Free for Students: Los Angeles KVM VPS, 2 vCores, 2 GB ECC RAM, 80 GB SSD, 100 Mbps
Not_Oles
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Good morning from MetalVPS.com!
Offer
- CPU: E3-1230 v6, 2 vCores
- RAM: 2 GB ECC
- Disk: 80 GB SSD
- IPv4: 1 (Each VPS gets its own IPv4.)
- IPv6: Not available (sorry)
- Bandwidth: 100 Mbps
- Operating system: Debian 12
- Virtualization: KVM
- Quantity available: 8
- Expires: August 10, 2025 (but might be renewed)
Rules
- Students only
- White Hat only
- Open Source software only
- Not for commercial or business use
- Monitor this thread; support and other discussion is here
- Post in this thread progress reports on your VPS and on your project
How To Apply
Post in this thread
- Introduce yourself
- Introduce your project for your VPS
Email @Not_Oles at the address on his profile
- Include proof of student status
- Proof may be shared with and evaluated by @fmxm
Special thanks!
To @fmxm, the guy behind fmxm.dev, for generously donating the server node.
To @babywhale and BashVM for making the VPSes.
Yabs
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# Yet-Another-Bench-Script #
# v2025-04-20 #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
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Sat Jul 12 09:10:14 PM EDT 2025
Basic System Information:
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Uptime : 0 days, 0 hours, 29 minutes
Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 v6 @ 3.50GHz
CPU cores : 2 @ 3503.962 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 1.9 GiB
Swap : 953.7 MiB
Disk : 72.8 GiB
Distro : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel : 6.1.0-37-amd64
VM Type : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline
IPv4 Network Information:
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ISP : Cnservers LLC
ASN : AS40065 CNSERVERS LLC
Host : CloudRadium L.L.C
Location : Los Angeles, California (CA)
Country : United States
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
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Read | 142.18 MB/s (35.5k) | 196.25 MB/s (3.0k)
Write | 142.56 MB/s (35.6k) | 197.28 MB/s (3.0k)
Total | 284.74 MB/s (71.1k) | 393.53 MB/s (6.1k)
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Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 235.13 MB/s (459) | 249.17 MB/s (243)
Write | 247.63 MB/s (483) | 265.77 MB/s (259)
Total | 482.76 MB/s (942) | 514.95 MB/s (502)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed | Ping
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Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 87.6 Mbits/sec | 88.8 Mbits/sec | 143 ms
Eranium | Amsterdam, NL (100G) | 88.7 Mbits/sec | 89.3 Mbits/sec | 151 ms
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 84.1 Mbits/sec | 86.1 Mbits/sec | 226 ms
Leaseweb | Singapore, SG (10G) | 84.4 Mbits/sec | 88.4 Mbits/sec | 182 ms
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 94.1 Mbits/sec | 94.3 Mbits/sec | 0.431 ms
Leaseweb | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 91.0 Mbits/sec | 92.1 Mbits/sec | 74.4 ms
Edgoo | Sao Paulo, BR (1G) | 83.8 Mbits/sec | 85.7 Mbits/sec | 212 ms
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test | Value
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Single Core | 1446
Multi Core | 2549
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/12837563
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
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Comments
nice but which countries are allwed?
It's a friendly, international project. It's not a commercial project -- and it's a short term giveaway so no financial transactions are involved between the project and the users. The server is in the US so I imagine that US law applies. That's all I know. I hope it helps! Best wishes!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
@Otus9051 now is your time to shine
Why?
The MetalVPS.com website seems to be down. A recent archive is available at https://web.archive.org/web/20250510032504/https://metalvps.com/
Thanks!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
I fixered it man rogue files and updates man please excuse the mess while I kick it in the ass!!!
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MetalVPS.com is back up now. Thanks to @AuororaZero for hosting the MetalVPS site on YetiNode. Thanks to everyone for your patience!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
@Not_Oles is awesome
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so somehow @Not_Oles volunteered himself into @yoursunny's naughty list.
The all seeing eye sees everything...
Using this server for a week suggests that the machine and the IPv4 network are stable. It's neither the latest shiny thing nor the fastest. But it seems okay.
Nevertheless, we haven't seen much interest in this free offer. Therefore @fmxm and I have decided to drop the limitation to students and also drop the need for ID verification.
Instead, we might make the free VPSes available to long-term, active, and helpful forum members.
So, would anyone who is a long-term, active, and helpful forum member want to be considered for one of the free VPSes? If yes, please post here. Please share specific details about what you want to run on your VPS. Thanks!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
The offer also is up on OGF and Nodeseek. Three left! Thanks!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
I'm good, already have an idler and I don't want to hog up resources, not like I will use it as much anyways.
youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
All the VMs are assigned. But something might become available for inactivity or for another reason.
I have Apache, PHP, MariaDB, and FOSSBilling installed on my VPS. I need to learn a little more about the configuration before everything might work. We will see.
Special thanks to @fmxm and @babywhale for enabling ten people's VPS projects!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Progress report from our server. Things have been pretty quiet.
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Progress on the test VPS on our server. FOSSBilling is installed. Here are screenshots of the initial customer panel and the initial admin panel. Thanks to @fmxm for kindly donating our server and to everyone at FOSSBilling!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Great news!
The server has been renewed until September 9. Also, it might be renewed until October 9 at the lastest, but we are not yet sure what will happen after September 9.
Thanks to @fmxm for his wonderful donation and for the renewal!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
I think we have one available dedicated IPv4 VPS on this LA servers since one guy moved to a different location.
Please note that the student requirement has been retracted.
Thanks to @fmxm for donating this nice server node!
Performance ought to be similar to this Yabs:
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
If I understand right, the LA servers was renewed this morning. Th expiration date now is October 10, 2025, and the server is not expected to be further renewed.
We still have one dedicated IPv4 VPS available.
The for students condition has been retracted.
Best wishes!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
I've had tons of fun making my first PHP project, a simple, basic PHP login page and a page to export the output of top!
This on the test VPS at the @fmxm LA node.
My project seems to work! But there might be some security issues, so the firewall locks it down to one IP.
Soon I hope to try the same in Javascript, which will be my first Javascript project.
Probably not too many people would be interested in the code for these baby projects, but I want to set up a self-hosted version control web interface, maybe cgit.
Thanks to @fmxm, @Alexhostcom, and Onlyservers for their lovely server node donations!
Want a free VPS? Please check the available inventory at FOSSVPS.org!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
At this time there are 9 VPSes assigned in LA and 0 available.
This morning I heard that there was $100 of credit remaining in the account which was funding the LA server. The donor said that an additional $20 would permit the server to be renewed for another month, until November 10, 2025.
Does anyone want to contribute the $20?
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!