(Calmly) Celebrating 15 years in business

themew · April 22

Amazing, 15 years in business!! Congratulations HostHatch!

nobitatn · April 23

Happy 15th anniversary, Hosthatch! 🎉

FAT32 · April 23

@NotFoundException said:
@DataRecovery said:

@remy said: my fat collection of hosthatch servers
if (count($collection) < 32) {
    $FAT = false;
}
32? Rookie numbers

Sir not everyone have the money for so many idlers - unfortunately I might need to do some cutting soon

yahooqq · April 23

I’ve already purchased it and am waiting for it to be activated.

DejavuMoe · April 23

@FAT32 said:
@NotFoundException said:
@DataRecovery said:

@remy said: my fat collection of hosthatch servers
if (count($collection) < 32) {
    $FAT = false;
}
32? Rookie numbers
Sir not everyone have the money for so many idlers - unfortunately I might need to do some cutting soon

I'm curious—what does everyone actually use their "chickens" for? I currently have about 20-something of them (fewer than 30), and I feel like I already have more than I could ever possibly use.

Socheat · April 23

Is Debian 13 going to be added?

madolche · April 23

Happy anniversary and GLWS!

Deepak_leb · April 23

Happy anniversary

cybertech · April 23

whats the CPU in seoul?

remy · April 23

[@DejavuMoe said]
I'm curious—what does everyone actually use their "chickens" for? I currently have about 20-something of them (fewer than 30), and I feel like I already have more than I could ever possibly use.

It’s mostly FOMO
When using ansible is the only viable way to update all your chickens... it’s already too late.

I'm now focusing more on quality, so i'm replacing like 3 with 1 high quality one.
That's my strategy to reduce the number of idlers. It works great! I expect to have less than 10 at the end of the year. (which is already a lot)

DejavuMoe · April 23

@remy said:

[@DejavuMoe said]
I'm curious—what does everyone actually use their "chickens" for? I currently have about 20-something of them (fewer than 30), and I feel like I already have more than I could ever possibly use.

It’s mostly FOMO
When using ansible is the only viable way to update all your chickens... it’s already too late.

I'm now focusing more on quality, so i'm replacing like 3 with 1 high quality one.
That's my strategy to reduce the number of idlers. It works great! I expect to have less than 10 at the end of the year. (which is already a lot)

I really need to put Ansible on the agenda; manually configuring every single server each time is just too tedious.

yoursunny · April 23

@DejavuMoe said:
I really need to put Ansible on the agenda; manually configuring every single server each time is just too tedious.

Ansible won't save you from initial ISO installation.
If you use templates, you can't know what's inside the template.
Without a known foundation, your Ansible cannot build a system reliably.

We can prepare a system in about 5 minutes, after the initial installation is completed.
It's simply copy-paste the commands.

What we wish to have is a toolkit to establish tunnels among our massive fleet of servers.
SIT, ip6gre, WireGuard, etc, complete with iptables rules and BIRD peers.

houshasei · April 23

GLWS

DejavuMoe · April 23

@yoursunny said:

@DejavuMoe said:
I really need to put Ansible on the agenda; manually configuring every single server each time is just too tedious.

Ansible won't save you from initial ISO installation.
If you use templates, you can't know what's inside the template.
Without a known foundation, your Ansible cannot build a system reliably.

We can prepare a system in about 5 minutes, after the initial installation is completed.
It's simply copy-paste the commands.

What we wish to have is a toolkit to establish tunnels among our massive fleet of servers.
SIT, ip6gre, WireGuard, etc, complete with iptables rules and BIRD peers.

Unless the service provider supports custom ISO mounting, I will use a one-click script (similar to netboot.xyz). bin456789/reinstall

If I were to categorize all my servers:

IPv4 + IPv6
IPv6-only
IPv4

Or, based on the operating systems they use—for me, it's strictly Debian and Alpine Linux.

The subsequent steps are the most time-consuming part; however, in practice, if I manually copy and paste the commands, I can complete the basic setup for a single server in about 10 minutes.

However, I think that if I properly craft Ansible Playbooks for different categories, I will enjoy the process even more.

sumo · April 23

@DejavuMoe said:
@FAT32 said:
@NotFoundException said:
@DataRecovery said:

@remy said: my fat collection of hosthatch servers
if (count($collection) < 32) {
    $FAT = false;
}
32? Rookie numbers
Sir not everyone have the money for so many idlers - unfortunately I might need to do some cutting soon
I'm curious—what does everyone actually use their "chickens" for? I currently have about 20-something of them (fewer than 30), and I feel like I already have more than I could ever possibly use.

Experimenting with server OS, networking, OSS ... and idling. Been shedding the idlers. This deal is nice, but resisting getting more idlers.

sumo · April 23

GLWS and happy 15th! It's terrific to see LET providers that stay in business

VM6 · April 23

I bet you been through blood, sweat, and tears over them years.

Happy 15th birthday hosthatch!!

oloke · April 23

@yoursunny said:

@DejavuMoe said:
I really need to put Ansible on the agenda; manually configuring every single server each time is just too tedious.

Ansible won't save you from initial ISO installation.
If you use templates, you can't know what's inside the template.
Without a known foundation, your Ansible cannot build a system reliably.

We can prepare a system in about 5 minutes, after the initial installation is completed.
It's simply copy-paste the commands.

What we wish to have is a toolkit to establish tunnels among our massive fleet of servers.
SIT, ip6gre, WireGuard, etc, complete with iptables rules and BIRD peers.

You could use ansible to install the OS from live environment.

I kinda do that but with a script rather than ansible playbook. This helps maintaining uniform setups across providers and specify custom partition layout.
However that method usually requires bit more than 1GB RAM to work without quirks (it needs to load live environment into RAM first)

kaddai · April 23

@hosthatch is there any looking glass for Seoul?

Manoj2 · April 23

Not found storage VPS plans on the promo page.

thaidt · April 23

This is a payment receipt for Invoice 623251 sent on 2026-04-22
Status: Paid
Happy 15th anniversary, Hosthatch! 🎉

COLBYLICIOUS · April 23

@hyperblast provider approved?

fredo1664 · April 23

@Manoj2 said:
Not found storage VPS plans on the promo page.

They are all there for me, what location are you checking?

lev1ne · April 23

This is a payment receipt for Invoice 623362 sent on 2026-04-23
Status: Paid
Happy 15th anniversary, Hosthatch! 🎉

admip · April 23

This is a payment receipt for Invoice 621992 sent on 2026-04-22
Status: Paid
Happy 15th anniversary, Hosthatch! 🎉

lowfatgeek · April 23

Happy 15th anniversary, Hosthatch! 🎉

bdl · April 23

@FAT32 said:
@NotFoundException said:
@DataRecovery said:

@remy said: my fat collection of hosthatch servers
if (count($collection) < 32) {
    $FAT = false;
}
32? Rookie numbers
Sir not everyone have the money for so many idlers - unfortunately I might need to do some cutting soon

FAT31.5

NotFoundException · April 23

@FAT32 said:
@NotFoundException said:
@DataRecovery said:

@remy said: my fat collection of hosthatch servers
if (count($collection) < 32) {
    $FAT = false;
}
32? Rookie numbers
Sir not everyone have the money for so many idlers - unfortunately I might need to do some cutting soon

It's called satire. I wouldn't be surprised when there are at least a hand full here that have 100+ VPSs tho.

nameserver · April 23

@Rubben said:

@yoursunny said:
Hi @Rubben can you buy this for us?

@nameserver can you buy this for me

ehhhhh nah

NotFoundException · April 23

@DejavuMoe said:
@FAT32 said:
@NotFoundException said:
@DataRecovery said:

@remy said: my fat collection of hosthatch servers
if (count($collection) < 32) {
    $FAT = false;
}
32? Rookie numbers
Sir not everyone have the money for so many idlers - unfortunately I might need to do some cutting soon
I'm curious—what does everyone actually use their "chickens" for? I currently have about 20-something of them (fewer than 30), and I feel like I already have more than I could ever possibly use.

Depends on which VPS I'm talking about, but mostly for dev/test environment. I develop and manage software and my prod runs mostly on OVH dedicated servers, since a few weeks ago only on RISE/ADV. Having VPSs across the globe and multiple providers makes it easier to test latency issues, hardware requirements and so on.

HostHatch is one of a few exceptions now to use for production as they offer a nice private network supporting jumbo packets.

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