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Brilliant write up, just 1 correction, the TierHive VPS should only be $1.20 per year not $4 :)
Posted by
backtogeek on Friday March 27, 2026 @03:12PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/10697/installing-openbsd-on-a-kvm-vps-via-ipxe-vnc-console-no-template-required-128mb-ram-1gb-disk
I made this guide and posted it on the LowEndSpirit.com VPS/Hosting community forum, a guide to installing OpenBSD on any VPS with a console and ipxe support (pretty much any KVM based host should support this now) even if they dont have any BSD templates, no dhcp required, static config method included and ipxe shell commands to get started.I did this in a tint 128mb ram vps with 1 vcpu and...
Thanks I appreciate you taking the time to comment!
I wonder that too. I have been a reader for YEARS, lost access to my old account, so I am cautious about posting content here, as I know new low-post accounts are often seen as spammy, which is fair enough.
Posted by
backtogeek on Thursday March 26, 2026 @09:41AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://tierhive.com/blog/tierhive-howto/alpine-minimal-remote-desktop-on-a-128mb-vps
Built this as a guide for users of my hosting service. Everything here was run on a real instance. The Mesa/LLVM dependency is genuinely painful on a 1GB disk, and I couldn't find a way around it. WindowMaker won the window manager battle purely on dependency chain cleanliness; it pulls in no GTK, no Python, no audio stack. Happy to answer questions about any of the choices made. Screenshots at...
Posted by
backtogeek on Thursday January 08, 2026 @12:44PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://tierhive.com/
This idea has been floating in my head for about 10 years. Some of you might remember LowEndSpirit.com back before it became a forum, I started that. I've been obsessed with making tiny, cheap VPS actually useful ever since.TierHive is my attempt to make 128MB VPS great again :)It's a NAT VPS (KVM) platform with true hourly billing. Spin up a server, use it for 3 hours, delete it, pay for 3...
All the deep state stuff aside, I switched to 100% unprocessed meals for a month sometime ago after finding out I was becoming insulin resistant.
It worked I feel better and a few other things... My eye sight improved and my beard, leg and arm hair increased, noticeably.
I can't believe that article has no mention of SQLite ??
Brilliant I will be adopting a few of these, I have been on a personal quest to reduce js use recently, I feel like I spend more time debugging js than producing the end result.
Yep and I have kept it really basic and simple, I just store them in a folder in /home/$user/music and let jukebox scan and catalogue and I keep a subset on my phone, really that simple.... And you know what, it feels great, but then again, I am old enough to fondly remember just listening to a Walkman and being blown away.
This sort of thing gives me a nice hit of nostalgia.
I am pleased things like this continue to exist on the tinterweb.
License arguments aside, pretty cool.
Probably is, nice that people who do other things apart from learning to code all day can get their ideas out of their heads.
looks pretty cool, will add it to the never ending list of stuff to test
Give it a week, there will be a tool out of China that works just fine, the right to repair by brute force!