Free MetalVPS Intel i9-13900 Traditional Command Line Shell Accounts!

Not_Oles · June 2023

Free MetalVPS Intel i9-13900 Traditional Command Line Shell Accounts!

Friendly greetings to all! 🌎🌍

What You Get From MetalVPS!

New MetalVPS Neighbors receive a traditional command line shell account. Experienced Neighbors with additional privileges can create their own chroots, LXC containers, KVM VPSes, and much more, all directly from their command line shell accounts! 🎁
MetalVPS has a Hetzner EX101 Node running an Intel® Core™ i9-13900 processor at Hetzner's Falkenstein Datacenter in Germany. 🇩🇪
MetalVPS sometimes has more than one Node.
@Not_Oles is looking for another Node located in the US, on the West Coast, with great connections to Asia.
All Node resources are available for fair use. 🐷

More About MetalVPS!

MetalVPS is an indie project of @Not_Oles a/k/a Tom Miller a/k/a the clueless™ guy. 🥰
@Not_Oles pays Hetzner € 89.00 per month, approximately US$ 96.19, for the i9-13900 Node. 💰
MetalVPS is not a project of Hetzner, Low End Spirit, Low End Talk, Low End Box, NodeSeek, or FreeVPS.org. 👨‍💻

Why MetalVPS?

MetalVPS is @Not_Oles' way of expressing appreciation to the wonderful Low End community for all the fun @Not_Oles enjoys here. Yes, it indeed is very fun to play with and learn about servers, operating systems, and the internet.
It seems better to offer extra bare metal server capacity to others than to waste it. @Not_Oles' own server requirements are so minimal that he easily could use just a free cloud account. But, that wouldn't be metal, would it?
It seems better to keep everything as open and as transparent as possible. Hence, MetalVPS enjoys its commitments to 100% open source, free or libre software, and to public discussion.

"For a little while longer I can enjoy renting my own fast, bare metal servers, even though I am using only 1% or 2% of their capacity. It's great with me if a few nice folks come aboard alongside." 💖
-- @Not_Oles

i9-13900 Node Specifications

Processor: Intel® Core™ i9-13900 Processor
Memory: 64 GB DDR5 ECC RAM M324R4GA3BB0-CQK(DDR5 ECC) | DRAM | Samsung Semiconductor Global
Disks: 2 x 1.92 TB NVMe SSD Datacenter Edition (RAID 0) SAMSUNG MZQL21T9HCJR-00A07 PCIe Gen 4
Network: 1 x IPv4, 1 x IPv6 /64
Bandwidth: 1 Gbps unmetered, fair use

Yabs

Yabs for the i9-13900 Node is available here.
Enjoy the GeekBench 6 3049 Single Core and 17551 Multi Core performance!

More About The i9-13900 Node Hardware

Processor Architecture: Raptor Lake
Motherboard: ASRock Rack W680D4U-1L

Terms of Service

Thank you for running only 100% open source free or libre software at MetalVPS!
MetalVPS is not intended to be a stable platform for long running applications.
No warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
No service level agreement.
Not for business use.
No transfer of MetalVPS account or sub-accounts.
New Neighbors will not automatically be added to the kvm group or to /etc/sub[ug]id.
Fair use.
No spam, porn, hate, prejudice, malware, copyright violations, public proxies, traffic exchange, etc.
Accounts are subject to cancellation at any time, for any reason, for no reason at all, and without any advance notice.
Terms of Service are subject to change at any time.
@Not_Oles' personal opinion determines Terms of Service term definitions.
All Hetzner Terms of Service also apply, including, prohibition of:
- Operating applications that are used to mine crypto currencies
- The scanning of foreign networks or foreign IP addresses
- Manually changing the hardware address (MAC)
- The use of fake source IPs
- Additional Hetzner Terms and Conditions

Warnings!

Clueless™ administrator with "limited technical skills. . . ." 😀 @Not_Oles frequently messes up! 😱
@Not_Oles is especially clueless™ about Debian. 🤗
Hey! The i9-13900 Node usually runs Debian sid unstable! 🤩 And, it's RAID 0! 😭
The i9-13900 Node's integrated graphics processor is not presently enabled. 😵
Sometimes trusted MetalVPSians might or might not get sudo. 🙈🙉🙊
MetalVPS has no billing panel and no server control panel. It's all command line until you install the GUI that you want. 🆕
MetalVPS has no onboarding and no knowledge base. ♒︎
Account delivery might take awhile! 😴
Intended especially for computer learning and fun! 🤑
White Hat stuff only, please! 👍
@Not_Oles tries to keep the system updated. Frequent maintenance reboots are guaranteed! 🌺
Please make your own redundant, offsite backups! It's easy to download or sync or clone your backup to a safe place. Please also make sure that you actually can restore from your backups! Please think of your MetalVPS account as ephemeral! Your Node might blow up! 💥 At any random second @Not_Oles or maybe you might reinstall the Node! 🤦‍♂️
Other MetalVPSians can see your account name, some of the processes you are running, and much other information. So, please do not put confidential information on the server. 🤔
MetalVPS Neighbors are expected both to monitor and to contribute actively to this thread or to the companion Nodeseek thread. 🍔

How To Sign Up

Please post in this thread or in the companion thread at Nodeseek.
Please indicate your desire to join MetalVPS and your use case for the server. Please include your ed25519 ssh public key in your request. Please add any additional information you wish about yourself and about your education and experience. If you wish to provide ID verification (optional) and references (optional), these can be emailed to [email protected].
Except for optional ID verification and references, Private Messages ("PMs") and emails concerning Sign Up are discouraged. Please post in the public thread.
MetalVPS will consider your

Forum account longevity and contributions,
your use case for the server,
whether ed25519 ssh public key is available,
additional information about yourself,
your education and experience,
your website,
your online activity,
code contributions to free and libre software projects,
ID verification, and
references.

Support

Please post in this thread or in the companion thread at Nodeseek. For support requests, both Private Messages ("PMs") and emails are discouraged.

Email Privacy

MetalVPS uses Migadu for email. Thus, emails will at least pass through and probably will be stored at Migadu. Emails can be encrypted for additional privacy. MetalVPS stores, in plain text on @Not_Oles' Chromebook, a local working copy of some emails and other server Neighbor data, such as passwords and server logs. @Not_Oles also keeps a local, plain text backup on a removable hard disk.

Additional Contact Channels

Additional communication channels are available via Signal App and Jitsi.

Financial Contributions To LES and Nodeseek

Please send financial contributions to LES and to Nodeseek. Please tell LES and Nodeseek that you contributed partly because MetalVPS is here.

What People Are Saying

About MetalVPS

"I really enjoyed MetalVPS . . . I hope more people can learn together using MetalVPS."

"非常感谢Not_Oles分享免费的MetalVPS为大家使用！" "Big thanks to Not_Oles for sharing his MetalVPS for people to use!"

". . . [V]ery cool that MetalVPS is still a thing Thanks for providing this to the community, tinkering with servers is fun and a learning experience!"

"The permanent free shell account of MetalVPS is very fun!" ("MetalVPS的永久免费shell账号挺好玩的")

"This is really really cool."

"I enjoyed the section of the OP dedicated to complementary comments, including helpful links so they can be verified."

"MetalVPS used to be a high end provider, but it's becoming a sorority now."

"fun stuff indeed, appreciating the comfortable computing experience!"

"Liking my darkstar"

"Nice trial and results! Very interesting "

Metalvps recommended on OGF 🙈

"It just crossed my mind that I've been using your server for over half a year! It's been an amazing experience! . . . Your services deserve much more attention. "

"Wow pretty nice ! Congrats excellent options thanks for being a part of the community"

"the terms seemed exceptionally fair"

"Kernel Linux 5.11 is now in much better shape for AMD "

"Yes, please. I’ll take that."

"it's really quite dedicated. not all dedicated are the same."

"MetalVPS-AX101 has a reasonable price"

"really need a testing ground badly now especially with dedicated core"

"the fastest VPS I ever used"

"I've been using this one from him. Highly recommend! His support is really amazing!"

"10/10 metalvps recommended"

"very powerful"

"premium stuff"

"Grab it while the hotel still has vacant rooms."

". . . very passionate and enthusiastic about everything. Not all businesses are made this way and it's very easy to see when you interact with them. You are giving the right impression with this industry and it's wonderful to see."

"I think MetalVPS is designed in between a dedicated and a regular VPS. Some use case cannot fill the capacity of a dedicated but need more CPU than a regular VPS, and it makes sense to use MetalVPS in such situation."

About Not_Oles

"Tom, you're the best "

"I found it interesting that Tom still treats his free vps members like humans (it's really admirable). . . ."

"@Not_Oles is really a funfull and helpful grandpa!!"

"especially thanks @Not_Oles , He pointed out my problems and told me the correct way to share. He is a good guy."

"I'm not in need for any free vps at the moment, but thanks for what you're doing. If I had this chance few years ago, I think my life would be different."

"I did want to thank @Not_Oles for always being so friendly. Makes me smile seeing how nice you are to everyone here."

"You are a great person."

"Possibly the most polite and enthusiastic personality in the entire LE* world with a genuine interest that runs so deep he even set up a business exclusively catering for LES. as a regular content writer for LES his articles frequently top the charts in terms of most viewed (according to google)"

"Really, you're the best person I've known on the internet."

"we've found that good, in-depth technical articles tend to drive user interaction and new sign-ups on the forum. @Not_Oles's Proxmox articles are evidence of this."

"It was a pleasure for me to collaborate with Tom, he really knows what he's doing "

"Thanks again to @Not_Oles for valiant testing."

"you've brought a smile on my face countless times "

"Good luck with your new project! Happy to have you around here!"

"I always love how you come up with new ideas Good luck, mate!

"May you continue to learn and inspire others."

"he is a great guy!"

"he is the sweetest guy in LES .."

"Everybody loves @Not_Oles! "

"resplendent as the Sonoran Sun"

"god bless not_oles ^^"

"every time I visit les and see that profile picture, it brightens up my day."

"As for the new administrator, I nominate @Not_Oles."

"I would love to see @Not_Oles as a moderator or a bigger role."

"I would also support @Not_Oles as admin "

Thanks!

Tom gets a lot of help from the friendly MetalVPSians and from many other friends.

Thanks again and best wishes! 🇺🇸🗽🇲🇽🏜️🇫🇮🇩🇪🇹🇼🇨🇳

terrorgen · June 2023

🇹🇼🇨🇳

Let's see how many little pinks you attract 😜

Not_Oles · June 2023

Hi @terrorgen!

Here's a link to the ad as it appears on Nodeseek: https://www.nodeseek.com/post-8511-1#0

I will update the OP by inserting the Nodeseek ad link.

When I posted the ad on Nodeseek, I discovered that the translation process seemed to break a few links. There was an additional problem rendering one of the national flags. It was late, so I posted the ad on Nodeseek without the final "What People Are Saying" section.

Many of the guys from Nodeseek have been very fine! Really smart and hard working! It is a pleasure to be friends and to share a forum and a few servers with them!

As you yourself pointed out back when the idea of requiring ID was first proposed, fewer people will be interested when ID is involved, even if, as in the above ad, ID is optional.

People from everywhere are welcome at MetalVPS! 🌎🌍

Best wishes and kindest regards,

Tom

tang_cn · June 2023

@terrorgen said:
Let's see how many little pinks you attract 😜

🇨🇳

Thank you @Not_Oles ! Looking forward to the US West node.

Not_Oles · June 2023

@tang_cn said:

@terrorgen said:
Let's see how many little pinks you attract 😜

🇨🇳

Thank you @Not_Oles ! Looking forward to the US West node.

Hi @tang_cn! You are more than welcome! If you have a suggestion as to US West providers with awesome connectivity to Asia, then I would be glad to hear it.

somik · June 2023

Congrats on getting the server back online and open for "neighbors".

terrorgen · June 2023

@Not_Oles said:
Hi @terrorgen!

Here's a link to the ad as it appears on Nodeseek: https://www.nodeseek.com/post-8511-1#0

I will update the OP by inserting the Nodeseek ad link.

When I posted the ad on Nodeseek, I discovered that the translation process seemed to break a few links. There was an additional problem rendering one of the national flags. It was late, so I posted the ad on Nodeseek without the final "What People Are Saying" section.

Many of the guys from Nodeseek have been very fine! Really smart and hard working! It is a pleasure to be friends and to share a forum and a few servers with them!

As you yourself pointed out back when the idea of requiring ID was first proposed, fewer people will be interested when ID is involved, even if, as in the above ad, ID is optional.

People from everywhere are welcome at MetalVPS! 🌎🌍

Best wishes and kindest regards,

Tom

Not hard to guess which flag was not rendered correctly!

Not_Oles · June 2023

@somik said:
Congrats on getting the server back online and open for "neighbors".

Hi @somik! Thanks for the kind words!

Not_Oles · June 2023

@terrorgen said:

@Not_Oles said:
Hi @terrorgen!

Here's a link to the ad as it appears on Nodeseek: https://www.nodeseek.com/post-8511-1#0

I will update the OP by inserting the Nodeseek ad link.

When I posted the ad on Nodeseek, I discovered that the translation process seemed to break a few links. There was an additional problem rendering one of the national flags. It was late, so I posted the ad on Nodeseek without the final "What People Are Saying" section.

Many of the guys from Nodeseek have been very fine! Really smart and hard working! It is a pleasure to be friends and to share a forum and a few servers with them!

As you yourself pointed out back when the idea of requiring ID was first proposed, fewer people will be interested when ID is involved, even if, as in the above ad, ID is optional.

People from everywhere are welcome at MetalVPS! 🌎🌍

Best wishes and kindest regards,

Tom

Not hard to guess which flag was not rendered correctly!

I could be wrong. It was late, I was tired, and there seemed to be multiple broken links. I didn't take a screenshot. But, I seem to remember that it was the final flag in the row which might not have been rendered correctly. If I recall correctly, the final flag was rendered in the editor's preview function as what seemed to be two parts. The left part looked like an arrow pointing to the right, something like "=>". The right part looked like a capital N in a bigger and bolder typeface.

Checking again just now, the flag rendering seems okay. If I see a flag rendering issue again, I hopefully will remember to take a screenshot. I still don't know what happened about the seemingly random broken links. A few of them seemed to have an extra space inserted and others seemed to have newlines inserted. Most of the links were fine.

Thanks to the guys at Nodeseek for working hard to make a nice forum and for being kind to me over there. Thanks equally to our wonderful guys, especially @terrorgen, here at LES!

I continue to have a lot of fun playing with the server. Among other things I am still messing around with installs. I have been looking at installs via grub. I also have been trying to read some of the installimage shell scripts. I found a script to install Alpine in a chroot. Haha, the install took only 2.4 seconds.

[ . . . ]
    60  time /root/alpine-chroot-install/alpine-chroot-install -d /altroot -p build-base -p cmakie
[ . . . ]
   146  ---
   147  Alpine installation is complete
   148  Run /altroot/enter-chroot [-u <user>] [command] to enter the chroot
   149  and /altroot/destroy [--remove] to destroy it.
   150  
   151  real    0m2.415s
   152  user    0m1.269s
   153  sys     0m0.349s
   154  root@fsn ~/alpine-chroot-install # /altroot/enter-chroot -u root
   155  ~ # cat /etc/alpine-release
   156  3.18.0
   157  ~ #

I've since moved the alpine-chroot-install script to /usr/local/bin and have been running it with different options.

Also I've been messing with the Rawhide daily isos and with NetBSD.

A few days ago, I posted about systemd-nspawn. I haven't tried it yet, but I might.

I've also been reading little pieces of many C programming books, looking at code repositories, and trying easy exercises.

It's amazing that the server now has ten days of uptime! I will have to fix that soon! But during these ten days, I doubt that anyone sharing the server would have been inconvenienced by anything I have been doing. The load averages suggest that there is extra capacity.

root@fsn ~ # uptime
 20:37:47 up 10 days, 21:15,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
root@fsn ~ #

Except for saying, "People from everywhere are welcome at MetalVPS! 🌎🌍" how about if we please try to keep politics to other threads and please try to keep this thread for fun MetalVPS server stuff? Thanks!

schism · June 2023

Ok I am probably going to screw up begging for one of these but here goes.......

I just want to play with different machines and learn how they work. You have seen my post on here, I'm kind of an idiot and have to poke at stuff to learn it.

Now in the hopes I don't embarrass myself too horribly I think this is the key I'm supposed to post....

ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIFEwFcyr5o4JVNi5K4HO1j7mkD9ky8+MuUbP3nnxHg9t schisms-public-key

Not_Oles · June 2023

@schism said:
Ok I am probably going to screw up begging for one of these but here goes.......

I just want to play with different machines and learn how they work. You have seen my post on here, I'm kind of an idiot and have to poke at stuff to learn it.

Now in the hopes I don't embarrass myself too horribly I think this is the key I'm supposed to post....

ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIFEwFcyr5o4JVNi5K4HO1j7mkD9ky8+MuUbP3nnxHg9t schisms-public-key

Hi Bill!

Welcome to LES! Glad to see that you are enjoying it here and that you have some very well received posts and comments!

Thanks for your request! Let's see if we can score it according to the factors mentioned in the OP.

LES/Nodeseek account longevity and contributions

Looks like your account has been here a little over two months. You have 3 discussions and 83 comments. Excellent!

Additionally, you said:

"I was compiling some code on gcc and wasn't paying that much attention to what I was compiling and just cloned the git I was looking at and went go. (adult add is thing) The git was xmrig and of course about 20% of the way to compiling it was suspended for mining."

Impressive! I don't know anything about xmrig!

Your use case for the server

"Play with different machines and learn how they work" sounds great! Maybe there could be something specific about the i9-13900 which you find interesting, but, if so, you didn't mention it. From your other posts you seem to have a lot of servers already. That's great!

Your website