Re: free ARM VPS

"Dave Cottlehuber" <dch@skunkwerks.at> writes:

> 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

Hi Dave,

4 CPU cores, 24GiB RAM, and 200GiB storage is significantly more then
I'm paying NetActuate for on monthly basis :) It looks like I needed an
account yesterday. Thanks for a comparison and all of the details!
I'll try to sign up an tinker on my own first.

Regards,
Dmitry

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