You have 5 VPS (max) with 1 vCPU, 128 MB Ram and 2GB Disk on each, you pick the OS, what do you do?
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As per the subject, you get 5 VPS, you can pick the locations, all in 1 or 1 in each, 128MB Ram 2GB Disk, you pick the OS, what do you do, or rather, what could you do?
Thought experiment, design a "thing" if its a blog platform, which VPS does what?
Assume they are all backed up for you automatically.
What external services do you connect, you can connect any external service you want the only rule is that the external service cant be a VPS.
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its 2025, 2GB ram should be the new minimum
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
Haha, so your answer is... nothing? You are stuck on an island. You know rescue is coming. You have food, water, and shelter —this is what you have access to. You do nothing because it's not 2GB?
I am disappointed in you. The very least I expected from you was to say "I benchmark them" ... shame on your special tag.
2GB is the minimum memory for YABS to run consistently smoothly without swap.
I fully deserve my tag.
I am also in full control of what VPS to keep and what to discard. Not settling for less than 2GB ram even for $7. I work the VPS not the other way around.
that's my answer to your thought experiment.
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
excellent.
BSD. Flatfile. 2 nameservers, 1 web, 2 idlers.
My pronouns are like/subscribe.
I use the two others for a backup. I'd set up one as a name server slave and the other as a backup of the web server. I would just use rsync over private network if available. 128 megs is not a lot to run things these days, but with a custom paired down kernel you can still make things work. I had a web server running in 64 megs which also handled my basic external alerts for a long time.
That said it's going to be a little tight.
Damn I don't type well early in the morning.
My pronouns are like/subscribe.
Alpine linux.
Anything bellow 512 MB of RAM that's not on a LXC gets Alpine.
Anything bellow 256 MB of RAM that's on LXC gets Alpine.
It’s OK if you disagree with me. I can’t force you to be right!
IPv4: 32 bits of stress. IPv6: 128 bits of... well, more stress... Have anyone seen my subnet?
Assuming using my desert island scenario and if I had basic internet access, as I guess you have too, and ignoring the fact that you are probably going to have to use something WAY MORE powerful for access
I would run.
VPS 1 - Alpine + nginx + GRAV as a databaseless CMS to blog about my time waiting for rescue on the island.
VPS 2 - Alpine again with an ulta light weight desktop to slowly find then download youtube videos and compress to 360p for daily entertainment
VPS 3 - Windows XP - for pinball
VPS 4 - freedos for games via vnc
VPS 5 - Alpine and a super light weight desktop to control them
(except "because we can" satisfaction if it works. Bragging rights is outdated)
Vim terminal via ssh (?) for writing projects. Or Micro.
Telegram bot ?
blog | exploring visually |
anyone that maybe thought...... oooh pinball https://xp.quenq.com/
enjoy.
Just spun up an Alpine Vm in 128MiB works perfectly.
Alpine as an lxc 64MiB is fine.
Just use one VM for one purpose - job done.
Virmach is NOT worth the risk.
Yeah, the original LES forum ran on 64mb and it was not THAT long ago, surprising what you can still do with less if you try.
Stripped Slackjware install and run a cascading vpn. Assuming different locals for the servers.
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Interesting dilemma. Probably some lightweight Debian based distro and deploy some load balanced application on top of it... K8s cluster maybe? Hmm.
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Too much effort to handle. Gift them to whomever or let them expire.
Eat one burger less and buy a box that is at least the size of those 5 combined.
haha the idea being thats all you have access too, stuck on an island waiting for rescue
I'm starting to get the feeling that as a collective we have trouble following directions.
The backup feature is key for my proposal. I'd offer a bullet proof, unlimited single side normal density DVD archival service.
When a user requests a download of one of their DVDs:
The proceeds of this scheme will pay towards delivery of all I need to live in comfort on this presumably uninhabited island.
It is not just us it is everyone. You do not want to know how I know so don't ask please.
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If I had trouble following directions would my first reaction be to ask? ;-)
@skorous wait! Are you . . . asking?
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!