Friendly VPS at TierHive!
Friendly greetings!
This morning I made another Tierhive VPS in Kansas City, MO USA.
Right now it's running Alpine. I do love Alpine! Maybe, however, I will get even more lucky and successfully install a few other fun operating systems. We will see.
Here are two screenshots from the VPS creation followed by terminal output from the initial login and update/upgrade.
Thanks and best wishes!
Tom
friendly:~# date
Thu May 7 18:09:51 UTC 2026
friendly:~# uptime
18:09:56 up 5 min, 0 users, load average: 0.58, 1.10, 0.63
friendly:~# df -h .
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda 953.0M 164.4M 741.6M 18% /
friendly:~# date; apk update
Thu May 7 18:13:24 UTC 2026
v3.23.4-140-ga88b91bf008 [https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.23/main]
v3.23.4-143-g3bc1a23661e [https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.23/community]
OK: 27619 distinct packages available
friendly:~# apk upgrade
Preupgrading:
(1/2) Upgrading libapk (3.0.3-r1 -> 3.0.6-r0)
(2/2) Upgrading apk-tools (3.0.3-r1 -> 3.0.6-r0)
Executing busybox-1.37.0-r30.trigger
Continuing with the main upgrade transaction:
( 1/39) Upgrading alpine-baselayout-data (3.7.1-r8 -> 3.7.2-r0)
Installing file to etc/fstab.apk-new
Installing file to etc/group.apk-new
Installing file to etc/hostname.apk-new
Installing file to etc/inittab.apk-new
Installing file to etc/passwd.apk-new
Installing file to etc/shadow.apk-new
Installing file to etc/shells.apk-new
( 2/39) Upgrading musl (1.2.5-r21 -> 1.2.5-r23)
( 3/39) Upgrading alpine-baselayout (3.7.1-r8 -> 3.7.2-r0)
Executing alpine-baselayout-3.7.2-r0.pre-upgrade
Installing file to etc/motd.apk-new
Executing alpine-baselayout-3.7.2-r0.post-upgrade
( 4/39) Upgrading libcap2 (2.77-r0 -> 2.78-r0)
( 5/39) Upgrading alpine-release (3.23.2-r0 -> 3.23.4-r0)
( 6/39) Upgrading libcrypto3 (3.5.4-r0 -> 3.5.6-r0)
( 7/39) Upgrading libssl3 (3.5.4-r0 -> 3.5.6-r0)
( 8/39) Upgrading zlib (1.3.1-r2 -> 1.3.2-r0)
( 9/39) Upgrading ca-certificates-bundle (20251003-r0 -> 20260413-r0)
(10/39) Upgrading musl-utils (1.2.5-r21 -> 1.2.5-r23)
(11/39) Upgrading alpine-base (3.23.2-r0 -> 3.23.4-r0)
(12/39) Upgrading libtasn1 (4.20.0-r0 -> 4.21.0-r0)
(13/39) Upgrading gnutls (3.8.11-r0 -> 3.8.13-r0)
(14/39) Upgrading chrony (4.8-r1 -> 4.8-r2)
Executing chrony-4.8-r2.pre-upgrade
(15/39) Upgrading chrony-openrc (4.8-r1 -> 4.8-r2)
(16/39) Upgrading libeconf (0.8.0-r0 -> 0.8.3-r0)
(17/39) Upgrading libblkid (2.41.2-r0 -> 2.41.4-r0)
(18/39) Upgrading blkid (2.41.2-r0 -> 2.41.4-r0)
(19/39) Upgrading libsmartcols (2.41.2-r0 -> 2.41.4-r0)
(20/39) Upgrading partx (2.41.2-r0 -> 2.41.4-r0)
(21/39) Upgrading libuuid (2.41.2-r0 -> 2.41.4-r0)
(22/39) Upgrading libfdisk (2.41.2-r0 -> 2.41.4-r0)
(23/39) Upgrading sfdisk (2.41.2-r0 -> 2.41.4-r0)
(24/39) Upgrading libexpat (2.7.3-r0 -> 2.7.5-r0)
(25/39) Upgrading xz-libs (5.8.1-r0 -> 5.8.3-r0)
(26/39) Upgrading sqlite-libs (3.51.1-r0 -> 3.51.2-r0)
(27/39) Upgrading python3 (3.12.12-r0 -> 3.12.13-r0)
(28/39) Upgrading python3-pycache-pyc0 (3.12.12-r0 -> 3.12.13-r0)
(29/39) Upgrading pyc (3.12.12-r0 -> 3.12.13-r0)
(30/39) Upgrading python3-pyc (3.12.12-r0 -> 3.12.13-r0)
(31/39) Upgrading py3-urllib3 (2.5.0-r0 -> 2.6.3-r0)
(32/39) Upgrading py3-urllib3-pyc (2.5.0-r0 -> 2.6.3-r0)
(33/39) Upgrading py3-requests (2.32.5-r0 -> 2.33.1-r0)
(34/39) Upgrading py3-requests-pyc (2.32.5-r0 -> 2.33.1-r0)
(35/39) Upgrading linux-pam (1.7.1-r1 -> 1.7.1-r2)
(36/39) Upgrading tzdata (2025c-r0 -> 2026b-r0)
(37/39) Upgrading linux-virt (6.18.1-r0 -> 6.18.26-r0)
(38/39) Upgrading libmount (2.41.2-r0 -> 2.41.4-r0)
(39/39) Upgrading mount (2.41.2-r0 -> 2.41.4-r0)
Executing busybox-1.37.0-r30.trigger
Executing kmod-34.2-r1.trigger
Executing mkinitfs-3.13.0-r0.trigger
* creating /boot/initramfs-virt for 6.18.26-0-virt
Executing syslinux-6.04_pre1-r19.trigger
* /boot is device /dev/vda
OK: 147.8 MiB in 222 packages
friendly:~#
Comments
I didn't notice TierHive at first, but it seems very fun to have a try. $3 would not hurt anyway.
Thank you for sharing.
MicroLXC is lovable. Uptime of C1V
TierHive gives one initial free access token to new accounts.
I should mention that they gave me a few extra tokens.
NOCIX or WholesaleInternet?
"It's a hard life- to be a stick insect." - Karl Pilkington
I was having a lot of fun earlier today messing with IPv6 configuration, during which I deleted and attempted to recreate my "friendly" VPS in Kansas City.
Oopsie! Temporary hold because of capacity limits. . . .
I just now tried again, but the hold is still holding. . . .
Congrats to TierHive on lots of sales!
Good morning!
Instead of waiting for additional TierHive resources to be added in Kansas City, I went ahead with creating a "friendly" TierHive instance in Vint Hill even though Vint Hill is further away from my current location (Sonora, Mexico just below western side of Arizona). Here below are a couple of screenshots of the VPS creation, which went well.
A quick Google of the cloud-init error shown in the second screenshot ("unable to activate module keys_to_console, helper tool not found at /usr/lib/cloud-init/write-ssh-key-fingerprints") suggests that the error is known and not critically important.
friendly upgrade to Alpine Edge:
Advin (which in turn is wholesale network I think)
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