Hosteroid has kindly given @Not_Oles and MetalVPS a free dedicated server to be used for the benefit of the LES community. @Not_Oles and MetalVPS are offering free shell accounts on this excellent Hosteroid server. From your shell account, you can do anything which is friendly, reasonable, fair, and White Hat.

Why:

• Fun discussion and learning here in this, our LES thread.
• Every time I ( @Not_Oles ) touch a server I learn much more about how much more I need to learn.
• I need you guys to teach me.

Specs:

• CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1240 v5
• Cores: 4
• Threads: 8
• RAM: 2 x 16 GB DDR4 ECC
• Disk: 1 TB M.2 NVMe
• IPv4: 1 x /32
• IPv6: 1 x /48
• Network: 1 Gbps
• Bandwidth: 15 TB
• Location: Bucharest, Romania
• OS: Debian 12.10
• Server name: hlcs = Hosteroid LES Community Server
• Hetrix Tools IPv4 Ping Monitor
• Hetrix Tools IPv6 Ping Monitor

Rules:

• Free, open source software only.
• White Hat only.
• @Not_Oles must know who and where you are.
• For well known and well loved LESbians.
• Active participation in this thread is required.
• No service level guarantee.
• Not for business use.
• Zero abuse tolerance.

More Info:

• Besides working in your shell account via ssh, at least chroot, debootstrap, schroot, proot, KVM VPSes, LXC, and systemd containers might be available. BashVM is installed (Thanks @babywhale! ) to help with NAT KVM installs. There is 1 IPv4/32 and 1 IPv6/48. Additional IPs might be available. The server root account or certain privileges might be shared.

• Additional installs already include or might soon include Apache2, GCC and friends, Plan9port, Python, MIT-Scheme, Pre-Scheme Restoration, Racket, Lua, Luajit, Go, NetBSD pkgsrc, the TUHS Unixtree, and more. As yet, no X or Wayland.

• MetalVPS is an indie project of Tom Miller.

• Please see Community Bare Metal Server for @Not_Oles' original server request and @Hosteroid's kind donation. That thread is where @Not_Oles used the POWER of LES to meet the POWER of Hosteroid!

How To Apply:

• Please post in this thread. Please explain what you want to do on our server.

• When you post in this thread about what you want to do on the server, please also post in this thread or email @Not_Oles at the address on his profile: links to your website, to your source code repository, and to other online profiles. Please remember that, quoting from the Rules above, "@Not_Oles must know who and where you are." Some people send scans of government and university ID. Other people send other or additional things. Unfortunately @Not_Oles can't see many pages on Twitter, Facebook, and on LinkedIn because logins are required. Sorry for any inconvenience!

• One of our friendly Administrators here at LES, Mason, is a great example of somebody whose request for an account would be accepted right away. Thanks to @Mason for kind permission to link to his pages.

  • a community presence here at LES https://lowendspirit.com/profile/Mason,
  • a website at https://rowe.sh/,
  • a LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/masonrowe, and
  • a repository at https://github.com/masonr.

• A little flexibility helps a lot. I haven't checked to see whether Mason's public pages contain an address with a street number. Maybe someone else does things a little differently than Mason but still has a public presence and an identity that's easy to find. There might be a few LESbians who are well enough known here that not much else is necessary.

• I appreciate that many people here on the Low End have important and fully legitimate concerns about privacy. I respect those concerns! Happily there are many options available here on our beautiful Low End for people concerned about privacy.

Thanks Hosteroid! Thanks LES!