animeVPS
(Offered by Sadale.net, not affiliated with LBR anime)
Motivation
- To provide infrastructure for awesome projects that require a low-end VPS
- To provide a donation-based VPS service for users who aren't willing to pay for a proper VPS
- To learn how to setup a VPS service
- To utilize the unused resources of my Digital Ocean Droplet
- To partially recover the cost incurred for my Digital Ocean Droplet and my domain name
Specification
- Alpine Linux in LXC Container(requires 8MiB swappable memory+30MiB HDD)
- 120Mhz vCPU
- 128 processes
- 24MiB RAM + 112MiB SSD Swap
- 300MiB HDD(290MiB after deducting ext2 overhead)
- 48Mbps networking(May be limited by CPU bottleneck)
- 15 IPv4 open ports + 1 SSH port
- Web domain names forwardable by contacting admin(reverse proxy)
- Additional resources requestable
Pricing
- Suggested donation for non-subsidized users: >US$5/year
- Users are recommended to try it out before making donation
- Donation is highly desirable for satisfactory service
- No fixed donation cycle. Donations can be postponed
- It's OK not to donate if this service is useless to the user
- Users of interesting projects who are unable to donate are subsidized
- Donate as you wish. Please contact me if you're interested in donating to me. :)
Status
- The current design can accommodate 16 users
- To free up resources for new users, when there are ≥15 users, the service of users without an active project being hosted will be terminated after a month of grace period.
- There are currently 13 users.
Applications
- Websites
- IRC Bouncer
- Lightweight game servers
- Lightweight data mining scripts
- Pretty much any service that operates 24/7
Registration
- If you have an interesting project, feel free to contact me to request a VPS
- Active LBR ##anime users are highly likely to be offered our service
- Feel free to ask for subsidy if aren't able to make donation for whatever reason
Rules
- Comply with Digital Ocean ToS
- Illegal materials are strictly prohibited
- Hosting seedbox, open proxy, tor exit node and other risky services are prohibited
- All networking activities originate from this VPS must comply with the rules of external communities because a ban resulted from your use of this VPS may affect all other users here
- For example, do not run a bot in LBR anime without explicit permission from the ops
- Please don't do anything else with the VPS that could cause problem to the hoster or other VPS users
- This is not an exhaustive list of rules. Bans can be made under the discretion of the hoster
Reporting Abuse
- Please contact us to report abuse of this service
- Confirmed abuser will be immediately banned and listed in the Hall of Shame
Hall of Shame
- Banned abusers with its reason are listed here:
- (This list is currently empty)
Unimplemented Features
- Automate VPS creation procedure by scripting
- Develop useful scripts for users
- Web management interface for powering the VPS and emergency recovery
Digital Ocean Referral
Contact
- animevps at sadale dot net
- Sadale via LBR ##anime, or in PM
Change Log
- 2017-07-29: Modified donation terms. No more suggested donation.
- 2017-04-27: Service launched with experimental status
- 2017-11-12: Updated rules
- 2018-02-02: Upgraded RAM from 16MiB to 24MiB; Updated contact info; Updated registration info; Experimental status removed. It's now a mature service! :)
- 2018-10-24: Added affiliate link for BandwagonHost
- 2020-09-20: Updated rules, contact and referral wordings
- 2021-06-15: Moved from FN to LBR