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iTz_EthqnHD · December 2024

Do yall have any cool projects you'd like to show off? I know you guys do some pretty cool things!

krepowo · December 2024

i want to use it for my discord bot

Stationswift · December 2024

I'd probably end up hosting a combo of game servers and maybe a website or two

Izax · December 2024

VPS is for idling, nothing else.

DrNutella · December 2024

Happy holidays all

iTz_EthqnHD · December 2024

@DrNutella said:
Happy holidays all

Back at you!

k4zz · December 2024

snowflake application

plumberg · December 2024

@MrEd said:
I don't like idling the servers, but sometimes that happens. However, I host a company-wide event for programmers each year, and last two events I did run participants code in isolated docker environment. I would definitely include the free server into as a node for testing the code during the event.

Sounds interesting
Could you share briefly about the setup? Would love to setup something similar.

plumberg · December 2024

@iTz_EthqnHD said:
Do yall have any cool projects you'd like to show off? I know you guys do some pretty cool things!

I know I can idle the best.
I infact Do green idling. Power off my server (vps and dedis) sometimes.

I care about the nature

MrEd · December 2024

@plumberg said:

@MrEd said:
I don't like idling the servers, but sometimes that happens. However, I host a company-wide event for programmers each year, and last two events I did run participants code in isolated docker environment. I would definitely include the free server into as a node for testing the code during the event.

Sounds interesting
Could you share briefly about the setup? Would love to setup something similar.

I have several VMs as "test" nodes that have docker and my own application running. I also have a RabbitMQ accessible to these VMs. When the team provides the code, I push a message to the MQ and one of the nodes takes the message with the important info (ID, maybe something else if needed). Code is compiled in docker container with network disabled, logs of compile are sent back using MQ. If conpile is succesfull, I run the code also with network disabled. The resulta are logged back via MQ. So having more nodes available are always good, less time to wait in case code is submitted in short period from multiple teams

AlanV · December 2024

Using it as a game server or something like TS

plumberg · December 2024

@MrEd said:

@plumberg said:

@MrEd said:
I don't like idling the servers, but sometimes that happens. However, I host a company-wide event for programmers each year, and last two events I did run participants code in isolated docker environment. I would definitely include the free server into as a node for testing the code during the event.

Sounds interesting
Could you share briefly about the setup? Would love to setup something similar.

I have several VMs as "test" nodes that have docker and my own application running. I also have a RabbitMQ accessible to these VMs. When the team provides the code, I push a message to the MQ and one of the nodes takes the message with the important info (ID, maybe something else if needed). Code is compiled in docker container with network disabled, logs of compile are sent back using MQ. If conpile is succesfull, I run the code also with network disabled. The resulta are logged back via MQ. So having more nodes available are always good, less time to wait in case code is submitted in short period from multiple teams

Wow. This is really simple and elegant setup.

Of course more nodes better it is. How many containers you have per node?

When you say your application.. what is it doing?

iTz_EthqnHD · December 2024

I am also interested to hear, @MrEd!

SnakecraftEvan · December 2024

@yoursunny said:

@suyadi92 said:
What type of snake do you have?

Our current snake collection includes an eastern copperhead and a timber rattlesnake.

Stardate 1302.8, San Francisco.

Just as I'm ready to shut the doors of yoursunny summer host sales office and spend the weekend with my snake collection, a customer rushed in.
The customer shouted hurriedly: my storage server in Midwest Eurasia is involucrated, routing announcement is withdrawn, all my family memories are gone, can you help?

I opened my sleepy eyes, downed a bottle of Red Bull, and immediately started helping this customer.
I sent a robot to the garden where her storage server was located, and provisioned a new storage server in our luna location.
Within seconds, the robot found the original server and plugged into its USB port, and her precious data were being cloned to our infrastructure.
At the same time, I was busy engraving a golden key card that contains a private key to decrypt the data.

15 minutes later, data restoration was complete, and I opened up the portal room.
The customer swiped the card, a colorful cloud appeared on the portal.
Inside, there's a faint wall of text:

GO
GO
GO
GO
GO

She hesitated for a moment, muttered a few words like "YABS" and "double bandwidth", and then walked into the portal.
As the cloud settled, she had been teleported to a dedicated black hole, and would live with her loving family for an eternity.

I checked the accounting record, and saw her remain assets in this world consolidated to our company account.
After all, once she entered the black hole, there's no way out, so she wouldn't need those assets anymore.

The end.

This article is published at https://yoursunny.com/t/2021/1302.8/

I did not expect to see something like this in the comments, but I am definitely intrigued 😂

SnakecraftEvan · December 2024

For those who said running a game server, what games did everyone have in mind?

gbzret4d · December 2024

I would let it idle like all of my servers

jgwybbs · December 2024

Great offer. I will use the VPS for runnig my small websites.

MrEd · December 2024

@plumberg said:

@MrEd said:

@plumberg said:

@MrEd said:
I don't like idling the servers, but sometimes that happens. However, I host a company-wide event for programmers each year, and last two events I did run participants code in isolated docker environment. I would definitely include the free server into as a node for testing the code during the event.

Sounds interesting
Could you share briefly about the setup? Would love to setup something similar.

I have several VMs as "test" nodes that have docker and my own application running. I also have a RabbitMQ accessible to these VMs. When the team provides the code, I push a message to the MQ and one of the nodes takes the message with the important info (ID, maybe something else if needed). Code is compiled in docker container with network disabled, logs of compile are sent back using MQ. If conpile is succesfull, I run the code also with network disabled. The resulta are logged back via MQ. So having more nodes available are always good, less time to wait in case code is submitted in short period from multiple teams

Wow. This is really simple and elegant setup.

Of course more nodes better it is. How many containers you have per node?

When you say your application.. what is it doing?

@iTz_EthqnHD said:
I am also interested to hear, @MrEd!

It depends on the challenge I make. First time it was a duel on a highly modified version of battleships game, so each node was running two containers in parallel. My software was responsible for all the cross-communication and battlefield status tracking.

This year they were solving mazes, because I had 3 nodes on Ryzen VMs, I used one container per VM to give the best performance to solve the maze.

Next year I am still debatong on what challenge will be presented to my coleagues, so depending on that the whole infrastructure will be set up. Its only third event when I will be using docker containers, so there is still enough to learn, but I really liked the way I could control what the provided applications are capabpe to do And I know that unknown code cannot harm my servers

Qafar · December 2024

I will use for little website.

iTz_EthqnHD · December 2024

@MrEd said:

@plumberg said:

@MrEd said:

@plumberg said:

@MrEd said:
I don't like idling the servers, but sometimes that happens. However, I host a company-wide event for programmers each year, and last two events I did run participants code in isolated docker environment. I would definitely include the free server into as a node for testing the code during the event.

Sounds interesting
Could you share briefly about the setup? Would love to setup something similar.

I have several VMs as "test" nodes that have docker and my own application running. I also have a RabbitMQ accessible to these VMs. When the team provides the code, I push a message to the MQ and one of the nodes takes the message with the important info (ID, maybe something else if needed). Code is compiled in docker container with network disabled, logs of compile are sent back using MQ. If conpile is succesfull, I run the code also with network disabled. The resulta are logged back via MQ. So having more nodes available are always good, less time to wait in case code is submitted in short period from multiple teams

Wow. This is really simple and elegant setup.

Of course more nodes better it is. How many containers you have per node?

When you say your application.. what is it doing?

@iTz_EthqnHD said:
I am also interested to hear, @MrEd!

It depends on the challenge I make. First time it was a duel on a highly modified version of battleships game, so each node was running two containers in parallel. My software was responsible for all the cross-communication and battlefield status tracking.

This year they were solving mazes, because I had 3 nodes on Ryzen VMs, I used one container per VM to give the best performance to solve the maze.

Next year I am still debatong on what challenge will be presented to my coleagues, so depending on that the whole infrastructure will be set up. Its only third event when I will be using docker containers, so there is still enough to learn, but I really liked the way I could control what the provided applications are capabpe to do And I know that unknown code cannot harm my servers