not keep any super old system.
Most outdated would be an OVZ7 VPS with 2 GB of RAM running on an E5-2697 v2 with 6.1.0 kernel.
I keep it only for testing and because it was given to me for free.
By LET standards, most would say that this is an average tier VPS, but CPU is more than a decade old at this point, and I do not buy containerized VPS anyway.
I once asked the hosting provider to make me an OpenVZ machine to test the bug in OpenVZ kernel, and reported back a week later that I've done all the tests and the machine could be terminated.
That was in 2014. It's still running. I never paid for it. It doesn't show in the panel anymore, so I can't even reboot it, but it's still there!
I know its IP address by heart and use it for various network tests when I need a spare machine.
It's running 3.16 OpenVZ kernel right now though, and no so low-end: 512 MB RAM + 512 MB SWAP, 20 G Disk.
After few years of inactivity on this forum... I replaced all my old servers with fresh ones this year.
I still have this server, which I've been renewing for 5 years.
Not very powerful but very stable
It's just low price, but very stable.
yup, they've been great
Black firday 2016 $4.80 USD a year
Uptime : 283 days, 17 hours, 27 minutes
Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 v2 @ 2.20GHz
CPU cores : 1 @ 2600.012 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 128.0 MiB
Swap : 0.0 KiB
Disk : 19.6 GiB
Distro : Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Kernel : 4.19.0
VM Type : OPENVZ
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline
Leaseweb GP Micro Singapore
1 vCPU
1 GB RAM
40 GB
4 TB BW @1 Gbps
Since 2015, S$2.75/month, and current price is S$4.96/month.
If there is a provider that can offer slightly better specifications for the same price, I'm interested.