What should I do with 35 VPS's?

Advin

I bought 35 VPS's with absolutely no plan for them. In hindsight, maybe I should've thought about it a little bit more before pulling the trigger.

The specifications of each are as follows:

Some Intel Xeon CPU (1 core)
2GB DDR4 Memory
20GB SSD Storage
100 Mbps Unmetered
Dedicated IPv4 and IPv6
Total cost is $33/month for all of them

30 of them are in East Coast USA and the other 5 are in the West Coast.

I was thinking about maybe cancelling ~10 or so and turning the remaining all into TOR Relay's, ArchiveTeam Warriors, various honeypots, and maybe some other projects.

Alternatively I can just idle them all

ehab

this will be a good fit for docker swarm.

next article i work on such a use case but with far less node.

deank

You let them idle.

That is the way of the LESbian.

FrankZ

Offer the ones you don't want for transfer. $11.31 /yr average price with the specs shown and 100 Mbps unmetered transfer is a really good deal.

Some Intel Xeon CPU (1 core)
2GB DDR4 Memory
20GB SSD Storage
100 Mbps Unmetered
Dedicated IPv4 and IPv6

dosai

Do a les giveaway.

Micronode

Are they KVM? You could put a few LXCs on each of them and resell although it’s probably really not worth the hassle

benz

@Advin said: TOR Relay's, ArchiveTeam Warriors

Sounds good, more relays won't hurt.

shallow

You cancidle them.

root

Donate their bandiwdth to Tor. This is highly needed now, especially with a worldwide conflict at out doorstep. People need to stay informed and possibly exercise their rights to vote while also staying anonymous and informed.

terrorgen

Where are they located?

Amadex

United States (US-WEST-OR)

Sat Dec 24 11:03:10 UTC 2022

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 16 minutes
Processor  : Intel Core Processor (Haswell, no TSX)
CPU cores  : 1 @ 2593.992 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 1.9 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 19.6 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Kernel     : 5.10.0-18-cloud-amd64

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 16.02 MB/s    (4.0k) | 257.75 MB/s   (4.0k)
Write      | 16.05 MB/s    (4.0k) | 259.10 MB/s   (4.0k)
Total      | 32.07 MB/s    (8.0k) | 516.85 MB/s   (8.0k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 1.18 GB/s     (2.3k) | 1.28 GB/s     (1.2k)
Write      | 1.24 GB/s     (2.4k) | 1.37 GB/s     (1.3k)
Total      | 2.43 GB/s     (4.7k) | 2.65 GB/s     (2.5k)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 93.0 Mbits/sec  | 93.8 Mbits/sec  | 142 ms
Scaleway        | Paris, FR (10G)           | 92.8 Mbits/sec  | 93.5 Mbits/sec  | 146 ms
NovoServe       | North Holland, NL (40G)   | 91.5 Mbits/sec  | 89.0 Mbits/sec  | 151 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 86.0 Mbits/sec  | 77.6 Mbits/sec  | 235 ms
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 96.3 Mbits/sec  | 96.4 Mbits/sec  | 72.8 ms
Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 96.6 Mbits/sec  | 97.0 Mbits/sec  | 55.1 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 98.1 Mbits/sec  | 97.9 Mbits/sec  | 24.2 ms

Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 540
Multi Core      | 547
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/19481933

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United States (US-EAST-VA)

Sat Dec 24 11:04:05 UTC 2022

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 14 minutes
Processor  : Intel Core Processor (Haswell, no TSX)
CPU cores  : 1 @ 2095.078 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 1.9 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 19.6 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Kernel     : 5.10.0-18-cloud-amd64

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 16.01 MB/s    (4.0k) | 257.84 MB/s   (4.0k)
Write      | 16.04 MB/s    (4.0k) | 259.20 MB/s   (4.0k)
Total      | 32.06 MB/s    (8.0k) | 517.04 MB/s   (8.0k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 877.14 MB/s   (1.7k) | 881.65 MB/s    (860)
Write      | 923.75 MB/s   (1.8k) | 940.37 MB/s    (918)
Total      | 1.80 GB/s     (3.5k) | 1.82 GB/s     (1.7k)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 96.1 Mbits/sec  | 96.5 Mbits/sec  | 78.5 ms
Scaleway        | Paris, FR (10G)           | 95.9 Mbits/sec  | 96.2 Mbits/sec  | 79.1 ms
NovoServe       | North Holland, NL (40G)   | 95.5 Mbits/sec  | 93.8 Mbits/sec  | 87.6 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 91.0 Mbits/sec  | 84.9 Mbits/sec  | 175 ms
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 98.5 Mbits/sec  | 98.0 Mbits/sec  | 6.80 ms
Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 97.8 Mbits/sec  | 97.7 Mbits/sec  | 32.7 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 96.9 Mbits/sec  | 97.0 Mbits/sec  | 55.9 ms

Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 535
Multi Core      | 537
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/19481938

FrankZ

Comments regarding the OVH cloud offer have been moved here so as to not derail @Advin 's discussion and because it might be relevant to other members. Thanks @Advin for bringing this to our attention.

selalumenang

mister @Advin is mister 🎅

cybertech

i wouldn't mind taking any of your vpses with 2C2G20GB and above

for $11

Ian_Dot_Tech

Personally, my suggestion would be to increase from 35 to 50. Get out of those rookie numbers!

name

Is there a plug-in for selling these on whmcs, so you never have to cancel any of them?

CMunroe

Could host some open source services with those as well. Syncthing always needs relays.

Advin

@name said:
Is there a plug-in for selling these on whmcs, so you never have to cancel any of them?

There is a module that can, maybe I can resell them at $2/month for a whopping $1.03/month profit

yoursunny

@Advin said:

@name said:
Is there a plug-in for selling these on whmcs, so you never have to cancel any of them?

There is a module that can, maybe I can resell them at $2/month for a whopping $1.03/month profit

One customer sends spam or initiates DDoS.
OVH deletes all 35 servers.
Drama thread.
34 chargebacks.
Fees so high you bankrupt.

OVH realizes mistake and increases price.
35 heartfelt emails.
Drama thread.
35 refounds to store credit.
Another drama thread demands refound to PayPal.
Fees so high you bankrupt.