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TierHive's IPv6 test review
TierHive of @backtogeek recently added IPv6 support to their hourly billed chickens, ref to their blog.
It appears that will allocated a /64 IPv6 subnet for each region, from which you can assign multiple addresses to the VPS instances within that region.
I haven't actually tested exactly how many can be assigned, though—after all, a single IPv6 address is sufficient for each of my VPS instances.
I no longer have to put up with NAT; I've provisioned a tiny little chicken with 1 vCPU, 384MB of RAM, and 1GB of storage. (about $0.32/m)
It seems to be running on KVM virtualization? So I tried using netboot.xyz again to reinstall a minimal Alpine Linux 3.23.4.
I’m running WireGuard on it, using Cloudflare Warp as the IPv4 egress; then I just added it to my collection of "little chickens"—it’s as simple as that.
curl -4 ip.zsh.moe
IP: 104.28.222.43
Network: 104.28.222.43/32
Continent: Asia
Continent Code: AS
Country: Singapore
Country Code: SG
City: Singapore
Location: 1.2872, 103.8507
Postal: 17
Timezone: Asia/Singapore
ASN: AS13335
ASN Org: Cloudflare, Inc.
Cloudflare Node: SIN
User-Agent: curl/8.17.0
I really love this little chicken; it’s absolutely yummy 😋.
Comments
@yoursunny so, which list are you going to put tierhive?
If it weren't for the routable /64 IPv6, I guess @yoursunny would still nail them to the "pillar of shame" 😨
well another cheap toy were always welcome, especially SG location
yeap! a cheap toy.
However, for users with extremely limited budgets, they can also serve as a Linux learning environment.
Deploying small Telegram bots or running various scripts—all of this is perfectly feasible.
It’s good really.
big step, very cool.
Since it's hourly vps, it's perfect for experiments. And with reasonable pricing
/64 per region? Is there a particular reason for not giving a /56?
I don't know...
I've also got a 128MB TierHive instance running in Singapore, with IPv6. About 10 cents a month. I just used the Alpine 3.23.2 template to install it.
I found it's best to install on 256MB first, then setup ZRAM swap, then downgrade to 128MB, so apk will run.
I'm running shadowsocks on it.
If only I could get an account to try them out🥲.
I used to running a 128MB for Alpine Linux, it's cooool
just have a try
They're not allowing customers from China, Russia, Brazil, Vietnam, and Iran. He might be from one of those countries.
@backtogeek
@MikePT can you buy this for me?
You can just use the 128 MB template and enable a swap file if/when you need apk.
If you really want to get fancy you can use the Tierhive guide on how to run Alpine in 23 MB RAM:
https://tierhive.com/blog/tierhive-howto/how-to-run-alpine-with-just-23mb-ram
I did try that guide, but in the end, I decided to keep it simple and go with the stock setup. It's easy to setup ZRAM swap, and leave it on, and then apk works. It's just compressed RAM, so it's not using disk resources.
Here's the guide for setting up ZRAM on Alpine linux:
https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Zram
Specifically, this is what I did:
Fair enough. I just prefer using a regular swap file when I need it because I can use the stock template and don't need to resize RAM.
No.
No.
Also grabbed ipv6 to try. I initially tried to run Alpine on 256MB with docker and it was a bit slow...so I increased it to 386MB I think and it is fine. However, on London node I was struggling to even start docker, was crashing due to whatever overlay error, seems like a hypervisor issue. I tried DE and CA locations, both work fine with docker.