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Here is the status of the Alexhost Chisinau node following this morning's data center power maintenance. If your Alexhost VPS still needs an adjustment, please let me know. Thanks!
Just as previously mine is running fine after the reboot
Thanks for the report! Good to hear!
New FOSSVPS Location -- Bucharest
Soon! Not ready for requests quite yet.
Please help answer the following questions:
Thanks Hosteroid!
I couldn't resist!
I'd say Sid is pushing it a bit since it is by definition unstable, making it harder to rule out whatever other problems may arise. Trixie is (IMO) a good balance.
Unfortunately I cannot do much for you in regards of economics
You are right, at least by consensus, for sure!
In my limited experience, getting help from the developers sometimes seems easier when I am using the development version. So I tend to use the development version of whatever OS I am working on.
I know the feeling! But, no worries, being a nice guy and posting about how your VPS is working both mean a lot to me!
Always best wishes!
Tom
It's been a while. We could use a little more activity on the London server! Thanks OnlyServers! @dan_onlyservers
@msatt kindly suggested to me that Proxmox might be a more stable solution for FOSSVPS servers than the plain command line virsh that I have been trying on the Alexhost node. Additionally, Proxmox might help avoid some of the fat finger noob mistakes that I make too often. Last, but not least, @somik has a nice tutorial on how to use Proxmox with One Public IP.
If I understand correctly, @msatt is willing to go beyond just making good suggestions. I believe @msatt is willing to take over administration of the London FOSSVPS server. Taking over as the main administrator of the London server would be a lot of work, so @msatt's contribution would be highly appreciated.
How about if @msatt wipes the London server, installs Proxmox, recreates the existing VPSes for London clients who remain responsive and interested, and then goes ahead with Proxmox? Unless everything goes perfectly, which is unlikely, there might be significant downtime. But we might, overall, gain a significantly better experience as well as more clients on the London server with its powerful network. Who wants to stay on the London server? Any objections? Any alternative ideas? Thanks!
thank you, I'd like to stay in the London server if possible. the instance / hostname is vm3.
proxmox is a good supervisor platform. thanks @msatt for maintaining it.
proxmox is a good supervisor platform. thanks @msatt for maintaining it.
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Its ok igctt you won't be moving from London.
We will make it clear exactly what is happening and when (when we know) so you will have proper notice.
At the moment there are quite a few decisions still being made but I can certainly say we will all end up with much more flexibility........
Whose turn is next?
Checking https://fossvps.org/list.html shows @flyingto from Nodeseek.
Following @flyingto we see @MeMyselfandLinux from here with us on LET.
@MeMyselfandLinux Your turn is almost here. Sorry it is taking so long!
Thanks!
I suggested this a while ago so sounds good to me!
When is the wipe happening?
Thanks! Feedback appreciated.
Soon! Hopefully @msatt or I will post beforehand.
@msatt now shares root on the London server!
Thanks to OnlyServers for their kind donation! Thanks @dan_onlyservers!
@MeMyselfandLinux It's your turn now! Are you still interested?
@Not_Oles and I are just making some decisions - the key points are -
1. Many complications moving existing vms over to Proxmox (nat and disk space problems / conversions)
2. Wipe all VMs and start with all new Proxmox VMs
3. Leave everything as is and any new donated host can be built with Proxmox.
My personal preference is option 3 (if it aint broke don't fix it) and I would take over support to lighten Tom's load.
But open to any other suggestions.
Dear @Not_Oles,
Yes, I want to become a Volunteer Staff.
I think everyone would prefer Debian? I hope that because it give superior experiences.
Best regards,
ShayNeeo
for normalizing operating vps, it’s better to wipe all and use only one platform.
it would reduce the workload of maintenance in a long term .
So I finally installed Omarchy in a VM. Looks good so far.
Probably going to grab an old laptop, backup the drives and install Omarchy on that.
When is Bucharest going live? 🤔
As you can see, I posted a few questions above.
Of course there might be additional discussion of any or all of the questions I posted, but I think we may have exhausted the IPv4 allocation for the Chisinau node ( Thanks Alexhost! ).
Maybe it is time to move on to the Bucharest node. I think it would be good for me to make a few VPSes in advance so that they would be ready for faster distribution than what happens when I make them one at a time by hand for each request.
A larger issue in the background is how to make the VPSes efficiently. I have been using a very simple command line cloud-init approach. It could be scripted. It is already scripted, partly.
The simple approach lacks versatility and probably could use security improvements. But, it avoids the need for a meta-structure like Virtfusion, Proxmox, or Open stack, all of which are super great, but their source code seems beyond my current skill level.
The loveliness of the Bucharest node is unsurpassed!
Maybe bear with me a few more days, please. Thanks again for your kind donation! 
Excellent! Thanks for letting us know! I hope you make a blog post with some screenshots. Hint! Hint!
^This!
Something simple, and 100% open source, please?
Virtfusion is great, but not open source. Proxmox and Open stack are great, but complex.
Excellent! Thank you!
Please continue to participate in our conversations, and share your ideas. Pretty soon we will come across specific tasks that you can do. If there is something specific that you would like to do, please feel free to mention it.
I am very glad to have you with us! Your support means a lot! Thank you again!
FossVps discord server, when?
Hi @msatt!
London isn't broken! It works great!
@babywhale kindly made the existing London VPSes with his great BashVM tool.
Despite BashVM being vastly more simple than other KVM VPS creation tools, I think there is a lot of responsibility connected with adding additional NAT VPSes on London. If I were to try to do that myself, I would be worried about somehow interfering with the existing VPSes.
We need to maximize the value from London! We need to have good discussions about London, so that OnlyServers can know that their kind donation
has been put to good use! @dan_onlyservers 
I don't feel clear, yet, as between your options 2 and 3.
Thanks, as always, for your careful thoughts! Anything additional?
Thanks again!
Tom
The server exists.
Is Discord open source?
I feel conflicted about DIscord! Everybody loves it and wants to use it!
Totally agree, I vote for option 2. We all knew this wasn't a production environment from the beginning. As long as people have notice I don't see why it would be a problem to give everyone a chance to backup whatever they need and then wipe it and start fresh. Also, if you need any help just let me know.
When I started FreeVPS.org the excellent guys volunteering for the team wanted to use 99% open source but excellent Blesta and closed source but excellent Virtfusion. So, figuring that FreeVPS.org was a community organization, I passed FreeVPS to Eric at crunchbits when he kindly offered to take over.
Now I started FOSSVPS.org, and people want to use excellent Proxmox, which is open source.
I used Proxmox for several years. Proxmox is great!
But, for me, Proxmox isn't simple. There is a Proxmox API, a "traditional" web interface, and a unique-to-Proxmox command line interface.
What I hope for is something simple and basic. A few sh shell scripts, maybe. We have about 30 VPSes running on Chisinau which I made in a simple way, with cloud-init, as I tested several variations (such as whether to use backing store).
Haha, even the simple way seems really complicated! I have made significant mistakes, such as accidentally deleting important files. But, so far, a goodly number of VPSes seem to be working well for quite a few people.
For me, I hope to continue working on the Chisinau node and on the new Bucharest node with my baby steps simplicity and probably with more mistakes. Maybe I can post the few lines of code that I have been using and get suggestions for improvement? Maybe someone might want to help more actively on the inside?
Nevertheless, if some of our excellent volunteers want to work with Proxmox on London or on another server, that would be equally great! Maybe they even will convince me to return to Proxmox, which was, for me, an excellent experience overall.
Thanks to everyone who is interested in and contributing to our discussion of FOSSVPS!
I would say Ubuntu
I would want to use it for accessing social medias as it is limitted in my country & Testing some github repos,
My public key is all 0s, Will pm pubkey if needed
what would be the expiry of this this VPS? curious, 1 year or long?
Thank you @alexhost
Thank you @Not_Oles
Big Thanks for this amazing Giveaway from FOSSVPS.org team, stay Happy Healthy and Wealthy all the way ahead