FOSS geek, privacy advocate, digital archivist, mental illness advocate, gamer

VPS and cloud servers

netcup.de: tornode

Component Description
Machine VPS 1000 G11 iv 12M MNZ
CPU AMD EPYC-Genoa (4-core) @ 2.25 GHz
RAM 8 GB
HDD 256 GB SSD
Networking 2.5 GB/s uplink
Monthly traffic 2 TB per 24 hours, otherwise 200 MB/s
OS FreeBSD
Price €5.75 = $6.65 per month

Notes

This machine is my Tor node. The contract runs out on 2026-03-26, so until then it will be a middle relay for the Tor network.

OpenBSD Amsterdam: hyperreal

Component Description
Machine Dell PowerEdge R620 (server17.openbsd.amsterdam)
CPU Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2 @ 2.60 GHz
RAM 1 GB
HDD 50 GB HDD
Networking Unknown
OS OpenBSD
Price €69 = $80.34 per year (~$6.70 per month)

This machine hosts my website, blog, and various files. I like the OpenBSD way of having httpd web server chroots under /var/www/htdocs. I also like that OpenBSD Amsterdam donates €10 ($11.64) per virtual machine and €15 ($17.64) per virtual machine for every renewal to the OpenBSD Foundation.

Hetzner: moonshadow

Component Description
Machine CPX11
CPU AMD EPYC-Rome (2) @ 2.445 GHz
RAM 2 GB
HDD 40 GB SSD
Networking 1 TB
OS Ubuntu 24.04
Price $4.99 + $1 for backups = $5.99 per month

This machines hosts my Bluesky PDS (personal data server), a tangled.sh knot server, and other web stuff.