@hawahawago said:
For 0.1$/m server is 0.000135 tokens/hr
The referral reward is currently +0.000002 tokens/hr, which feels quite low. Is there any plan to increase it?
0.000135 is also low, should we also increase that?
You're.. offering commission on penny services.. after April 1st is over?
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@hawahawago said:
For 0.1$/m server is 0.000135 tokens/hr
The referral reward is currently +0.000002 tokens/hr, which feels quite low. Is there any plan to increase it?
0.000135 is also low, should we also increase that?
You're.. offering commission on penny services.. after April 1st is over?
its account credit, it is basically enough per hour to offset the DHCP options entirely in exchange for a backlink, 90% of which most people are just putting up free pages on to abuse anyway, so its probably going to vanish all together until I figure out a better domain validation system.
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I don't see crypto mentioned anywhere in the post and/or the website (didn't register).
Is it safe to assume you don't support topping-up using crypto then?
I don't see crypto mentioned anywhere in the post and/or the website (didn't register).
Is it safe to assume you don't support topping-up using crypto then?
We will, for now the project is still in Alpha status, so we are using fastspring for payments only they are our merchant of record.
As we move towards beta this year we will look to add crypto but I have accepted crypto in the past and the current gateways like coingate etc are a nightmare to deal with.
We have had some suggestions from customers on gateways they like using with crypto and when the time comes we will go through all of them and decide or we may manage it directly.
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setting my own thread to sink as this is getting a bit derailed now
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@AnthonySmith said:
setting my own thread to sink as this is getting a bit derailed now
derailed? have you seen the virmach thread?
should I close it?
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@WSS said:
I checked the FAQ and see that only 3 TCP ports are forwarded per VPS. I can't find a way to edit them, though. How do I set the forward?
On the VPS management page in the server information container, top right, add more ports
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I would have expected it under the IPv4 config page. It makes sense to be able to edit there since it shows the allocation on that page.
yeah, tbh i started thinking that when answering you, will make some notes, this is the result of changing direction half way through, initially haproxy and the network config and vps management were all 1 page... lets just say it got a bit... silly.
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I would have expected it under the IPv4 config page. It makes sense to be able to edit there since it shows the allocation on that page.
yeah, tbh i started thinking that when answering you, will make some notes, this is the result of changing direction half way through, initially haproxy and the network config and vps management were all 1 page... lets just say it got a bit... silly.
Yeah the flows are either really smooth, or "Who the fuck who thought a 10x10 mystery meat graphic was acceptable in 2026."
"It's a hard life- to be a stick insect." - Karl Pilkington
For what it's worth, given the resource and expense, it's pretty much just what I'd expect. It's a lot slower than other KVMs, but I don't really expect much for under $0.50/mo. The HAProxy config was very simple, even though having it throw 503s at me for minutes because I was throwing 404s was confusing.
"It's a hard life- to be a stick insect." - Karl Pilkington
Also, along with the 503s (capacity?) HAProxy isn't passing the client IP address, so my simple rate limiting script is unhappy with a couple of hits to my contact page.
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@WSS said:
Also, along with the 503s (capacity?) HAProxy isn't passing the client IP address, so my simple rate limiting script is unhappy with a couple of hits to my contact page.
503 is saying it can't reach your back end server
If you end up 404 instead of 200 then it kicks your record out, it can take 15 minutes for it to be back in once it's responding with 200's again
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It was doing fine with a local netcat. (shrug) It seems to be kind of sporadic. I've got a pre-cached nginx and grav with a handful of php-fpm in the pool. Even if php-fpm went down for several hours, it should still serve from my nginx cache.
Only thing that it might trip would be the too-many-consecutive hits pool, and that's only set for the contact page.
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@WSS said:
It was doing fine with a local netcat. (shrug) It seems to be kind of sporadic. I've got a pre-cached nginx and grav with a handful of php-fpm in the pool. Even if php-fpm went down for several hours, it should still serve from my nginx cache.
Only thing that it might trip would be the too-many-consecutive hits pool, and that's only set for the contact page.
I will have a look in a bit, if it's our side being over the top I will relax it
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@WSS said:
It was doing fine with a local netcat. (shrug) It seems to be kind of sporadic. I've got a pre-cached nginx and grav with a handful of php-fpm in the pool. Even if php-fpm went down for several hours, it should still serve from my nginx cache.
Only thing that it might trip would be the too-many-consecutive hits pool, and that's only set for the contact page.
I will have a look in a bit, if it's our side being over the top I will relax it
I've been watching your curl hits every so often and they're fine. They do hit my default page, though, and not the one I've got configured. You're doing an HTTP/1.1 request, but I don't see my hostname there. My default failthrough IP based auth/unknown doesn't (didn't) have an index page so it was throwing a 404 at you.
%sudo tail /var/log/nginx/access.log
10.0.0.15 - - [22/Apr/2026:11:58:02 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 615 "-" "curl/8.14.1"
10.0.0.15 - - [22/Apr/2026:12:00:01 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 615 "-" "curl/8.14.1"
10.0.0.15 - - [22/Apr/2026:12:02:01 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 615 "-" "curl/8.14.1"
10.0.0.15 - - [22/Apr/2026:12:04:02 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 615 "-" "curl/8.14.1"
10.0.0.15 - - [22/Apr/2026:12:06:02 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 615 "-" "curl/8.14.1"
10.0.0.15 - - [22/Apr/2026:12:08:01 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 615 "-" "curl/8.14.1"
10.0.0.15 - - [22/Apr/2026:12:10:01 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 615 "-" "curl/8.14.1"
10.0.0.15 - - [22/Apr/2026:12:12:01 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 615 "-" "curl/8.14.1"
10.0.0.15 - - [22/Apr/2026:12:14:01 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 615 "-" "curl/8.14.1"
10.0.0.15 - - [22/Apr/2026:12:16:02 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 615 "-" "curl/8.14.1"
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You're.. offering commission on penny services.. after April 1st is over?
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its account credit, it is basically enough per hour to offset the DHCP options entirely in exchange for a backlink, 90% of which most people are just putting up free pages on to abuse anyway, so its probably going to vanish all together until I figure out a better domain validation system.
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This is totally off topic, but I was doing unrelated research on ChatGPT and Tierhive came up
Hi,
I don't see crypto mentioned anywhere in the post and/or the website (didn't register).
Is it safe to assume you don't support topping-up using crypto then?
We will, for now the project is still in Alpha status, so we are using fastspring for payments only they are our merchant of record.
As we move towards beta this year we will look to add crypto but I have accepted crypto in the past and the current gateways like coingate etc are a nightmare to deal with.
We have had some suggestions from customers on gateways they like using with crypto and when the time comes we will go through all of them and decide or we may manage it directly.
So, no, but soon.
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Can you feel this? Is it a hernia?
"It's a hard life- to be a stick insect." - Karl Pilkington
No that's a nipple
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How's the taste?
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like a hernia
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setting my own thread to sink as this is getting a bit derailed now
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derailed? have you seen the virmach thread?
should I close it?
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My zipper? I'll close it myself, thank you!
#Butts.
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on topic... not sure if we read it somewhere else... but which is cheaper? local storage or network? need about 200GB for now.
Also if mounting ISOs is possible? Just couldn't find the button.
We're the source, no cap. Address us: We/Our/Ours.
https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/221016/#Comment_221016
Hello, network disks are probably going away, so local is best
ISO mounting not possible yet, we do plan to add it, for now you can chain it through netboot.xyz which does support that
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Just created a new VPS in London, seems like the local disk option is not available? Also we can't access the VPS through console.
We're the source, no cap. Address us: We/Our/Ours.
https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/221016/#Comment_221016
Should be sorted now, if not pop a ticket in.
I had to do some work on the backup system which meant disabling a few things.
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Are all the TierHive locations OVH data centers? Or are you using any other data centers?
I checked the FAQ and see that only 3 TCP ports are forwarded per VPS. I can't find a way to edit them, though. How do I set the forward?
"It's a hard life- to be a stick insect." - Karl Pilkington
On the VPS management page in the server information container, top right, add more ports
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Oh. There.
I would have expected it under the IPv4 config page. It makes sense to be able to edit there since it shows the allocation on that page.
"It's a hard life- to be a stick insect." - Karl Pilkington
yeah, tbh i started thinking that when answering you, will make some notes, this is the result of changing direction half way through, initially haproxy and the network config and vps management were all 1 page... lets just say it got a bit... silly.
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Yeah the flows are either really smooth, or "Who the fuck who thought a 10x10 mystery meat graphic was acceptable in 2026."
"It's a hard life- to be a stick insect." - Karl Pilkington
For what it's worth, given the resource and expense, it's pretty much just what I'd expect. It's a lot slower than other KVMs, but I don't really expect much for under $0.50/mo. The HAProxy config was very simple, even though having it throw 503s at me for minutes because I was throwing 404s was confusing.
"It's a hard life- to be a stick insect." - Karl Pilkington
Also, along with the 503s (capacity?) HAProxy isn't passing the client IP address, so my simple rate limiting script is unhappy with a couple of hits to my contact page.
"It's a hard life- to be a stick insect." - Karl Pilkington
503 is saying it can't reach your back end server
If you end up 404 instead of 200 then it kicks your record out, it can take 15 minutes for it to be back in once it's responding with 200's again
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It was doing fine with a local netcat. (shrug) It seems to be kind of sporadic. I've got a pre-cached nginx and grav with a handful of php-fpm in the pool. Even if php-fpm went down for several hours, it should still serve from my nginx cache.
Only thing that it might trip would be the too-many-consecutive hits pool, and that's only set for the contact page.
"It's a hard life- to be a stick insect." - Karl Pilkington
I will have a look in a bit, if it's our side being over the top I will relax it
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I've been watching your curl hits every so often and they're fine. They do hit my default page, though, and not the one I've got configured. You're doing an HTTP/1.1 request, but I don't see my hostname there. My default failthrough IP based auth/unknown doesn't (didn't) have an index page so it was throwing a 404 at you.
%sudo tail /var/log/nginx/access.log
10.0.0.15 - - [22/Apr/2026:11:58:02 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 615 "-" "curl/8.14.1"
10.0.0.15 - - [22/Apr/2026:12:00:01 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 615 "-" "curl/8.14.1"
10.0.0.15 - - [22/Apr/2026:12:02:01 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 615 "-" "curl/8.14.1"
10.0.0.15 - - [22/Apr/2026:12:04:02 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 615 "-" "curl/8.14.1"
10.0.0.15 - - [22/Apr/2026:12:06:02 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 615 "-" "curl/8.14.1"
10.0.0.15 - - [22/Apr/2026:12:08:01 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 615 "-" "curl/8.14.1"
10.0.0.15 - - [22/Apr/2026:12:10:01 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 615 "-" "curl/8.14.1"
10.0.0.15 - - [22/Apr/2026:12:12:01 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 615 "-" "curl/8.14.1"
10.0.0.15 - - [22/Apr/2026:12:14:01 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 615 "-" "curl/8.14.1"
10.0.0.15 - - [22/Apr/2026:12:16:02 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 615 "-" "curl/8.14.1"
Compared to other traffic-
%wc -l /var/log/nginx/site.com.access.log
254 /var/log/nginx/site.com.access.log
%
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