Re: free ARM VPS

On Thu, 21 Mar 2024, at 06:56, Dmitry Salychev wrote:
> "Joseph Holsten" <joseph@josephholsten.com> writes:
>
>> There is a FreeBSD image in the “Marketplace”. There was a mixup last fall and 14 isn’t up yet, but some foundation folks are actively working on it. If you use the official one, it’s just a quick freebsd-update to get you there.
>>
>> If you have trouble with the service, feel free to yell at me. Juggling support tickets and ops projects for Oracle Cloud Compute is my day job. I use FreeBSD daily outside work, I want it not to suck.
>
> Is it really suitable as a replacement for a RootBSD/NetActuate VPS to run
> a mail server + some minor pieces?

Hi Dmitry,

Yes. TLDR consider them as fully fledged server CPUs because they are.
The hardest part is the signup process:

- https://people.freebsd.org/~dch/posts/2021-06-02-oci-signup.html

It's a standard arm64 CPUs from Ampere (hw.model: ARM Neoverse-N1 r3p1)
and quite capable of running anything. I run DBs (PostgreSQL, CouchDB),
DNS services & Phoenix web apps off them, all in jails ofc. The free
tier gives 4 CPU cores (no hyperthreading garbage!), 24GiB RAM, and
IIRC up to 200GiB storage. That's plenty.

Here's an OCI ampere doing `openssl speed` (single threaded)
but very non-scientific as the ampere is running 14.0-RELEASE, and
Ten64 is ofc running CURRENT DEBUG + witness.

Ampere: (14.0-RELEASE GENERIC)
type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes  16384 bytes
sha256           77675.94k   280389.41k   774386.13k  1396836.35k  1829590.81k  1871025.49k

Ten64: (15-CURRENT DEBUG)
type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes  16384 bytes
sha256           13622.39k    50566.72k   166540.20k   387515.05k   641243.92k   665962.87k

If you want to test something let me know.

A+
Dave