Following the successful initial test in the Exclusive section, things went pretty well with just a few hiccups, so we are making this more public. We hit 50 users live in the first 24 hours, which is great, and we are already pushing quickly towards 100 users live.

Forward/Warning: This product is in Public Alpha; it is not enterprise-grade and probably never will be. More on that during sign-up.

Please ask any questions.

Many more comments in the exclusive offer in case anyone missed that: https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/10288/tierhive-from-the-creators-of-les-nat-done-different-free-to-try

What is it?

Simple version https://tierhive.com It's a KVM NAT VPS product on ultra low cost with hourly billing.

• Ever need a VPS quickly for a short lived thing? have this on hot standby!
• Want your own multi-location lan/lab but dont want to run it at home? give this a try"
• Can you manage your backups and know your DR? why pay more?

Why is it different?

• We allocate **a full /24 ** to you to use as you want, e.g. 10.200.50.0/24 so you can use 10.200.50.2-254
• You get 2 ports per VPS with ssh auto forwarding. (TCP+UDP)
• You can change VPS specs as you want.
• You can turn on/off dhcp as you want.
• Your VPS bridge is meshed whcih means 10.200.50.20 in London can ping 10.200.50.30 in Canada directly.
• 1 hour minimum.
• Free to try as standard.
• SQL Offloading
• Mail relay available
• Self install available
• Configure your own DHCP Options (including for pxe on your private LAN)
• Self-migrate your own servers between locations.
• Quick install / recipes for Wordpress
• Earn credit by contributing.
• SSL Termination
• HAproxy load balancer and failover.
• We only need a username, email address and password; we don't store your personal details.

Where is it?

https://tierhive.com

How much?

Well, we bill for what you use/want, not a month in advance; we just have a 1-hour minimum.

Examples / COST:

• 128 MB Ram, 1 GB Disk - from $0.000135 per hour, which is about $0.10 per month.
• 1 GB Ram, 5 GB Disk - from $0.001022 per hour, which is around $0.75 per month.

We have extensive defences built in for those trying to exploit the free tokens offer, lifetime bans will be handed out liberally for this

How does it work?

• 1 token = $1 - We give you 1 token just for signing up.
• Add credit when you have had time to test it, $5 minimum, and currently a $10 maximum.
• No need to commit, if it's not for you, then no problem, you lost nothing.

What is a NAT KVM Anyway?

• For those that somehow still don't know how their own routers at home probably work, you share an external IP, you get ports forwarded to your VPS so you can connect.

A bit more about the product for those still reading:

• Really, per hour, your credit is indefinite; you don't pay anything to exist, if nothing is active, you pay nothing.
• You get a whole /24 allocated to your account, and you allocate your own IP addresses from that.
• Every VPS gets 2 x TCP+UDP ports
• If you allocate 10.0.20.2 to VPS 1 in London, and 10.0.20.3 to VPS 2 in Canada, they can directly communicate with each other over your bridged LAN on any port.
• You can set up your own tftpd/ipxe server on your LAN and enable/disable DHCP
• You can boot into ipxe directly and chinload netboot.xyz if you want, and install whatever you need.
• You can self-migrate your own VPS between locations.
• We have a recipe system where you will find official recipes for things like OpenVPN, WordPress, LibreNMS, WireGuard and others.
• You can also store your own multivps recipes and deployment scripts privately or you can share them with the community with a direct feedback and an anonymous bug tracking system.
• If people use your recipes, you get credit in return as a thank you from us.
• We have MariaDB and PostgreSQL offloading if you want us to do the heavy work for you.
• We have an email relay service, so if you need something to send emails, for transactional stuff, that is provided along with delivery tracking, and we also allow access to other major external services SES etc.
• We offer network storage, which you can attach to your VPS and move between VPS
• We offer a VPS backup system along with scheduling with options for overwriting or multiple version.
• We have a configurable HAProxy Service with SSL Termination which can rin in single location, single server (backend) mode, or you can take advantage of all our external IP's ad have them all point at your VPS (apparently people like that for SEO) or you can have a multi VPS setup with rounrobin or failover or sticky sessions and you can configure your own weighting.
• SSL Termination done via LetsEncrypt.
• You can change your VPS resources yourself; disk only goes up it cannot shrink, but you can change your RAM, CPU Priority, Disk IOPS, network bandwidth and apply it yourself.

If you want your own little LAN in the cloud, you're a hobbyist, or like to play with new things, or even a developer who wants access to cheap resources for a short term with persistent network disks you can attach and detach almost like a USB stick with everything provided and a recipe deployment system, then I invite you to try it.

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