MetalVPS Fedora Rawhide Shell Accounts, VPSes, Containers, And Chroots!

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MetalVPS Fedora Rawhide Shell Accounts, VPSes, Containers, And Chroots!

MetalVPS gives you a traditional shell account on Radium, our new Fedora Rawhide server at Hetzner FSN1 in Germany. You can use Radium in any awesome way you want. You can work directly in your shell, and you can install your own NAT IPv4 and IPv6 VPSes, containers, or chroots. KVM access and sudo are available.

With a traditional shell account you can see how many neighbors are using the server, some of what they are doing, how hard the server is working, and exactly what software is installed. No worries about overselling! No worries about VPS hypervisor overhead! No worries about old hypervisor versions and old operating system versions!

Rawhide is especially nice for educational, non-production use. Rawhide compiles and distributes kernels right out of Linus Torvalds' Git sources. Most other software in Rawhide's packaging system also tends to be newer, sometimes much newer, than what is packaged in the downstream releases.

Here, from the command line, you can see some of Radium's specifications.

[not_oles@radium ~]$ date -u
Thu Sep 28 06:16:30 PM UTC 2023
[not_oles@radium ~]$ uname -r # Running recent Linux kernel from Git!
6.6.0-0.rc3.20230927git0e945134b680.28.fc40.x86_64
[not_oles@radium ~]$ cat /etc/fedora-release 
Fedora release 40 (Rawhide)
[not_oles@radium ~]$ lscpu | grep "Model name" 
Model name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1275 v5 @ 3.60GHz # Geekbench 6 Single Core Score 1419!
[not_oles@radium ~]$ free -h
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            62Gi       871Mi        61Gi       864Ki       316Mi        61Gi # Radium has 64 GB RAM!
Swap:          8.0Gi          0B       8.0Gi
[not_oles@radium ~]$ sudo dmidecode | grep DDR
        Type: DDR4
        Type: DDR4 # All four RAM memory modules are DDR4!
        Type: DDR4
        Type: DDR4
[not_oles@radium ~]$ sudo dmidecode | grep Width | grep -v Partition
        Total Width: 72 bits
        Data Width: 64 bits
        Total Width: 72 bits
        Data Width: 64 bits 
        Total Width: 72 bits # All four RAM memory modules are ECC!
        Data Width: 64 bits
        Total Width: 72 bits
        Data Width: 64 bits
[not_oles@radium ~]$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md127      741G   21G  683G   3% / # RAID 0 for faster NVMe performance!
  [ . . . ]
/dev/nvme1n1p2   98G   24K   93G   1% /altroot0 # Empty partition ready for chroot fun! 
  [ . . . ]
/dev/nvme0n1p2   98G   24K   93G   1% /altroot1 # Another empty partition ready for chroot fun!
  [ . . . ]
[not_oles@radium ~]$

What's New On Radium?

  • Newly installed dnf package groups "C Development Tools and Libraries", "Development Tools", and "Development Libraries"!

  • Locally compiled Python from Github!

[not_oles@radium ~]$ which python # Locally compiled is the default.
/usr/local/bin/python
[not_oles@radium ~]$ python -V # Locally compiled python is version 3.13.0a0.
Python 3.13.0a0
[not_oles@radium ~]$ /usr/bin/python -V # Version 3.12.0rc3 was installed by Rawhide's package manager.
Python 3.12.0rc3
[not_oles@radium ~]$

Warnings!

  • Clueless™ administrator with no technical background and with "limited technical skills. . . ." 😀 @Not_Oles frequently messes up! 😱

  • @Not_Oles is especially clueless™ about Debian, Fedora, and all other OSes. 🤗

  • Sometimes trusted MetalVPSians might or might not get sudo. 🙈🙉🙊

  • MetalVPS has no billing panel and no server control panel. It's all command line via ssh 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! 🤑

  • Daily or sometimes even more 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 server 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 to this thread. 🍔

Terms Of Service

  • Be awesome!
  • White Hat only!
  • Radium is not for business use!
  • Radium is intended for education and fun!
  • 100% open source software only!
  • Hetzner TOS also applies!

Equipment Cost And Ownership

  • Rent paid to Hetzner for Radium is €26.70 per month (VAT inapplicable outside of the EU). That's approximately US$28.34 per month.

Pricing

  • Radium shell account + VPS: US$7.00 per month, recurring if continued, but no commitment to continue.

  • Dedicated, bare metal servers: Custom per server pricing. Can be fully managed, unmanaged, or anything in between.

  • MetalVPS might give free accounts to those in need. So, please don't hesitate to ask.

Payment

  • Payment methods are available in US dollars via Zelle or via Paypal (and maybe also via Stripe). Maybe we could figure out an additional payment method if there is some other way you want to pay.

  • No payment is due until your shell account is set up and you are 100% satisfied.

How To Sign Up

  • Please post here in this thread. Please include your ed25519 ssh public key.

More About MetalVPS!

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  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer

    Yabs from August 30, 2023.

    [not_oles@rawhide ~]$ curl -sL yabs.sh | bash
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2023-04-23                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #

Wed Aug 30 02:12:22 AM UTC 2023

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 6 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1275 v5 @ 3.60GHz
CPU cores  : 8 @ 3600.000 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 62.6 GiB
Swap       : 8.0 GiB
Disk       : 936.5 GiB
Distro     : Fedora Linux 40 (Rawhide Prerelease)
Kernel     : 6.5.0-57.fc40.x86_64
VM Type    : NONE
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online

IPv6 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : Hetzner Online GmbH
ASN        : AS24940 Hetzner Online GmbH
Location   : Falkenstein, Saxony (SN)
Country    : Germany

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 463.66 MB/s (115.9k) | 1.18 GB/s    (18.4k)
Write      | 464.89 MB/s (116.2k) | 1.18 GB/s    (18.5k)
Total      | 928.55 MB/s (232.1k) | 2.36 GB/s    (36.9k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 1.28 GB/s     (2.5k) | 1.13 GB/s     (1.1k)
Write      | 1.35 GB/s     (2.6k) | 1.20 GB/s     (1.1k)
Total      | 2.63 GB/s     (5.1k) | 2.34 GB/s     (2.2k)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 182 Mbits/sec   | 495 Mbits/sec   | 19.9 ms        
Scaleway        | Paris, FR (10G)           | 925 Mbits/sec   | 920 Mbits/sec   | 21.3 ms        
NovoServe       | North Holland, NL (40G)   | 931 Mbits/sec   | 936 Mbits/sec   | 12.1 ms        
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 882 Mbits/sec   | 644 Mbits/sec   | 93.5 ms        
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 46.7 Mbits/sec  | 92.8 Mbits/sec  | 85.4 ms        
Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 30.6 Mbits/sec  | busy            | 129 ms         
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 25.9 Mbits/sec  | 39.5 Mbits/sec  | 154 ms        

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 168 Mbits/sec   | 309 Mbits/sec   | 19.9 ms        
Scaleway        | Paris, FR (10G)           | 913 Mbits/sec   | 921 Mbits/sec   | 21.7 ms        
NovoServe       | North Holland, NL (40G)   | busy            | busy            | 12.1 ms        
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | busy            | 655 Mbits/sec   | 93.6 ms        
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 46.0 Mbits/sec  | 74.1 Mbits/sec  | 85.3 ms        
Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 31.1 Mbits/sec  | 42.5 Mbits/sec  | 124 ms         
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 25.9 Mbits/sec  | 34.6 Mbits/sec  | 154 ms     

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 1419                          
Multi Core      | 4692                          
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/2434899

YABS completed in 13 min 13 sec
[not_oles@rawhide ~]$

    I hope everyone gets the servers they want!

  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer
    edited September 2023

    network-speed.xyz from August 29, 2023

    ---------------------------- network-speed.xyz ----------------------------
      A simple script to test network performance using speedtest-cli      
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Version            : v2023.08.28
 Global Speedtest   : wget -qO- network-speed.xyz | bash
 Region Speedtest   : wget -qO- network-speed.xyz | bash -s -- -r <region>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Basic System Info
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 CPU Model          : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1275 v5 @ 3.60GHz
 CPU Cores          : 8 @ 2099.999 MHz
 CPU Cache          : 8192 KB
 AES-NI             : ✔ Enabled
 VM-x/AMD-V         : ✔ Enabled
 Total Disk         : 936.5 GB (2.9 GB Used)
 Total RAM          : 62.6 GB (876.3 MB Used)
 Total Swap         : 8.0 GB (0 Used)
 System uptime      : 0 days, 10 hour 13 min
 Load average       : 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
 OS                 : Fedora release 40 (Rawhide)
 Arch               : x86_64 (64 Bit)
 Kernel             : 6.5.0-57.fc40.x86_64
 Virtualization     : NONE
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Basic Network Info
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Primary Network    : IPv4
 ISP                : Hetzner Online GmbH
 ASN                : AS24940 Hetzner Online GmbH
 Host               : Hetzner
 Location           : Falkenstein, Saxony-SN, Germany
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Speedtest.net (Region: GLOBAL)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Location         Latency     Loss    DL Speed       UP Speed       Server     

 ISP: Hetzner Online 

 Nearest          8.19 ms     0.0%    941.19 Mbps    933.53 Mbps    Netcom Kassel Gesellschaft für Telekommunikation mbH - Kassel 

 Kochi, IN        159.73 ms   0.0%    721.27 Mbps    554.10 Mbps    Asianet Broadband - Cochin 
 Bangalore, IN    132.91 ms   0.0%    911.80 Mbps    504.34 Mbps    Bharti Airtel Ltd - Bangalore 
 Chennai, IN      149.52 ms   N/A     702.13 Mbps    580.14 Mbps    Jio - Chennai 
 Mumbai, IN       129.51 ms   0.0%    848.48 Mbps    659.42 Mbps    i3D.net - Mumbai 
 Delhi, IN        148.31 ms   0.0%    610.54 Mbps    599.35 Mbps    Tata Teleservices Ltd - New Delhi 

 Seattle, US      177.80 ms   0.0%    840.28 Mbps    509.46 Mbps    DediPath - Seattle, WA 
 Los Angeles, US  152.30 ms   0.0%    700.96 Mbps    426.14 Mbps    ReliableSite Hosting - Los Angeles, CA 
 Dallas, US       119.13 ms   0.0%    766.23 Mbps    705.90 Mbps    Hivelocity - Dallas, TX 
 Miami, US        130.34 ms   0.0%    898.79 Mbps    660.82 Mbps    AT&T - Miami, FL 
 New York, US     85.19 ms    0.0%    963.95 Mbps    904.54 Mbps    GSL Networks - New York, NY 
 Toronto, CA      106.87 ms   0.0%    876.33 Mbps    783.18 Mbps    Rogers - Toronto, ON 

 London, UK       23.91 ms    0.0%    948.88 Mbps    933.27 Mbps    VeloxServ Communications - London 
 Amsterdam, NL    11.63 ms    0.0%    942.32 Mbps    934.38 Mbps    Clouvider Ltd - Amsterdam 
 Paris, FR        24.31 ms    N/A     950.76 Mbps    934.40 Mbps    Axione - Paris 
 Frankfurt, DE    5.64 ms     0.0%    941.57 Mbps    933.25 Mbps    23M GmbH - Frankfurt am Main 
 Warsaw, PL       43.74 ms    0.0%    943.09 Mbps    914.66 Mbps    UPC Polska - Warszawa 
 Bucharest, RO    32.23 ms    0.0%    942.85 Mbps    921.50 Mbps    Vodafone Romania Fixed – Bucharest - Bucharest 

 Jeddah, KSA      66.45 ms    0.0%    941.61 Mbps    926.40 Mbps    Saudi Telecom Company 
 Dubai, AE        129.46 ms   0.0%    893.28 Mbps    670.48 Mbps    du - Dubai  
 Fujairah, AE     113.83 ms   0.0%    960.00 Mbps    735.78 Mbps    ETISALAT-UAE - Fujairah 

 Tokyo, JP        247.20 ms   N/A     649.30 Mbps    283.63 Mbps    fdcservers.net - Tokyo 
 Shenyang, CU-CN  367.36 ms   22.3%   65.95 Mbps     0.34 Mbps      Unicom - Shenyang 
 Nanjing, CT-CN   235.37 ms   10.1%   474.83 Mbps    1.00 Mbps      China Telecom JiangSu 5G - Nanjing 
 Hong Kong, HKG   157.00 ms   N/A     879.75 Mbps    564.06 Mbps    STC - Hong Kong 
 Singapore, SG    164.67 ms   0.0%    532.97 Mbps    554.58 Mbps    i3D.net - Singapore 
 Jakarta, ID      177.79 ms   0.0%    634.67 Mbps    321.24 Mbps    PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia - Jakarta 
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Avg DL Speed       : 795.70 Mbps
 Avg UL Speed       : 646.29 Mbps

 Total DL Data      : 29.74 GB
 Total UL Data      : 23.58 GB
 Total Data         : 53.33 GB
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Duration           : 13 min 8 sec
 System Time        : 29/08/2023 - 04:44:39 UTC
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Unable to share result online - There is some issue with the online uploader.
 Result stored locally in /home/not_oles/network-speed.txt
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
[not_oles@e3 ~]$

    I hope everyone gets the servers they want!

  • JabJab

    omg, Fedora.

    Thanked by (1)Not_Oles

    Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.
    https://lowendspirit.com/uploads/editor/gi/ippw0lcmqowk.png

  • yoursunnyyoursunny OG

    omg, DNF Didn't Find it

    Thanked by (1)Not_Oles

    ServerFactory aff best VPS; HostBrr aff best storage.

  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer

    @jab, @yoursunny

    For me, it's fun to try viewing the world from different perspectives from time to time. :)

    Thanked by (1)FrankZ

    I hope everyone gets the servers they want!

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