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FediMeteo: A EUR4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service
Author : birdculture
Score : 375 points
Date : 2025-12-30 19:21 UTC (1 days ago)
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| dashzebra wrote:
| Ooh just what I needed, thanks!
| draga79 wrote:
| thank you!
| ajoseps wrote:
| great write up and breakdown of the project. you can do a lot
| with a small VPS
| draga79 wrote:
| thanks!
| blain wrote:
| > German provider with 4 shared cores, 4GB of RAM, 120GB of SSD
| disk space, and a 1Gbit/sec internet connection
|
| Where on earth did he find EUR4 VPS with these specs. For example
| Hetzner's cheapest VPS has 2 shared vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB NVME
| SSD.
|
| The cheapest I found is https://contabo.com/en/vps/ but it still
| doesn't have 1 gb/s connection with that price.
|
| Edit: typo
| draga79 wrote:
| this: https://www.netcup.com/de/server/vps/vps-500-g11s
| riedel wrote:
| This one was slightly above 4 EUR (but without any minimum
| contract duration)
|
| Here are actually the 4 EUR and below offers:
| https://www.netcup.com/de/server/guenstige-vserver-angebote
|
| Funnily I on first sight could not find the same page in
| english.
| 47282847 wrote:
| https://www.lowendbox.com/ is a popular source.
| lbotos wrote:
| I came here to fight you but there are some low end boxes
| with lots of ram and disk for pretty cheap!
|
| Found this as an example: https://lowendbox.com/blog/black-
| friday-bytehosting-is-here-...
| Imustaskforhelp wrote:
| The bytehosting deal is good too! Oh btw lowendbox has a
| forum called lowendtalk where hosting providers etc. talk
| as well and show deals etc. and I got part of the community
| (you need to register and be verified manually but it
| wasn't hard)
|
| Lowendbox is amazing. Glad we are talking about it as I
| recently joined it and the community's really supportive
| and honestly feels more so in the sharing spirit and I even
| talked about why people use lowendhosts etc. and got some
| pretty good answers imo
|
| Although do be beware to stay away as there are some
| hosters which end up going completely down. So go with
| someone reputable as well and there is whole lore beneath
| in this forum :)
|
| Racknerd,dedirock are usually recommended, I recommend
| https://serverdeals.cc/ etc. I have a list which I can
| recommend after being in the community for some time and
| here's some websites which I recommend for suggestions
|
| https://serverdeals.cc/
|
| https://vpspricetracker.com/
|
| https://getdeploying.com/
|
| Honestly I still recommend hetzner tho because these are
| some really really good deals but hetzner just has this
| reputation of more stability and I jsut have more faith in
| hetzner and its a "good enough" option imo and there are
| even some lowendhosts who kind of do share the fact that
| hetzner is very price competitive.
|
| I personally had gotten a 2$/month 1TB vps hosting (yeah
| didn't really end up using it much aside from the shock
| factor/running yabs on it)
|
| and also I got a 3 month 8bucks deal with netcup using
| their vouchers and everything to get 8 gigs of ram 4vcpus
| etc and honestly this was the best deal I ever saw but I
| will have to pay 5 bucks I guess after the 3 months end.
|
| Most of it is remaining idle tho :< Are there any services
| I can run for the benefit of humanity (like running some
| self hosted services that can help anybody out there or
| smth?)
|
| Let me know if you have any questions! I might be able to
| help you as I was active on lowendtalk till quite recently
| numpad0 wrote:
| How did these came to existence? Most of these offerings
| look basically identical. Is it ran by the same guy
| behind, or is it like a get rich quick network business
| stuff?
| Imustaskforhelp wrote:
| To be honest there is one instance that i know of where
| what ends up happening is that colocrossing a major vps
| provider does end up doing something like this (they used
| to be hosters/owners???? of lowendtalk/lowendbox)
|
| Now another aspect is that the hosting economy is very
| mutual, they all start out somewhere and they are usually
| friendly towards each other. Most Hosting providers start
| out by either using reseller service directly or by
| colocating or by reselling dedicated servers which can be
| themselves of other providers
|
| I don't know but the community is both cut throat and
| chill at the same time. It's strange to point this
| phenomenon but I think my point of their friendliness is
| something which depends and I don't know much about it
| but I once asked people on lowendtalk if I wanted to
| create a cloud provider myself and I got some responses
| and they were friendly so I am basing it off of that
|
| Another aspect is that the market has already raced to
| the bottom super hard. Hetzner/OVH are really cheap, so
| to get even cheaper, you kinda have to be in the same
| pricing range I guess
|
| Fun or not so fun fact but do you know that there have
| been cases of lowendbox providers to actually go shut
| down because they take these completely no profitable
| sense deal and actually lose money sometimes. VeloxMedia
| is a recent example of that and there is still
| controversy surrounding it.
|
| There is also the fact that the scam industry in this
| department works as such:
|
| Rent a really big server with lots of cores for a few
| months
|
| Sell them unreasonably in LET for the year pricing or
| more
|
| Then sell the company/be unable to provide/etc.
|
| these I think are called as deadpools in the community.
|
| Also regarding your comment behind same guy, there are
| sometimes family relations between people
|
| as an example, racknerd I think is owned by the stepson
| of the owner of colocrossing and they I think using
| colocrossing themselves.
|
| These have their own little drama stories and I think
| this is just the tip of iceberg as I just joined recently
| and probably digging through old archives.
| IgorPartola wrote:
| Some of these are resellers. Big provider sells them a
| package of 10-1000 VPSs and they set up websites to sell
| them to you. But you can also find lots of direct deals
| as well. BuyVM famously has their $15/year deal on a 1GB
| VPS. You can also often find dedicated servers for like
| $25/month. I recently bought a $75 lifetime deal on some
| email hosting for up to 25 domains and I think 250GB
| storage. Great for some secondary domains and such that I
| use. There are some real gems out there and you should
| see their Black Friday threads. Kind of a wild place.
| Imustaskforhelp wrote:
| There are lots of even cheaper deals than buyvm usually
| with racknerd and dedirock. Black friday deals are
| absolutely amazing but always go with someone a bit more
| reputed and Buyvm's an amazing choice too although they
| would be considered "pricey" in comparison to someone
| (just a few $'s) (I have joined their discord server)
|
| I think racknerd recently did a 6.85$ or similar deal but
| the point of these deals become is that they become
| insanely overprovisioned and it becomes a showpiece of
| sorts "look what deal I got ;P" kinda not sure.
|
| I think another fascinating deal about lowendtalk is that
| man those people have this faith in small hosting
| providers and giving chances to them etc. hoping that
| they become big as well. There are very few places like
| lowendtalk on the internet. I find a lot of similarities
| with the hackernews culture although more focused on
| deals/hosting although its definitely more casual than
| hackernews.
| IgorPartola wrote:
| The weird thing is that it seems like some people are
| almost addicted to buying these boxes and I am not sure
| if the use cases. It almost has a feeling of gambling.
|
| I used to get boxes from there for a specific product I
| had (ability to ping from multiple places around the
| globe to see what your latency was like) and one provider
| did burn me but the rest were pretty great.
|
| I just wish more of them provided a proper native IPv6
| stack. Still can't understand why this isn't standard for
| all.
| Imustaskforhelp wrote:
| > The weird thing is that it seems like some people are
| almost addicted to buying these boxes and I am not sure
| if the use cases. It almost has a feeling of gambling.
|
| Oh boy I had thought about this too. There are only quite
| a few uses of the completely cheap one. Perhaps for the
| chinese people, it acts as a VPN
|
| Like I thought about the use cases and they were hard for
| me to find when you consider all the "free" stuff that's
| launched too. I think to me, some aspects of lowend are
| for the novelty factor (oh a 2$ 1TB server sign me up!)
| and what ends up happening is that I didn't really use
| the storage much so my opinion was nice whereas someone
| else who used it said that, it's a bad deal
|
| You are right about this though, but still its just
| fascinating to find the deals and then like the fact is,
| they are still pretty small and you can just go talk to
| them and I think this customization and more discussion
| (hey does your product allow my usecase) etc. are some
| few reason
|
| I once asked on the forum why they aren't using
| hetzner,upcloud etc. and someone replied with the fact
| that they want to make the small one win.
|
| I don't think its completely gambling but you may end up
| buying something that you don't need much (I ended up
| with a netcup 8 gig server I guess) in a similar way. But
| now I kind of know that beating hetzner,ovh, (upcloud's
| more expensive) is possible perhaps but that if you want
| ton of servers fast and cheap, there is a possibility but
| I might still recommend companies like
| hetzner,ovh,upcloud etc. for any professional use, its
| just I would be thrown less under the bus as compared to
| if I have somebody idk set up in dedirock
|
| One of the reasons why I stopped frequenting lowendtalk,
| might go next black friday perhaps but I don't even know,
| like there are tons of services now which can offer vm's
| cheap and fast and just similar to what you might buy
| from that. There are tons of these I use so I don't
| really know if buying cheap servers might make sense
|
| One of the reasons I (liked?) the idea of buying cheap
| servers is that one can always scale when needed and they
| could then use something like these lowendproviders
| instead of vercel who initially might be free but then is
| super expensive. But I think that we are seeing some
| options which are free but not gonna be super expensive
| or that expensive perhaps.
|
| The thing is, to me, its nice knowing a place like
| lowendtalk exists. I might go into its rabbit hole again
| or not I guess but I don't really know.
| toast0 wrote:
| There's some commercial software to sell/resell VPS, etc
| that some of these outfits use.
|
| And it's pretty much a commodity business, so things are
| going to tend to look similar. If you're buying $5/month
| VPS, you don't want to pay for a lot of fluff. A lot of
| these are small time local hosters in a single location,
| but that's usually all you need for a small site.
| Imustaskforhelp wrote:
| Its usually WHMCS + virtfusion
|
| There are alternatives but usually all just go use these
| for some reason
|
| This is also why a lot of these websites might look
| similar as well.
| tn1 wrote:
| WHMCS is probably the easiest batteries-included tool for
| the job, giving billing, management, and a customer
| support portal. These could be unbundled or reinvented
| but for your average hosting company there's no point in
| doing so.
| ksec wrote:
| LowEndBox is as old as HN and has been doing VPS deals
| before the cloud took over. There are also deals offering
| for VPN services as well.
| p2detar wrote:
| I'm on Hetzner as well; migrated from DigitalOcean. They
| are stable, but they got a bit of bad reputation, since
| they were hacked at least 2 times already [0] [1]. Stable
| != Secure.
|
| 0 - https://www.heise.de/news/Hetzner-gehackt-
| Kundendaten-kopier...
|
| 1 - https://www.zdnet.com/article/hackers-breach-web-
| hosting-pro...
|
| edit: links
| elxr wrote:
| Wow, this is amazing. Tempted to try one of their $2/month
| suggestions.
| selcuka wrote:
| A random provider could be a hit-or-miss. I've personally
| used RackNerd (found them on LowEndBox/Talk) in the past
| and can't complain for the price. They have plans under
| $1/month, and they even provide an IPv4 address:
|
| https://www.racknerd.com/BlackFriday/
|
| No affiliation, just a happy customer.
| znpy wrote:
| I had wildly varying experiences with companies i found on
| lowendbox.com
|
| Some were fine, some offered a very good yearly plan but
| vanished after three weeks.
|
| So yeah... people should keep that in mind.
| giancarlostoro wrote:
| buyvm used to have one (not with those specs) for like $5 a
| year with 256 MB I used to love buying one or two of those for
| simple stuff.
| Imustaskforhelp wrote:
| I am also of a similar belief but I recently found exe.dev on
| hackernews and I am kind of play-testing with it and the dev
| seems active on hackernews and on the discord so I am
| definitely giving it a go
|
| Gullos Hosting which has 128 Mb server for 3.5$/yearly and
| also for $4.49 you can still get a 256mb server from
| C-servers and $5.50 from byteVirt.
|
| But also, there is fact that one can probably just buy
| hetzner servers or upcloud servers or similar idk. I will
| probably try to get some free services and then transition to
| hetzner/upcloud/netcup when my project needs more
| scalability/is shown to be of valuable to the general
| public/interests regarding it.
|
| Honestly I got a 8 gig netcup server for 5$ and so I got it
| out of their limited deals section but I am thinking of just
| holding it and probably gonna use it extremely because with
| the rising prices etc., I think its good enough too as well
|
| I just love yapping about server prices and comparing them
| etc. I think I just love a good deal lol.
| KomoD wrote:
| > Gullos Hosting which has 128 Mb server for 3.5$/yearly
| and also for $4.49 you can still get a 256mb server from
| C-servers and $5.50 from byteVirt.
|
| I can't recommend Gullo's. I experienced near-constant
| network issues with my NAT VPS (in Poland, I think?),
| making it so unusable that I just let it idle until it
| expired. I should've spent the money on a 6 pack of beer
| instead, it is what it is.
| awesome_dude wrote:
| > now is a 4 euro per month VPS in Milano, Italy - 4 shared
| cores, 8 GB RAM and 75GB disk space.
|
| He didn't - he found a better specced one in Italy for that
| price
| draga79 wrote:
| Exactly. Same price but better specs. The current provider is
| OVH and they recently started to host VMs in Italy.
| Yeri wrote:
| there's EUR1 and EUR2 VPS too:
| https://www.strato.nl/server/vps-linux/ (not sure what the
| quality is but -\\_(tsu)_/-)
| weiliddat wrote:
| IME strato is OK for cheap VPSes as long as you don't have
| high expectations.
|
| 5-6 years ago, I remember trying to scale up to the 16/32GB
| tier was miserable and oversubscribed; moving to Hetzner at
| the same price point brought a huge performance boost (mostly
| on CPU and disk access speed).
| weiliddat wrote:
| Don't want to ding strato exclusively, likely the case for
| most $1-$4/month type hosting.
|
| Not bad as long as you know what you're getting yourself
| into.
| Aurornis wrote:
| Be careful when comparing core counts across providers. Those
| ultra cheap providers are using servers that can be many
| generations old. They might also be heavily oversubscribed. 4
| vCPU on one of the cheap providers could be slower than 2 vCPU
| or even 1 vCPU on a newer generation server. You really have to
| test or look at benchmarks.
|
| If you have a RAM-constrained application where CPU and RAM
| speed are less of a priority, they can be great deals though.
| sva_ wrote:
| Oracle Cloud gives you 4 oCPU (ARM), 24GB ram, 4Gb/s (10TB),
| 200GB NVMe SSD for free.
|
| Although some people say it is difficult to get an instance
| nowadays. But it worked for me and I've been using it for more
| than 2 years now. Some say that free tier users sometimes get
| booted, that's why one should upgrade to a paid account.
| joecool1029 wrote:
| I have one for testing arm64 stuff on Gentoo. Worst signup
| I've ever had with a company.
|
| Once I got account I could not spin up server until
| converting my account to paid. They've never charged a fee
| but they won't let you use 'always free' instances in busy
| regions until you convert to a paid account.
| LaurensBER wrote:
| The registration process is so cumbersome and annoying that I
| gave up. At that moment we were in contact with Oracle for a
| business contract at work, the horrible sign-up process,
| increasing CDS (Credit Default Swap) spread and risky AI
| investments made me decide to cancel the POC.
|
| If your sign-up tier is so frustrating to use that you loss
| sales and you cannot fix it as a company, that doesn't
| inspire confidence in the rest of the infrastructure...
| loloquwowndueo wrote:
| If your company is small enough that you don't have a full
| procurement department to deal with all this, you're of no
| interest to Oracle :)
| vjerancrnjak wrote:
| I cant even register.
| bix6 wrote:
| Awesome project! I've always dreamed of making my own weather
| service so this is a great inspiration.
| draga79 wrote:
| Thanks!
| terespuwash wrote:
| Amazing project I understand why FediFollows helped it get more
| visibility
| https://social.growyourown.services/@FediFollows/11565141936...
| draga79 wrote:
| Thank you!
| elcritch wrote:
| This is awesome! Small projects like this that take off are fun
| to read.
|
| Maybe I'm imaging it but FreeBSD really seems to have far less
| bloat than Linux distros and better latency. I just setup a $4/mo
| FreeBSD VM on Vultr with 1G RAM and 1vCPU and it's only using 12%
| of RAM with Caddy. A VM with 4GB of RAM and 4 vCPUs could serve
| _a lot_ of traffic.
|
| I'm wanting to create a personal blogging with a retro BBS-like
| web app with a text first interface with a multi-threaded Nim
| server + sqlite. I'm sure something exists already but it'd more
| for my own tinkering. No containers, no async, no javascript
| libraries. Just a small 4MB binary and FreeBSD. This posts
| encourages me on the FreeBSD route!
| draga79 wrote:
| Thank you!
| elcritch wrote:
| BTW, how do you feel about ActivityPub in general?
| draga79 wrote:
| I like it. It's not perfect, but it's a good way to make
| sure that platforms will continue to be able to federate.
| They're evolving and things will improve. The experience is
| much better today, compared to some years ago.
| RicoElectrico wrote:
| Unbloated distros exist, Alpine is one example. I was taken
| aback how snappy it is. Does everything without any undue
| delay. Merely logging in via SSH feels quicker as you don't
| have to wait a second for the prompt like on Ubuntu. apk is
| also super fast.
| elcritch wrote:
| True Alpine is pretty snappy. I don't like using it as muslc
| has given me headaches before. Arch is faster generally too
| but not as much. Maybe there's something with systemd stuff.
| Imustaskforhelp wrote:
| One could probably use VoidLinux or Gentoo with glibc I
| suppose if one might want leaner than arch but more heavier
| than arch
|
| Although VoidLinux's iso size I think is larger than
| ArchLinux or something which doesn't make that much sense
| but I don't really know but both are good references to
| check out.
| Imustaskforhelp wrote:
| Alpine is really good for servers.
|
| Man I love alpine even though I don't use it so much but
| alpine does hold a special place in my heart for some reason
| (and i think the reasons are good)
|
| Tinycore is another one which holds a special place in my
| heart, partially because its the most no BS simple alpine-
| like os that I have seen which is rather focused on the
| consumer side, so you can get GUI systems super quickly and
| minimalist.
|
| The minimalist tinycore iso with gui and terminals ran on
| 21-40 MB :) let that sink in
|
| They showed as 0.0% or 0.1% on my 8 gig computer.
|
| I used tinycore to take my really old laptop which my brother
| used to game on mostly and was super dead, it was a dell mini
| pc with intel atom 1 gig of ram 32 bit, probably 10-15 years
| old
|
| I ran tinycore on it with no problem and ended up with wifi
| access and then even ran modern firefox browser and ended up
| even running a website like https://pomodorokitty.com/ on it
|
| Man,do i love them both.
|
| I genuinely just wanted to create a service which could just
| boot tinycore gui servers in the browser perhaps via novnc
| for people to play with but I seriously wondered who might
| pay for the project
|
| Oh btw oops forget that you can already do that by just
| downloading the iso of tinycore and then going to copy.sh/v86
|
| In fact that inspired me to create the project but one of the
| issues of copy.sh/v86 is that its ephemeral and runs directly
| in your browser so if you close it whereas I thought of
| having a mini-server-like tinycore where I can get a gui mini
| server and can quickly open/close it with terminal and even
| heck modern browsers.
|
| Everyone should try out tinycore just once imo. The
| simplicity of 21 MB is mind boggling to me. Makes one really
| wonder what bloat really is I suppose, definitely a fun
| experience.
|
| Oh also I love alpine because I ran it in my phone using
| UserLand and I loved it although running python in alpine was
| a bit of mess on my phone and I think I ended up doing some
| wizard magic or something using g-compat in the end as well
| to run it. Although I think termux is pretty good and even
| better than UserLand in this context because UserLand runs
| emulated where Termux doesn't I guess but not sure.
| jaypatelani wrote:
| If you liked tinycore check this one https://smolbsd.org/
| yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
| Alpine is also pretty good as a desktop OS; I've got a
| desktop and laptop on Alpine, and another laptop on
| postmarketos (Alpine derivative).
| Imustaskforhelp wrote:
| Interesting, I had looked at postmarketos but it was too
| bloated for me perhaps the last time I looked as compared
| to tinycore which was truly super minimalist
|
| Like is there a way to get postmarketos with something
| like jwm or anything small perhaps? I would love to give
| alpine desktop a try, I think I did the disservice of not
| trying it enough then if you mention this
| yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
| IMO the only reason to use postmarketos is if your
| hardware doesn't support normal Alpine. If you've got a
| normal x86 machine, just install Alpine, run setup-xorg-
| base, apk add jwm, maybe some minor setup I'm forgetting,
| and you're set.
| timc3 wrote:
| Alpine used to leave performance on the table by default.
| Something to do with the compiler having a lot of safe
| options and not using some CPU extensions at the time.
|
| Don't know whether it is the case anymore, but it's
| something I proved in the past and then engineering
| deployed minimal Debian instead because it ended up being
| cheaper.
| YorickPeterse wrote:
| For Linux this will vary between distributions and
| configurations. For example, based on some testing I did today
| using mkosi [1] (for reasons unrelated to this discussion), a
| bare-bones Fedora 43 installation uses about 130 MiB of RAM,
| while a Debian installation uses a little more than 100 MiB.
|
| IIRC last time I tried a bare-bones FreeBSD installation it
| used about the same amount of memory, maybe a little more based
| on how ZFS is set up.
|
| [1]: https://github.com/systemd/mkosi
| tiltowait wrote:
| ZFS will happilly (and intentionally) gobble up available RAM
| for ARC. On my 64GB system, ARC is using 42.4GB, but this
| memory is quickly reclaimable if it's needed. That said, I
| had very bad experiences trying to run ZFS on an
| underprovisioned system.
| realusername wrote:
| The BSD utils are always much nicer to read than the GNU ones
| when you want to understand what's going on, there's no
| competition.
|
| I do prefer the GNU style licensing model & popularity but for
| the code itself, I prefer the BSD ones.
| ErroneousBosh wrote:
| > retro BBS-like web app
|
| You mean like oldschool dialup BBSes, or a forum-style
| "Bulletin Board"? If the latter, take a look at FlaskBB :-)
| andai wrote:
| I somehow remember Linux using half the resources it does
| today, 20 years ago. It occurs to me now for the first time,
| that this might be due to the switch to x64.
|
| That's probably not the only reason but it bothers me that I
| never considered that before! I remember at some point it used
| twice as much RAM for basically the same thing, and I remember
| being bothered by that.
|
| But I guess what you get in exchange for that is the ability to
| put in basically unlimited RAM.
| bityard wrote:
| It's just the price of progress. When I started playing with
| Linux, a full fledged Linux desktop with web browser and all
| ran very happily on a machine with 16 megabytes of RAM. At
| the time, there were distributions that fit on a floppy disk.
|
| Both are more or less impossible now, but I don't think we
| should think of 100mb of "background state" as bloated. The
| fact that your can get a lot of useful stuff done on Linux in
| under 512mb in 2026 while Windows and Mac need multiple GB
| just to get out of bed is pretty awesome.
| johnisgood wrote:
| > have far less bloat than Linux distros and better latency
|
| I think this has always been the norm from what I remember.
| That said, Arch Linux, KISS, Void, etc. are minimal enough,
| IMO.
| nicoburns wrote:
| FreeBSD may have less bloat, but I'm running a web server in a
| Linux container (debian-slim - so not even as small as you can
| go with linux) with only 256mb RAM (of which it is only using
| ~64mb).
| babo wrote:
| "I would pay close attention to accessibility: forecasts would be
| in local languages..." There are many situations where somebody
| is interesting about the local weather but not speaking the local
| language. Why overwrite the users preferred language from the
| browser?
| draga79 wrote:
| It doesn't. You can Always translate the text in your favourite
| language. The project aims to send the forecasts to the users,
| so can't be multilingual. Anyway, that's the reason why there
| are the emojis. Those ones are international.
| Imustaskforhelp wrote:
| 4 euro servers are good.
|
| I got a similar specced server for around 5$ I guess but it has
| 400 gigs of storage or 500 and I think all around it might be
| worth it.
|
| But to be fair it was a deal for 3 months for 8$ with vouchers
| and everything and Its only been a month but after the 3 months,
| I would have to pay 5$/5Euros but I think it might be worth it,
| not sure but there is definitely this power of not leaving once
| you have started to own a vps or similar, that pull is definitely
| real :)
|
| OVH is good company too, one of the cheapest overall in the
| markets. Some people themselves resell OVH servers or white-sell
| it, they are chill in this manner
|
| I think one of the benefits of OVH is its unlimited egress
| policy. Upcloud and OVH are the only two which offer something
| similar I suppose and I think OVH is on the more cheaper side but
| Upcloud support team did feel phenomenal to me (I wish I was
| sponsored by them)
|
| Pro tip but I have heard from people to talk to OVH through their
| twitter. I don't use twitter but yeah, also another idea for
| support could be to join their discord too, I think one of the
| core people once answered my simple question there (how to run
| docker in ovh servers/automate it) but they didn't answer some
| other question regarding the tos of ovh or similar which I can
| admit could be not sure if we should ask a developer about such
| things idk but overall all of these are pretty good options to
| pick!
|
| There is just something fun about optimizing about server prices
| and support and just this grid-like optimization that takes place
| in your head when you are interested in things like this.
| FitchApps wrote:
| Such a cool project. Thanks for building it. Amazing what one can
| do with a tiny VPS.
| xd1936 wrote:
| Aw man. Great write-up and implementation of an exact thing I've
| started to build myself, except I was build it stateless on
| Cloudflare Workers. Love this!
| isodev wrote:
| Very cool! And TIL about snac. It's fascinating how tiny and
| practical fediverse/ActivityPub components can be. Truly
| brilliant design and architecture. Thanks for sharing!
| iamkonstantin wrote:
| I like the idea that you can follow cities and they appear in
| the timeline. Also knowing it's all just markdown - let's just
| say it's refreshing to have things that don't endeavour to
| operate on hyperscale.
| lexicality wrote:
| Lovely to see someone building something that doesn't require
| Kubernetes over 4 AWS AZs, DynamoDB, S3, Lambda etc etc.
| tiffanyh wrote:
| IIRC, HN itself runs on modest hardware as well (just 4-cores,
| also FreeBSD).
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28479595
| ritcgab wrote:
| To be fair, that is 4 dedicated cores not shared with other
| tenants.
| s4mbh4 wrote:
| > 2 package(s) x 4 core(s) x 2 hardware threads
|
| Its not 4 , but 16 'cores' 2 packages = dual cpus on the same
| motherboard.
| arjie wrote:
| Enjoyable read. I wish I'd paid more attention to the *BSDs when
| I was younger because I'm set in my Linux ways now and simply
| cannot find it in myself to try them. The ZFS plus jails support
| seems to have been the low friction way that he managed things
| here.
|
| I use podman, but I haven't ever tried ZFS on Linux, instead just
| relying on an LVM of the drives. I will remedy at least that last
| error soon since I want to set up a personal archiver and you
| can't realistically do timelines without the deduplication that
| ZFS gives.
| iamkonstantin wrote:
| > I wish I'd paid more attention to the *BSDs
|
| Same! I've been trying to reduce complexities in my stack (e.g.
| Docker) and while systemd exists, I think the concept of
| "jails" or sandboxes is quite neat. I love tools that come with
| better out-of-the-box readiness.
| DCKing wrote:
| systemd nowadays has a lot of sandboxing built in [0]! You
| can achieve jails using just systemd and no separate
| container manager.
|
| [0]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/Sandboxing
| indigodaddy wrote:
| I want to do something similar, not for fediverse or anything,
| but an easy way to get a pretty html and/or markdown version of
| any current special weather statement(s) for any zip
| code/area/city etc.
| sails wrote:
| I'm doing a similar thing with open-meteo for surf forecasts (for
| myself primarily)
|
| Only one region, but could quite easily expand. It takes the
| open-meteo ocean data and combines it with some short and long
| range weather. Then run a preprocessed refined version of that
| through an LLM to turn it from quantitative into qualitative. It
| basically does what I would do in my head.
|
| If you have any ideas, please let me know
|
| https://surfrash.xyz/
| nrhrjrjrjtntbt wrote:
| Nice. I think that site for any beach would be useful. Like how
| it is descriptions rather than a wall of data.
|
| Request for manly, nsw, australia otherwise :)
| sails wrote:
| Nice, does require some local knowledge to get it at all
| useful (if you can email me some info in what conditions work
| I can set one up for you.)
|
| Is there a high res weather model for Aus? That makes a huge
| difference as well
| nrhrjrjrjtntbt wrote:
| Thanks. I dont want to bother you as I assumed it would be
| just a case of pulling a feed but sounds like there is
| more. Plus I dont surf too often! I think they would have a
| high res weather model https://www.bom.gov.au/weather-and-
| climate/rain-radar-and-we... but not sure if it is.
| sails wrote:
| Cool thanks, yes all good, yes there is basically a combo
| of knowledge dump and assembling raw weather data to
| apply the knowledge to, I haven't done another location
| yet, but maybe wait for a few more requests :D
| fzeindl wrote:
| I once had an idea of buying the domain "freeofcharge.org", where
| people could put useful services that fit into RAM onto
| subdomains, meaning services that cost them only ~10$ per month,
| which they pay out of their own pockets.
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