Would you like a VPS on these terms?
- Clueless administrator who says he has no technical background and limited technical skills.
- No graphical panel
- NAT VPS
- No onboarding
- No knowledge base
- Takes a while to setup account
- Occasional maintenance reboots
- No backups
- Owners consider your VPS ephemeral
What kind of offer is that?!?
Well, there’s a couple more bullet points:
- VMs are FREE (sometimes)
- It’s a community project run by our own @Not_Oles
What I’m referring to is MetalVPS. It’s a “pay what you think is right” service, or as they put it:
- Minimum price offers like $1.01 will be considered. Free offers will be considered too.
You can also get accounts for $1.01/ONCE.
So should you put your small business shopping cart on MetalVPS? No! But if you have hobby projects, monitoring scripts, or other non-critical issues, why not give MetalVPS a try?
Lots more to read including YABS in @Not_Oles latest thread on LowEndTalk.
Raindog308 is a longtime LowEndTalk community administrator, technical writer, and self-described techno polymath. With deep roots in the *nix world, he has a passion for systems both modern and vintage, ranging from Unix, Perl, Python, and Golang to shell scripting and mainframe-era operating systems like MVS. He’s equally comfortable with relational database systems, having spent years working with Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
As an avid user of LowEndBox providers, Raindog runs an empire of LEBs, from tiny boxes for VPNs, to mid-sized instances for application hosting, and heavyweight servers for data storage and complex databases. He brings both technical rigor and real-world experience to every piece he writes.
Beyond the command line, Raindog is a lover of German Shepherds, high-quality knives, target shooting, theology, tabletop RPGs, and hiking in deep, quiet forests.
His goal with every article is to help users, from beginners to seasoned sysadmins, get more value, performance, and enjoyment out of their infrastructure.
You can find him daily in the forums at LowEndTalk under the handle @raindog308.
I appreciate the risk and adventure if someone buys hosting or vps from this provider
Hi @raindog308! Thanks for featuring MetalVPS! I liked your logo! May I please use it for MetalVPS? Thanks again! Tom
I grant you a free license to use it :-)
Ping me on LET if you want the .PSD and font file.
Thanks so much @raindog308! Very cool! :)