Yesterday's 3AM impulse purchase (VPS) - now what do I do with it?

Got a better one yesterday with CLI Speedtest:

But anyway, I kind of don't even have a use for it. I just tried to run GUI on it because why not, and already turned it into reinstall-worthy mess. I couldn't get VNC to work, at the end just with Xvbf + startxfce4 + x11vnc.

The VNC in SolusVM is crap. Tigervnc kept being blocked by some error (Oh no, something has gone wrong!), x11vnc alone would just keep low resolution of existing display, and lightdm can't load plain xfce4, just whatever xubuntu-desktop provides by default (I don't know how to configure lightdm), firefox wouldn't run, requesting authentication (under tigervnc)...

And as usual when using VNC with XFCE, all customization is broken.

But at least the SolusVM VNC is there. Of course, ufw config - step 1: set default deny incoming, step 2: allow ssh... through SSH that I just blocked, yep.
With my mini PC that would mean whipping out the serial cable - I wish all PCs and laptops still had serial. The USB dongles usually don't handle higher baud rates and use low voltage.

And yes, the uptime, I keep it off when not in use because I don't know what I am doing.


Anyway, I paid approx. €16.60 for a year.

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CameronDev@programming.dev · 11 pts · 334d

VPN endpoint/tailscale exit node.

thagoat@lemmy.sdf.org · 8 pts · 334d (2 replies)

Link to the service you bought? Decent price, mate

user224@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 333d (1 reply)

https://racknerdtracker.com/?product=880%2F25-gb-kvm-vps-black-friday-2024

That website stores all/most of the past deals which RackNerd doesn't seem to disable, just remove from their own site.

thagoat@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 332d

Beautiful. Thank you

sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 327d

Run through the Linux upskill challenge! This is a perfect setup.

And operate a veilid node.