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FOSSVPS.org is born!
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Hello @Not_Oles
Many thanks! 
I'd like to have a VPS from dan's server in UK
I will use it to host globalping probe, uptime kuma and maybe few other projects in mind if the VPS remains for another month
Many thanks!
Would appreciate 8G3C but I'll take whatevers given!
Hi @Not_Oles
Finally this project is up and running, i would like to ask for a vps if it's available,
I will be building my code and testing it on the vps
And please also let me know if possible i would like to volunteer for your this project, i will be more than happy to help you out with it
Thanks
Hi @Not_Oles
I'd like to have a VPS from AlexHost's server in MD
I will use it for testing and studying
Many thanks!
@Protocol903 You will remember that dan's server was running impressively well, but with NAT VPSes. @babywhale and I have been trying to make macvtap VPSes, but we are not quite there yet. Sorry for the delay.
We're up and running in Los Angeles, and that server is sold out. For the next few days we're working on getting macvtap VPSes configured in London and in Chisinau.
Do you want to share more about your code? What does your project do? Can you share an open source repository link?
Thanks for offering to volunteer! The task list includes at least server administration, client support, website, articles, donor relations, legal, accounting, and more. What tasks seem most attractive to you?
Thanks again! Always best wishes!
Hello I would like to volunteer my services for legal tasks.
No problem at all. Thank you very much for such contribution.
Thanks! That's great!
What I hope to do is register as a non-profit in Delaware and apply for 501(c)(3) status from the IRS. Of course, you might have a better idea.
Would you kindly share a few details about your legal studies and about your licenses, if any, please?
You can PM or email the address on my profile if you do not want to share specific details publicly.
Thanks again!
I will be basically using it for personal project basically for building the code there in server, compiling and deployment as per my requirement like frontend or backend api, testing etc
And i can help with server administration, client support, donor relations, legal accounting (not sure need more info on this, if it's related to abuse reports handling, dmca etc i guess I can ),
website & articles are doable but would be lowest in my priority list i guess
Thanks
Haha, we are making some great progress on three issues!
One of the staff geniuses added the server's extra out-of-band IPs to the node's main interface thinking that might be required for macvtap. Turns out, apparently, that the extra IPs should not be added to the node. For macvtap, it's apparently better to think of the extra IPs as directly connected to the same router to which the main IP is connected.
It seems that BashVM's setup for macvtap is restricted to additional IPs which are part of the same subnet as the node. In situations, like for example, Hetzner and Only servers, where the extra IPs are provisioned as a subnet out-of-band with respect to the node's main subnet, BashVM needs an update to handle these.
BashVM's "manual" VMs are provisioned expecting to use VNC. BashVM's "automatic" VMs are provisioned expecting to use serial port console. @Not_Oles thinks it would be great if the manual VMs also could be provisioned expecting serial console rather than requiring setup of VNC and then going in over VNC to manually set serial console on each VM individually.
That all sounds good! Thank you! Do you want to share more about your personal project? What does your code do? Is it open source? Thanks again!
No it's not open-source, it will be basically a development and testing environment for me, and it's basically as per client's requirements so for example it can be as simple as an frontend in react consuming rest api for getting backend functionality etc and can be using db like MySQL mongo db etc
As per the OP:
As per FOSSVPS.org:
You are more than welcome if you want to run something that's open source and is not for commercial use.
Thanks again! Always best wishes!
No my code won't be a commercial i would say, as the vps will simply give a playground to test & learn things obviously not for running production commercial load here on this vps, and obviously we can't imagine world without open-source as i will also be using web servers, databases, React.js , Node.js i guess these qualifies as open-source source?
What about https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma ? And projects like these for testing and learning?
@ashish168527 Please help me understand. I thought you said that you were working for clients and that you wanted to use your VPS as a testing ground according to client requirements?
I appreciate that open source software is often used by businesses. Although FOSSVPS servers are great, I do not feel that they are up to the task of business use for clients.
Running something open source for yourself probably is fine. But using FOSSVPS for your own clients, I.e., commercial business is outside the scope. I wish the rules could be more inclusive, but they are not yet expanded to allow business use.
In other news, here's a snippet of terminal output that went flying by during a system upgrade of our Alexhost server's Ubuntu OS:
A moment later, I saw the 66880 files become 69000 files! That's a lot of files! More than any one person could read.
I seem to remember the same thing being said on the first page of the Chrome Browser developer documentation -- that the Chrome project was too big for any one person to understand all of it.
Could it be a profound characteristic of the modern world that no one can work alone any more, that we need each other much more than before?
Geat news! FOSSVPS' Alexhost server is running Ubuntu. Our server just successfully finished its second round of
do-release-upgrade, successfully going from 20.04 to 22.04 to 24.04. I think it's amazingly fun, indeed nearly miraculous, that our antique machine can successfully accomplish such a complex upgrade operation involving thousands and thousands of files. Kudos to the Ubuntu, Debian, and Linux kernel teams as well! Thanks again to Alexhost for their kind donation!Here is yabs for the Alexhost node on Ubuntu 24.04.
It's a good time to remember that a group of excellent gentlmen have been using their free VPSes on the FOSSVPS Los Angeles server. Now, while @babywhale is progressing on BashVM using the OnlyServers server, I might try experimentally making a few macvtap KVM VPSes on the Alexhost server directly by hand with virt-install and cloud-init. I've never actually tried this type of VPS install. If there is someone here who is really up on virt-install and cloud-init, and who doesn't mind helping, that would be great!
Thanks to @fmxm, @netixen, @dan_onlyservers, and @alexhost!
Special thanks to @babywhale! 
Well maybe my reply was confusing, i simply wanted to say that in short your vps will be used as a testing grounds, deploying some OSS and learning how it works, maybe development, and there won't be any production or commercial applications deployment here
I will respect your decision whatever you decide
& Indeed collaboration makes life easy, it makes things suck less and doable,
Thanks for running this project, happy to see things are now moving forward quickly, and more providers are contributing servers to this project
@alexhost Can this server be yeeted in the recycling bin?
I think the server is nice! It's an antique! As you also can see from the Yabs, the server
has lots of cores, lots of memory (dmidecode says DDRR3 ECC), and
gets complex stuff (two successive do-release-upgrades) done well, even if it does take a bit longer.
This wonderful server is perfect for practice and study!
With regard to the disk read-write speeds, Alexhost and I already were on this. I opened a support ticket last night after I saw
The server has hardware RAID and seven (not eight) 600 GB spinning rust disks. I'm pretty sure the RAID is supposed to be RAID 10, so the slow speeds seen in the Yabs might be partly because the RAID array is degraded.
I asked Alexhost about the number of disks, which normally would be expected to be an even number and maybe a multiple of four.
Alexhost support wants data from megacli to evaluate the situation.
If I understand right (from AI, not checked yet), for Ubuntu, megacli needs to be installed as a .deb after being converted from a .rpm.
Alexhost support kindly wanted to come aboard and deal with the megacli issue, but I prefer to try installing it myself. Seems like a great way to learn a little something more.
After the drives, next up is to try making VPSes by hand with virt-install and cloud-init or with BashVM.
If anyone here is up on magacli, virt-install, and cloud-init and wants to help, please let me know.
@ashish168527
Last but not least, most Low End providers are provisioning servers with only one drive. I think itt's great that Alexhost kindly gave seven drives! Thanks Alexhost!
Okay . . . I found
which says,
The only megacli download that I have found so far seems to say it's for Windows,
https://www.broadcom.com/support/knowledgebase/1211161499278/megaraid-downloads-sorted-by-download-type-firmware-msm-megacli-
I downloaded 8-07-14_MegaCLI.zip.
Well, what do you know, there is a .rpm hidden in there!
Let me go try to convert the .rpm to .Deb and then try to install it.
Conversion seems to require the "alien" package.
apt-getwants to install 88 new packages:megacliseems installed. Does it work? Can I get Alexhost the data they need?Need to get an additional library!
Here we see our megacli result which suggests that the RAID array is degraded. Two drives per span. Four spans. We have seven drives.
I added this information to the pending Alexhost ticket. I hope the information is helpful to Alexhost. I really appreciate Alexhost's kind server donation! I look forward to getting everything working and giving away free VPSes!
as your legal representative i'm going to need to see your license to drive this bus
Thanks for bouncing the thread! I like your humor! Happy Sunday!
For the record, you are not my legal representative and not the legal representative of FOSSVPS.
In other news, Alexhost and I are talking. Alexhost has asked me to run additional megacli commands. Alexhost seems to think that two of the drives might have issues. More soon. . . .
Progress on disk testing. Two disks seem to have been identified as showing the same issue:
I'm still unclear whether we need an additional eighth disk.
More after I hear back again from Alexhost. Thanks Alexhost!
Update: Alexhost says they will attempt to replace the ailing disks within the next two hours.
Thanks to Alexhost for replacing the disks!