) is fully allocated. Nine happy users there! Our three new nodes are being provisioned, installed, and tested (Thanks OnlyServers, Alexhost, and [esteemed, soon-to-be-named Provider]!

Access : ✔ Online ISP : Alexhost SRL ASN : AS200019 ALEXHOST SRL Host : Alexhost SRL Location : Chisinau, Chișinău Municipality-CU, Moldov

Our Alexhost server is back up, with disks replaced and with the OS reinstalled. Thanks @alexhost! (Image)

So far, FOSSVPS has received dedicated server donations from @fmxm, @dan_onlyservers, and @alexhost.

Another update on the Alexhost server. (Image)

https://alexhost.com/vps/vps-europe/vps-moldova/

Update: Alexhost says they will attempt to replace the ailing disks within the next two hours.

root@alexhost:~# smartctl -a -d megaraid,0 /dev/sda [ . . . ]=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===SMART Health Status: Firmware impending failure seek error rate too high [asc=5d, ascq=63] [ . .

In other news, Alexhost and I are talking. Alexhost has asked me to run additional megacli commands. Alexhost seems to think that two of the drives might have issues. More soon. . . .

I added this information to the pending Alexhost ticket. I hope the information is helpful to Alexhost. I really appreciate Alexhost's kind server donation! I look forward to getting everything workin

root@alexhost:~/MegaCLI-8-07-14/Linux# megacli -LDInfo -L0 -a0megacli: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directoryroot@alexhost:~/M

megacli seems installed. Does it work? Can I get Alexhost the data they need?

root@alexhost:~/MegaCLI-8-07-14# unzip ./8-07-14_MegaCLI.zip Archive: ./8-07-14_MegaCLI.zip inflating: 8.07.14_MegaCLI.txt inflating: DOS/MegaCLI.exe extracting: FreeBSD/MegaCLI.zip

With regard to the disk read-write speeds, Alexhost and I already were on this. I opened a support ticket last night after I saw

@alexhost Can this server be yeeted in the recycling bin?

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Here is yabs for the Alexhost node on Ubuntu 24.04. (Image)

Geat news! FOSSVPS' Alexhost server is running Ubuntu. Our server just successfully finished its second round of do-release-upgrade, successfully going from 20.04 to 22.04 to 24.04. I think it's amazi

In other news, here's a snippet of terminal output that went flying by during a system upgrade of our Alexhost server's Ubuntu OS:

I'm looking into their dedicated Mac mini servers. I'm looking to develop apps on it. Can anyone please tell me if they are worth it?