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Gone? Last chance!?
I just asked Alexhost whether they wish to donate a few more IPv4 addresses.
It is the weekend, so maybe I will not hear back until next week.
We will see.
It would be great if they can, positive news.
Alexhost says we already have all the IPv4s they can offer!
Let's embrace the IPv6 future!
Does anyone want to share the Bucharest FOSSVPS node with me? Free.
You can work directly on the node from your shell account. You can make containers, KVM VPSes, and use proot or chroot, plus more!
There are 5 IPv4s and an IPv6/48. Bucharest is running Debian unstable (sid).
I really like the Bucharest node! Thanks Hosteroid!
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dmesg:Free and open source software only.
White hat only.
Be awesome!
Fair use.
Not for commercial use.
No service level agreement.
Ephemeral. Could disappear at any moment!
Clueless™ Administrator!
Post in this thread, please. Sorry, no PMs, no emails.
Please include or link to your ed25519 ssh public key.
Please include links about yourself, e.g., website, blog, source code repository, other forums.
What do you want to run on the server?
You will make someone very happy here lmao. Although that is an incredibly fun thing I sincerely think me taking that up would be a waste of the opportunity :P Very interested to see where that goes though!
I think this is the ideal candidate for Proxmox, but then I would say that
So have you decided when you are going to wipe everything and slap Proxmox on it?
@msatt and I have been talking. He has done impressive background work!
To answer @FrankCastle's specific question, I don't think there is, as yet, a decision about wiping everything and installing Proxmox.
For more context:
The overarching question is, "What is the best open source way for FOSSVPS to install KVM VPSes on multiple servers?"
We need to consider multiple servers, including London and Chisinau and Budapest. Los Angeles less so, because we recently have entered what we believe will be the Los Angeles node's final month. The Los Angeles server expires on November 10. Thanks to @fmxm for his kind donation of the Los Angeles server!
Backups are good! Everyone should make and test redundant off-site backups.
The VPSes on London and on Los Angeles were created with the excellent BashVM.
I (@Not_Oles) made the VPSes on Chisinau. It is past time that I should post about how I have been making them. You guys can tell me more about what's wrong with my very simple method and how the problems would be fixed if we wipe and move to Proxmox.
Budapest doesn't have any VPSes on it as yet. But shell accounts are available, and a shell account owner can create VPSes by many methods.
Hi Tom! I am really interested in joining the Bucharest FOSSVPS node — it looks so awesome! 😄
I’m currently developing a front-end page that might actually be helpful for the project or the community.
You can check out my GitHub here: github.com/pixia1234
Here’s my SSH public key:
ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIMNinysTBGTK0+Xq+rd8rLj5wf46iRRhhEud/xz49Z60 ssh-ed25519-20240218105358
Thanks for sharing this opportunity — I’d love to explore and contribute!
Dear Tom (@Not_Oles),
I am here to request to be given a VPS for my project: Ping0 - Shortlink/ QR Code Generator/ Image upload hub. (For sharing between chat that does not support send images easier).
I am currently running the project on a development VPS (which is expired after 1 day if not renew), there is a provider in Japan give out VPSes like that but it's so slow and have limit internet connections.
Currently the project is in development state so the interfaces or maybe even the structure of it may change, but I will ensure the VPS be used with how they are given.
Again, You can check my profile here:
My past project (updated)t:
My github profile:
Another thing I want to update is the previous VPS that I requested is reclaimed by Tom as I have not taken time to moving these above websites
. I promised I will exploit the VPS significantly this time 
.
Here is my public SSH key:
Thanks for operating this project, thank to the providers that are donating to the project. We are blessed
.
Sincerely,
ShayNeeo
@pixia1234
Welcome to the @Hosteroid Bucharest server!
I sent you login info by PM. You need your ssh key to get in. Password login is disabled.
I added you to the sudo group. Your password is in a file in your home directory. Please feel free to change your password.
When you have time, please post here to let us know if you get in okay and if everything looks all right to you.
You are the first user. More soon, I hope. Thanks for joining!
Best!
Tom
@shayneeo
Do you think you could work with @pixia1234 and me on the @Hosteroid Bucharest server? It would be great to have you with us!
But, if no, I still could give you a VPS. Please let me know; either way is good.
Best!
Tom
Dear @Not_Oles
Like I said, my web is in development state. If the two of you don't mind it (sometimes I may cause problems? And maybe a large amount of storage usage because it is a upload service?) I would like to go anywhere.
I will make sure to clean the database periodically though.
Best regards,
Thanh
@shayneeo!
Welcome to our Hosteroid Bucharest server! I am delighted you are with us!
I hope we all learn more on the server than we might while working individually on VPSes!
I sent you ssh login info by PM. Password login via ssh is prohibited, but you need your password for sudo. Your password is in a file in your home directory.
Have fun on the server!
Best wishes!
Tom
Feedback Requested On Alexhost Chisinau Node VPS Creation Procedure
FOSSVPS has given away about 30 KVM VPSes on the Alexhost Chisinau node. Feedback on these VPSes has been excellent, with almost all issues clearly caused by administrative or client error.
Our goal is to find the simplest way to create excellent KVM VPSes from the command line on a Debian or Ubuntu Linux server. Given the success of the Chisinau node's VPSes, hopefully discussing the creation procedure will result in quality improvements and in further simplifications. Alternatively, it might be better to switch back to excellent KVM VPS creation tools such as BashVM or Proxmox.
The Chisinau VPSes were originally based on the method presented in a cloud-init tutorial called Run cloud-init locally with libvirt. The method involves
Modifications to the procedure suggested in the cloud-init tutorial included moving away from backing store. It seemed better to use a little more disk space in the VPSes by having everything the VPS needs within its qcow2 file. This permits updating the official image on which the VPSes are based. Also, the VPS qcow2 image creation steps were separated from the virt-install steps.
Hopefully I can post below a full example of the creation procedure for a recent VPS on Chisinau. Hopefully, we can improve the creation procedure or decide to move to a different method. Thanks for reading! Thanks in advance for any suggestions! Thanks to @alexhost for the nice Chisinau server node!
Here is the script to make the qcow2 file for vm666:
Here is meta-data, user-data, and network-config:
And here is virt-install.sh:
Post-install steps include:
How can this procedure be improved?
How can this procedure be further simplified?
Is it necessary to switch to a different and better method of making VPSes?
Thanks!
For making VPSes, I suggest using PVE, I consider PVE as a virtualization platform which provides graphical user interface (GUI) and command-line tools for easy management of virtual machines (VMs) and containers.
In my experience with managing the school club, I can assign each user a separate VM management account instead of a Linux user account. This approach is more secure and convenient
@Not_Oles,
I can get in the Dedicated server now. The only problem I usually face is the high ping (but it is the characteristics of my home location; >250 ms).
I want to ask that I have a install script for my project; but it is running with root user; not my assigned user; are you guys @Not_Oles and @pixia1234 okay with that? If not, I will change the script to user level and run it later.
Thank you @Not_Oles, big W to the donator @Hosteroid.
Sincerely,
Thanh
Very OK with that, by the way, I am now setting up with kvm VPSes, you may also try use your script in it!
@shayneeo You have sudo.
I know but.... my script is using 'root'; not the user assigned.
Do you have a Unify and Parameterize script for creating VPSes?
For example creating using command line like this
I just see this method convenient hehe.
What happens if you try
sudo su -?You probably already know, but, just in case you do not know yet, you need the "-" to make sure you get root's login path. If you just use "su" you keep your user's path.
I mean, if my script is running in root user, it's hard for you guys to tell who is running the processes or that task? Is that right?
Right.
So maybe adapt the script? Maybe post here to tell us that you are running the script? Something else?
Do you have the script in your repo so you can link to it? Or maybe just post it?
Thanks!