What's the Most Ridiculous Thing You've Ever Used a VPS For? 😂

iamstrangemind · August 9

We've all used VPSs for the normal stuff:

Websites.
VPNs.
Docker.
Game servers.
Bots.
Monitoring.
Development.

But I'm more interested in the weird stuff.

What's the most ridiculous, unexpected, unnecessary, or downright questionable thing you've ever hosted on a VPS?

Maybe you:

Hosted something that absolutely didn't need a VPS.
Spent $5/month to solve a problem that could have been solved with a $0.01 script.
Ran a bot for no reason other than "because I could."
Turned a VPS into a personal experiment and completely broke it.
Used an expensive server for something hilariously simple.
Built something at 3 AM that made perfect sense at the time.
Or did something that makes you wonder why the VPS provider never asked questions. 😂

No judgment here.

I'll probably learn more from the ridiculous projects than from another "best VPS under $5" thread.

Tell the story, not just the project.

What were you trying to do?

Why did you use a VPS?

And, most importantly...

Was it actually worth it? 😂

plumberg · August 9

karma farming

And AI slop

Mods, please take note.

Frameworks · August 9

@plumberg said:
karma farming

And AI slop

Mods, please take note.

+1000 karma

itzsenu · August 9

to run Gentoo server so I could say 'btw I run Gentoo.'

Droidzone · August 9

To create a game that teaches my 4 year old counting, by making every refresh create a random number of random animals. I could do it on localhost, but wth!

sillycat · August 9

ddos onidel

barbarza · August 9

Convincing a girl to go on a date with me. I will not divulge more than this.

Mainfrezzer · August 9

@barbarza said:
Convincing a girl to go on a date with me. I will not divulge more than this.

So next time is the guitar in front of the house again?

dbadude · August 9

calculator

Fubuki · August 9

did chatgpt write this?

sillycat · August 9

@barbarza said:
Convincing a girl to go on a date with me. I will not divulge more than this.

Was it @emgh

Cobime32 · August 9

spam discussions

i use vps training my pets

fredo1664 · August 9

@barbarza said:
Convincing a girl to go on a date with me. I will not divulge more than this.

Convincing a girl to go on a date with you does not sound like a ridiculous thing to do, and if she's into VPS then what else can you do.

Look what you can have with a KS-LE-B: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4581250/#Comment_4581250

OhJohn · August 9

@barbarza said: Convincing a girl to go on a date with me. I will not divulge more than this.

Now we understand why you need backups.

inaba · August 9

Hosting arts

plumberg · August 9

@Fubuki said:
did chatgpt write this?

It was @Murv w MurvGpt

AudioDoge · August 9

Idling

Mainfrezzer · August 9

@fredo1664 said:

@barbarza said:
Convincing a girl to go on a date with me. I will not divulge more than this.

Convincing a girl to go on a date with you does not sound like a ridiculous thing to do, and if she's into VPS then what else can you do.

Look what you can have with a KS-LE-B: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4581250/#Comment_4581250

This only seems to cater to people with a granny fetish. (What an opportunity with the veteran tag 🤣)

deafcon · August 9

I vibe coded a site to count down the days until my family went on vacation to Jamaica. It had an AI generated image of an anthropomorphic beef patty and a chicken with a t-shirt that said "jerk". It played random Bob Marley songs.

oloke · August 9

@sillycat said:
ddos onidel

iamstrangemind · August 9

@Droidzone said:
To create a game that teaches my 4 year old counting, by making every refresh create a random number of random animals. I could do it on localhost, but wth!

😂😂 I could do it on localhost.

Honestly, I respect it. Your 4 year old gets a counting game, the animals get a VPS, and somewhere a server is wondering why it's generating 17 ducks at 2 AM 😂

nghialele · August 9

Shutdown the VM right after provisioned.

iamstrangemind · August 9

@deafcon said:
I vibe coded a site to count down the days until my family went on vacation to Jamaica. It had an AI generated image of an anthropomorphic beef patty and a chicken with a t-shirt that said "jerk". It played random Bob Marley songs.

did the site survive long enough for the vacation to actually arrive? 😂

iamstrangemind · August 9

@Cobime32 said:
spam discussions

i use vps training my pets

I'm curious how did you make that possible 👀👀👀

iamstrangemind · August 9

@nekomikoreimu said:
Hosting arts

When you meant Hosting arts do you mind explaining further

iamstrangemind · August 9

@barbarza said:
Convincing a girl to go on a date with me. I will not divulge more than this.

😂 Now you’ve got me curious. How did it end? 😩😩 Don’t spoil the fun, I need the full story before I can determine whether the VPS was a success or a catastrophic deployment.

forest · August 10

Cheat on the world's dumbest game.

#!/usr/bin/python3 -i

import requests
import sys

req = requests.Session()
history = []

try:
    for _ in range(int(sys.argv[i])):
        resp = req.post('https://www.worldsdumbestgame.com/ln-action.php', data={'action': 'get'}).json()
        if resp['is_alltime_record'] or resp['is_number_one']:
            print(resp)
            break
        resp.pop('html')
        history.append(resp)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    pass

req.close()