New Free VPS Location! Alexhost, Chisinau, Moldova via FOSSVPS!

Aphelios · August 2025

@Not_Oles said:
Here's comes the Chisinau reboot. I will post again when it is done. Thanks!

Haha, after the reboot I ran kubectl get pods and saw that many containers were reporting errors, so I had to start them manually. I hadn’t read the post beforehand and didn’t prepare in advance, but I’ll make sure to pay attention next time.

igctt · August 2025

@Not_Oles said:

@Starnberg said: is there a way I could get some sort of direct view myself at the host's live performance data?

As you certainly know, there are multiple ways to make the host's live performance data available.

What way would you guys prefer?

I always install a open source monitoring agent in the vps, then i can see the charts about usages of cpu, mem, disk, network connections, network traffic , or some network metrics

NodeSuper · August 2025

Congratulations on the launch of your new website!

vuanhson · August 2025

@Not_Oles said:

@Starnberg said: is there a way I could get some sort of direct view myself at the host's live performance data?

As you certainly know, there are multiple ways to make the host's live performance data available.

What way would you guys prefer?

Using beszel and add multiple hosts in one view, create read only users for who want to see, it help you save time instead of create bunch of users on multiple hosts, and beszel is opensource, easy to setup too

or just install node exporter, who want to monitor it will setup prometheus and grafana theirself

Not_Oles · August 2025

Hello!

I woke up to see a message from Alexhost, whom I had asked to consider trying a power reset. They said there was ping after a reboot.

The server responds to IPv4 ping from here. This is what I have seen to far:

root@alexhost:~# date
Sun Aug 17 14:35:55 UTC 2025
root@alexhost:~# uptime
 14:36:02 up 15:20,  1 user,  load average: 0.88, 1.05, 1.11
root@alexhost:~# virsh list
 Id   Name   State
----------------------
 1    vm3    running
 2    vm2    running
 3    vm4    running
 4    vm1    running

root@alexhost:~#

Edit to add:

Looks like IPv6 also is responding to ping.

Sorry for the inconvenience! Maybe I can look at the logs and find out something about what might have happened.

Thanks @alexhost! Thanks guys!

Next I write to Alexhost support to let them know the server seems okay. And eat breakfast. Add some new accounts. More. . . .

Not_Oles · August 2025

@Not_Oles said:
Any objections to giving @Starnberg an unprivileged shell account on the node?

Does anyone else want an unprivileged shell account on the node?

@Starnberg has been added on the node. Welcome @Starnberg!

Login info sent by PM!

Anyone else?

Not_Oles · August 2025

Next up are @seoky, @rickey, and @thenet.

Not_Oles · August 2025

@Not_Oles said:

@seoky said:
I would like to apply for a free VPS.

I am working on Copernicus CDSAPI WebUI, a simple downloader for Copernicus ERA5 Datasets.
I plan to use the VPS to test and improve the usability of my code, monitor Copernicus services, and try out automation workflows.

I hope to be a positive member of the community by sharing feedback, reporting issues, and contributing improvements back to open source projects when possible.

Preferred Location: Chisinau, Moldova

NAT IPv4 is fine for my needs.

SSH Public Key
ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAILDwlNXD6OVrTfVcQmFqlGYs5wVIrzan/U0VWjTgiid0

Thank you for considering my request.

Hi @seoky!

Welcome to FOSSVPS!

There aren't yet any NAT IPv4s in Chisinau, so I guess you are stuck with a dedicated IPv4.

Later today I will PM you login information. I will post here again after the login information is sent. Please be patient since I am slow. After you get in, and when you have time, please post here to let us know about your progress. If you can't get in, please post here to let us know.

Hope you enjoy your free FOSSVPS virtual machine!

Thanks to Alexhost for their kind donation of the server node!

Best!

Tom

Hi @seoky!

Login info sent via PM.

Sorry for the delay!

Hope you enjoy your new VPS!

Please let us know how it goes!

Thanks again for your application, and welcome to the server!

Tom

Not_Oles · August 2025

@Not_Oles said:

@thenet said:
Hi @Not_Oles,

I hope you are doing well.

I would like to run Laravel on a VPS: https://github.com/laravel/laravel

My preffered location from these is London.

I plan to use it for my new app: https://github.com/alimosavifard/Civitas

My ed25519 public key is: ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIANO1eCijtXzTITSSjp/QJQe86hRrxrpTLBPWRNKxlAj [email protected]

Thank you very much for considering my request.

Best regards,

Hi @thenet! Nice to meet you!

From just looking at your request, I would say, "Yes, of course! Welcome!"

I have to double check everything, so possibly later today or more likely tomorrow. I will PM you login info and post here when the PM is sent.

Thanks for your applcation! I look forward to seeing you on the server! And to your posts here in this thread. And to your progress with Laravel.

Always best wishes!

Tom

@thenet

Hello!

Welcome to our fun server! Hope you enjoy!

I just sent your PM with login info!

Please post here to let us know if you get in okay. Also, we would love to hear about your progress as your VPS gets installed and running.

The more and the better the posts we have here, the morer likely it is that the kind dono Providers will renew their donations and that additional donors will give more servers in more locations.

Thanks to @alexhost for our fun server!

Always best wishes!

Tom

imranex · August 2025

Can you please PM me free VPS details? I'm going to host my portfolio website on this. 🙂

BreakaWD · August 2025

Hi
I would like to run

Bind9 reclusion DNS server with DoH/DoT support
I can contribute to supporting open source projects and evaluating VPSes.
Location preferred: Moldova
Dedicated IPv4 is preferred since it will run a DNS server.
Please set up the VPS with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with random password and I'll install my ssh key later.
I really appreciate this offer and best wishes!

Not_Oles · August 2025

@imranex said:
Can you please PM me free VPS details? I'm going to host my portfolio website on this. 🙂

Hi @imranex!

Thanks for asking!

We can do something as soon as your profile shows a little more discussion and comment history.

Best wishes!

Tom

Not_Oles · August 2025

@BreakaWD said:
Hi
I would like to run

Bind9 reclusion DNS server with DoH/DoT support

Did you mean "recursive"?

I can contribute to supporting open source projects and evaluating VPSes.

May I please ask how you plan to contribute to supporting open source projects? Also, which projects?

Location preferred: Moldova

Dedicated IPv4 is preferred since it will run a DNS server.

Please set up the VPS with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with random password and I'll install my ssh key later.

Isn't it less secure to use password authentication? How does password authentication benefit you?

I really appreciate this offer and best wishes!

I appreciate your application! Thank you! Best wishes to you too!

BreakaWD · August 2025

@Not_Oles said:

@BreakaWD said:
Hi
I would like to run

Bind9 reclusion DNS server with DoH/DoT support

Did you mean "recursive"?

I can contribute to supporting open source projects and evaluating VPSes.

May I please ask how you plan to contribute to supporting open source projects? Also, which projects?

Location preferred: Moldova

Dedicated IPv4 is preferred since it will run a DNS server.

Please set up the VPS with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with random password and I'll install my ssh key later.

Isn't it less secure to use password authentication? How does password authentication benefit you?

I really appreciate this offer and best wishes!

I appreciate your application! Thank you! Best wishes to you too!

Yes.
I'm currently developing web interfaces for various open-source CLI projects, such as file2png https://github.com/rekcuFniarB/File2PNG
It's easier to login via password on an Android tablet. For the ssh key:

ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIDF/g+gxeQ5PyuVvTPsuOQT+TQSp+gHbUcKSQDPbQWdO

Thanks!

Not_Oles · August 2025

@BreakaWD said:

I'm currently developing web interfaces

May we please have a link to your development source repository?

It's easier to login via password on an Android tablet.

How is password login easier than ssh key login from an Android tablet?

Asking because I never used an Android tablet and don't know anything about them.

Thanks!

BreakaWD · August 2025

@Not_Oles said:

@BreakaWD said:

I'm currently developing web interfaces

May we please have a link to your development source repository?

It's easier to login via password on an Android tablet.

How is password login easier than ssh key login from an Android tablet?

Asking because I never used an Android tablet and don't know anything about them.

Thanks!

It's under the consideration of key management/distribution across multiple Android devices. And not all SSH clients are created equal on Android, as it might be more difficult for some clients to export/backup the private key.

I'll PM you my source repository. I would like to use the VPS to deploy some of my web applications for testing as well.

thenet · August 2025

Hi everyone,

I just got access to my new VPS and ran a quick Geekbench 5 test.
Here are the results:

• Single-Core Score: 688
• Multi-Core Score: 2392

Many thanks to the donor providers for their generous support!
The VPS is working great, and I plan to use it for testing open-source projects.

I’ll keep sharing updates here.

Best regards,

thanks @Not_Oles

Not_Oles · August 2025

@Not_Oles said: The last word I have is

root@alexhost:~# date
Sat Aug 16 21:59:00 UTC 2025
root@alexhost:~# systemctl reboot
root@alexhost:~# Connection to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx closed by remote host.
Connection to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx closed.

@Not_Oles said: I woke up to see a message from Alexhost, whom I had asked to consider trying a power reset. They said there was ping after a reboot.

The server responds to IPv4 ping from here. This is what I have seen to far:
root@alexhost:~# date
Sun Aug 17 14:35:55 UTC 2025
root@alexhost:~# uptime
 14:36:02 up 15:20,  1 user,  load average: 0.88, 1.05, 1.11
root@alexhost:~# virsh list
Id   Name   State
----------------------
1    vm3    running
2    vm2    running
3    vm4    running
4    vm1    running

root@alexhost:~# 

I just took a look at the logs.

root@alexhost:~# journalctl -b -1
  [ . . . ]
Aug 16 22:02:01 alexhost.fossvps.org systemd[1]: Reached target shutdown.target >
Aug 16 22:02:01 alexhost.fossvps.org systemd[1]: Reached target final.target - L>
Aug 16 22:02:01 alexhost.fossvps.org systemd[1]: systemd-reboot.service: Deactiv>
Aug 16 22:02:01 alexhost.fossvps.org systemd[1]: Finished systemd-reboot.service>
Aug 16 22:02:01 alexhost.fossvps.org systemd[1]: Reached target reboot.target - >
Aug 16 22:02:01 alexhost.fossvps.org systemd[1]: Shutting down.
Aug 16 22:02:01 alexhost.fossvps.org systemd-shutdown[1]: Syncing filesystems an>
Aug 16 22:02:01 alexhost.fossvps.org systemd-shutdown[1]: Sending SIGTERM to rem>
Aug 16 22:02:01 alexhost.fossvps.org systemd-journald[728]: Journal stopped

root@alexhost:~# journalctl -b -0
Aug 16 23:15:15 alexhost.fossvps.org kernel: Linux version 6.8.0-71-generic (bui>
Aug 16 23:15:15 alexhost.fossvps.org kernel: Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmli>
Aug 16 23:15:15 alexhost.fossvps.org kernel: KERNEL supported cpus:
Aug 16 23:15:15 alexhost.fossvps.org kernel:   Intel GenuineIntel
Aug 16 23:15:15 alexhost.fossvps.org kernel:   AMD AuthenticAMD
Aug 16 23:15:15 alexhost.fossvps.org kernel:   Hygon HygonGenuine
Aug 16 23:15:15 alexhost.fossvps.org kernel:   Centaur CentaurHauls
Aug 16 23:15:15 alexhost.fossvps.org kernel:   zhaoxin   Shanghai  
Aug 16 23:15:15 alexhost.fossvps.org kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
  [ . . . ]

It looks like the server started the reboot normally at about 22:02 but didn't come back up until Alexhost rebooted it about 23:15.

It also looks like we aren't going to be able to obtain much more information from the logs, because the logs aren't being kept during the reboot phase of the process.

I imagined that there might have been an issue with, for example, my setup of netplan. But from the logs, it appears that the netplan setup is okay. The network seemed fine before the first reboot and also fine after the second reboot was initiated by Alexhost support.

Should we try rebooting again, to test if there might be a repeatable issue? I vote yes. What do you think?

Maybe I am missing something here? Ideas? Thanks!

Not_Oles · August 2025

@BreakaWD said:

@Not_Oles said:

@BreakaWD said:

I'm currently developing web interfaces

May we please have a link to your development source repository?

It's easier to login via password on an Android tablet.

How is password login easier than ssh key login from an Android tablet?

Asking because I never used an Android tablet and don't know anything about them.

Thanks!

It's under the consideration of key management/distribution across multiple Android devices. And not all SSH clients are created equal on Android, as it might be more difficult for some clients to export/backup the private key.

I'll PM you my source repository. I would like to use the VPS to deploy some of my web applications for testing as well.

Hi again @BreakaWD!

I just PMed you login info!

Please post here to let us know whether you got in.

Please post here to let us know about your progress.

The better the discussions here, the more likely it is that our kind donor Providers will renew their donations and that additional Providers will donate.

Thanks to Alexhost for this fine Chisinau server! Thanks to OnlyServers for the awesome network on the London server! Thanks to @fmxm for the Los Angeles server where FOSSVPS started!

Not_Oles · August 2025

Free VPS Inventory

As of August 17, 2025

Location	Donor	IPv4 Type	Expiration	Renewable	Available
Chisinau	Alexhost	Dedicated	30 Oct 2025	Maybe	7
London	OnlyServers	Dedicated	25 Oct 2025	Maybe	0
London	OnlyServers	NAT	25 Oct 2025	Maybe	2
Los Angeles	@fmxm	Dedicated	10 Oct 2025	Unlikely	1

How To Get Your Request Approved

When somebody posts a request, and they have stuff like:

they read the OP,
links to the sources of not obviously open source software they want to run,
maybe been around the LET community a while,
maybe a significant number of thanks on their profile,
maybe positive and helpful post and comment history,
can see their email on their LET profile,
polite a/k/a please and thank you,
no spammy posts,
no troll, nasty, or negative posts,
good jokes,
nice avatar,
nice signature,
maybe a link to their website and source code repo,
etc.

This isn't a list of rules or requirements. Just a few ideas to consider when writing your request.

More, or different stuff, might be okay. . . . Even brand new LETizens might be okay.

The more effort you invest in your request, the more likely your request will be approved.

Once you are in, it's lovely to post a little about what you are doing and how everything is going. Your contributions to higher quality discussion make it more likely that Providers will continue to donate servers and that FOSSVPS will continue giving away free VPSes to the community.

BreakaWD · August 2025

Hey guys,

I just got my new provisioned Moldovan VPS and here are some basic evaluation reports:

----------------------------Basic-Information---------------------------
 Processor         : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
 CPU Numbers       : 4
 CPU Frequency     : 2799.980 MHz
 CPU Cache         : L1: 128.00 KB / L2: 16.00 MB / L3: 64.00 MB
 AES-NI            : ✔ Enabled
 VM-x/AMD-V        : ✔ Enabled
 RAM               : 323.17 MiB / 3.82 GiB
 Swap              : [ no swap partition or swap file detected ]
 Disk Space        : 2.16 GiB / 95.82 GiB
 Boot Disk         : /dev/vda1
 Uptime            : 0 days, 1 hour 35 min
 Loads             : 1.31, 0.52, 0.21
 OS Release        : Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (x86_64)
 Arch              : x86_64 (64 Bit)
 Kernel Version    : 6.8.0-64-generic
 TCP Acceleration  : bbr
 VM Type           : KVM
 NAT Type          : Full Cone
 IPV4 ASN          : AS200019 ALEXHOST SRL
 IPV4 Location     : Chisinau / Chișinău Municipality / MD
 IPV6 ASN          : AS200019 Alexhost Srl
 IPV6 Location     : Moldova
 IPV6 Subnet Mask  : 64
---------------------------CPU-Sysbench-Test----------------------------
 -> CPU test in progress (Fast Mode, 1-Pass @ 5sec)
 1 Thread(s) Test:              1071 Scores
 4 Thread(s) Test:              4067 Scores
----------------------------Memory-Test---------------------------------
 -> Memory Test (Fast Mode, 1-Pass @ 5sec)
 Single Read Test:              19292.08 MB/s
 Single Write Test:             16286.20 MB/s
------------------------Disk-dd-Read/Write-Test-------------------------
 -> Disk test in progress (4K Block/1M Block, Direct Mode)
 Block Size             Write Test                              Read Test
 100MB-4K Block         14.0 MB/s (3429 IOPS, 7.47s)            37.4 MB/s (9135 IOPS, 2.80s)
 1GB-1M Block           377 MB/s (359 IOPS, 2.78s)              1.1 GB/s (1039 IOPS, 0.96s)
-----------------------Disk-fio-Read/Write-Test-------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 183.09 MB/s  (45.7k) | 2.06 GB/s    (32.1k)
Write      | 183.57 MB/s  (45.8k) | 2.07 GB/s    (32.3k)
Total      | 366.66 MB/s  (91.6k) | 4.13 GB/s    (64.5k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 2.14 GB/s     (4.1k) | 2.22 GB/s     (2.1k)
Write      | 2.25 GB/s     (4.4k) | 2.37 GB/s     (2.3k)
Total      | 4.40 GB/s     (8.5k) | 4.60 GB/s     (4.4k)
-------------------------Streaming-Unlock-Test--------------------------
 The following is an IPV4 network test, if there is no IPV4 network there is no output
 The following is an IPV6 network test, if there is no IPV6 network there is no output
---------------------------TikTok-Unlock-Test---------------------------
 Tiktok Region:         【 MD】
----IP-Quality-Detection--Base-On-oneclickvirt/securityCheck---------
Data for reference only, does not represent 100% accurate, if and the actual situation is not consistent with the manual query multiple database comparison
The following is the number of each database, the output will come with the corresponding number of the database source
ipinfo  databases [0] | scamalytics databases [1] | virustotal  databases  [2] | abuseipdb databases   [3] | ip2location databases    [4]
ip-api  databases [5] | ipwhois databases     [6] | ipregistry  databases  [7] | ipdata databases      [8] | db-ip databases          [9]
ipapiis databases [A] | ipapicom databases    [B] | bigdatacloud databases [C] | dkly databases        [D] | ipqualityscore databases [E]
IPV4:
Security Score:
Reputation: 0 [2]
TrustScore: 0 [8]
VpnScore: 100 [8]
ProxyScore: 100 [8]
CommunityVoteHarmless: 0 [2]
CommunityVoteMalicious: 0 [2]
ThreatScore: 100 [8]
FraudScore: 0 [1] 65 [E]
AbuseScore: 0 [3]
ASNAbuseScore: 0.007 (Low) [A]
CompannyAbuseScore: 0.0251 (Elevated) [A]
ThreatLevel: low [9]
Blacklist_Records_Statistics(how many blacklisted websites have records):
HarmlessnessRecords: 0 [2]  MaliciousRecords: 0 [2]  SuspiciousRecords: 0 [2]  NoRecords: 94 [2]
Security Info:
UsageType: business [8] hosting - high probability [C] DataCenter/WebHosting/Transit [3] hosting [0 7 9 A]
CompanyType: hosting [0 7 A]
IsCloudProvider: Yes [7]
IsDatacenter: Yes [0 5 6 A C] No [1 8]
IsMobile: Yes [E] No [5 A C]
IsProxy: No [0 1 4 7 8 9 A C] Yes [5 6 E]
IsVpn: Yes [A E] No [0 1 6 7 C]
IsTor: No [0 1 3 6 7 8 A C E]
IsTorExit: No [1 7]
IsCrawler: No [9 A E]
IsAnonymous: Yes [6 8] No [1 7]
IsAttacker: No [7 8]
IsAbuser: No [7 8 A C E]
IsThreat: No [7 8 C]
IsRelay: No [0 7 8 C]
IsBogon: No [7 8 A C]
IsBot: No [E]
DNS-BlackList: 315(Total_Check) 0(Clean) 11(Blacklisted) 22(Other)
IPV6:
Security Score:
FraudScore: 0 [1]
AbuseScore: 0 [3]
ASNAbuseScore: 0.007 (Low) [A]
CompannyAbuseScore: 0 (Very Low) [A]
Security Info:
UsageType: hosting [A] DataCenter/WebHosting/Transit [3]
CompanyType: hosting [A]
IsDatacenter: Yes [1 A]
IsMobile: No [A]
IsProxy: No [1 A]
IsVpn: No [1 A]
IsTor: No [1 3 A]
IsTorExit: No [1]
IsCrawler: No [A]
IsAnonymous: No [1]
IsAbuser: No [A]
IsBogon: No [A]
DNS-BlackList: 315(Total_Check) 0(Clean) 0(Blacklisted) 315(Other)
Google search feasibility: NO
-------Email-Port-Detection--Base-On-oneclickvirt/portchecker--------
Platform  SMTP  SMTPS POP3  POP3S IMAP  IMAPS
LocalPort ✔     ✔     ✔     ✔     ✔     ✔
QQ        ✔     ✔     ✔     ✘     ✔     ✘
163       ✔     ✔     ✔     ✘     ✔     ✘
Sohu      ✔     ✔     ✔     ✘     ✔     ✘
Yandex    ✔     ✔     ✔     ✘     ✔     ✘
Gmail     ✔     ✔     ✘     ✘     ✘     ✘
Outlook   ✔     ✘     ✔     ✘     ✔     ✘
Office365 ✔     ✘     ✔     ✘     ✔     ✘
Yahoo     ✔     ✔     ✘     ✘     ✘     ✘
MailCOM   ✔     ✔     ✔     ✘     ✔     ✘
MailRU    ✔     ✔     ✘     ✘     ✔     ✘
AOL       ✔     ✔     ✘     ✘     ✘     ✘
GMX       ✔     ✔     ✔     ✘     ✔     ✘
Sina      ✔     ✔     ✔     ✘     ✔     ✘
Apple     ✘     ✔     ✘     ✘     ✘     ✘
FastMail  ✘     ✔     ✘     ✘     ✘     ✘
ProtonMail✘     ✘     ✘     ✘     ✘     ✘
MXRoute   ✔     ✘     ✔     ✘     ✔     ✘
Namecrane ✔     ✔     ✔     ✘     ✔     ✘
XYAMail   ✘     ✘     ✘     ✘     ✘     ✘
ZohoMail  ✘     ✔     ✘     ✘     ✘     ✘
Inbox_eu  ✔     ✔     ✔     ✘     ✘     ✘
Free_fr   ✘     ✔     ✔     ✘     ✔     ✘
------------------------------Speedtest---------------------------------
Location         Upload           Download       Delay
Speedtest.net    286.14Mbps      285.58Mbps      2.39ms
DE_Frankfurt     278.38Mbps      131.95Mbps      41.06ms
HK_HongKong      131.17Mbps      256.39Mbps      158.69ms
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Total spent   : 3 min 35 sec
 Time          : Sun Aug 17 21:42:17 UTC 2025
------------------------------------------------------------------------

It is a quad-core VPS with 100 GiB of storage, capable to handle complex services and workloads like SQL databases.

Thanks @Not_Oles and @alexhost for the server! I'll keep you guys updated

inthecloudblog · August 2025

@Not_Oles

What open source software do you want to run on your VPS?

I would run a Globalping probe inside Docker. This helps many of us with network diagnostics pretty much as we had mtr.sh in the past. The container only needs ~512MB RAM and from my experience barely uses any network.

https://dev.to/globalping/become-part-of-the-globalping-community-how-to-run-a-virtual-probe-1iia

How can FOSSVPS view you as a positive and friendly community contributor?
I like testing and running open source infrastructure tools. Hosting a Globalping probe from such rare or not that common location provides help for the project which I think is a good tool for most of us.

Which location do you want?
Chișinău, Moldova (Alexhost).

Are you okay with NAT IPv4 or do you need dedicated IPv4?
NAT IPv4 is fine.

SSH Public Key (ed25519):

ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIPqi+d665xL4m65JA1Agd3TQ2owpnkcg9D3SW7qbEDYk

Not_Oles · August 2025

@inthecloudblog

Hi! Nice to meet you!

What do you think about

https://globalping.io/network-tools/ping-from-alexhost-srl

and

https://globalping.io/network-tools/traceroute-from-alexhost-srl

Is what you want to do different from what is shown on the linked pages?

Thanks!

Tom

inthecloudblog · August 2025

@Not_Oles good find,sir!
I’ll check the other locations you have if you ok with that.

Cheers 🍻

rickey · August 2025

Progress report on my FOSSVPS.org server

I've received my VPS access yesterday and I've successfully logged in with my key. Today I have tested the VPS with the YABS benchmark https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script (open source bench test) which resulted in this output:

# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #

Yet-Another-Bench-Script
v2025-04-20
https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script
## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ##
Mon Aug 18 09:33:06 UTC 2025

Basic System Information:
Uptime : 0 days, 16 hours, 25 minutes
Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
CPU cores : 4 @ 2799.980 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 3.8 GiB
Swap : 0.0 KiB
Disk : 96.8 GiB
Distro : Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
Kernel : 6.8.0-71-generic
VM Type : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ✔ Online

IPv6 Network Information:
ISP : Alexhost SRL
ASN : AS200019 ALEXHOST SRL
Host : Alexhost SRL
Location : Chisinau, Chișinău Municipality (CU)
Country : Moldova

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):
Block Size  4k (IOPS)   64k (IOPS)
Read    15.18 MB/s (3.7k)   1.80 GB/s (28.2k)
Write   15.16 MB/s (3.7k)   1.81 GB/s (28.3k)
Total   30.35 MB/s (7.5k)   3.62 GB/s (56.5k)
Block Size  512k (IOPS) 1m (IOPS)
------  --- ----    ---- ----
Read    2.05 GB/s (4.0k)    2.18 GB/s (2.1k)
Write   2.16 GB/s (4.2k)    2.32 GB/s (2.2k)
Total   4.22 GB/s (8.2k)    4.51 GB/s (4.4k)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
Provider    Location (Link) Send Speed  Recv Speed  Ping
Clouvider   London, UK (10G)    282 Mbits/sec   280 Mbits/sec   43.7 ms
Eranium Amsterdam, NL (100G)    275 Mbits/sec   286 Mbits/sec   43.7 ms
Uztelecom   Tashkent, UZ (10G)  275 Mbits/sec   145 Mbits/sec   109 ms
Leaseweb    Singapore, SG (10G) 247 Mbits/sec   239 Mbits/sec   158 ms
Clouvider   Los Angeles, CA, US (10G)   242 Mbits/sec   103 Mbits/sec   173 ms
Leaseweb    NYC, NY, US (10G)   248 Mbits/sec   249 Mbits/sec   120 ms
Edgoo   Sao Paulo, BR (1G)  238 Mbits/sec   98.8 Mbits/sec  225 ms
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
Provider    Location (Link) Send Speed  Recv Speed  Ping
Clouvider   London, UK (10G)    277 Mbits/sec   210 Mbits/sec   43.7 ms
Eranium Amsterdam, NL (100G)    277 Mbits/sec   283 Mbits/sec   43.7 ms
Uztelecom   Tashkent, UZ (10G)  254 Mbits/sec   105 Mbits/sec   108 ms
Leaseweb    Singapore, SG (10G) 242 Mbits/sec   240 Mbits/sec   --
Clouvider   Los Angeles, CA, US (10G)   241 Mbits/sec   115 Mbits/sec   172 ms
Leaseweb    NYC, NY, US (10G)   252 Mbits/sec   244 Mbits/sec   121 ms
Edgoo   Sao Paulo, BR (1G)  230 Mbits/sec   126 Mbits/sec   225 ms
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
Test | Value
|
Single Core | 553
Multi Core | 1760
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/13379470

YABS completed in 19 min 49 sec

The VPS seems to be working just fine, and all of the resources seem to be more than enough for all the tests I'll be doing on it.

After that, I've added it to my hetrix tools monitoring, and installed the hetrix tools agent https://github.com/hetrixtools/agent (open source code, available on the link), to be able to monitor the VPS's resource usage. I can also share the public Hetrix Tools page, if @Not_Oles thinks it's a good idea.

Thanks again for the server, @Not_Oles, fossvps.org and the kind server donators! More reports coming soon

tpoll · August 2025

Nice, I like it, hope everyone can get.

piranga8 · August 2025

What open source software do you want to run on your VPS?
- testing agentic flow using N8N or huginn or Node-RED or Kestra, also some dev testing, i like python, php and business intelligence.
How can FOSSVPS view you as a positive and friendly community contributor?
- I love and use open source, and all ima make going to be open too.
Which location do you want?
- LA
Are you okay with NAT IPv4 or do you need dedicated IPv4?
- Anything will be apreciated.

Not_Oles · August 2025

@jmaxwell

By mistake, I just reverted your VPS to its original "fresh" snapshot.

If I understand right, it means the pre-revert contents of your VPS have been lost.

The mistake happened because I was on the wrong server when I ran that command.

We have been using "vm1", "vm2", etc., on all the servers. Maybe ee need to change that to "servername-vm1", etc.

Probably you can get in with the original credentials previously sent. Please post here to let us know.

If you need help, I will try my best.

So sorry! Thanks and best wishes!

Tom

BasToTheMax · August 2025

@Not_Oles said:
@jmaxwell

By mistake, I just reverted your VPS to its original "fresh" snapshot.

If I understand right, it means the pre-revert contents of your VPS have been lost.

The mistake happened because I was on the wrong server when I ran that command.

Probably you can get in with the original credentials previously sent. Please post here to let us know.

So sorry! Thanks and best wishes!

Tom

Clueless™ Administrator 🔥

Yeah, it happens to the best of us

Not_Oles · August 2025

@piranga8 said:
What open source software do you want to run on your VPS?
- testing agentic flow using N8N or huginn or Node-RED or Kestra, also some dev testing, i like python, php and business intelligence.
How can FOSSVPS view you as a positive and friendly community contributor?
- I love and use open source, and all ima make going to be open too.
Which location do you want?
- LA
Are you okay with NAT IPv4 or do you need dedicated IPv4?
- Anything will be apreciated.

Hi @piranga8!

Thanks for your application, which is approved. Welcome to FOSSVPS!

I just sent you a PM with login info.

Hope you have fun with your free Los Angeles VPS!

Thanks to @fmxm for donating the nice Los Angeles Node!

Best!

Tom

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