netcup.de: tornode

• 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 15.0-RELEASE
• 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

• Machine: Dell PowerEdge R620 (server17.openbsd.amsterdam)
• CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) E5-2650 v2 @ 2.60 GHz
• RAM: 1 GB
• HDD: 50 GB HDD
• Networking: Unknown
• OS: OpenBSD 7.8
• Price: €69 = $80.34 per year (~$6.70 per month)

This machine hosts my website, blog, and Gemini capsule. I like the OpenBSD way of having httpd web server chroots under /var/www/htdocs. I do the same for my Gemini capsule under /var/gemini. The gmid Gemini server, which is available in the OpenBSD package repos, sets this up for you with a _gmid user and group. 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

• Machine: CPX11
• CPU: AMD EPYC-Rome (2) @ 2.445GHz
• 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 private Miniflux RSS instance.