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Before I get a job, I'm experimenting with a free VPS - Will it work? help? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 4 weeks ago by atheqtpie@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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So I'm trying freevps.edu.pl to run a Lemmy/PieFed server. It's not working so far. My server is left on pending and no matter how I try to activate it, it doesn't work. It claims to have "instant" activation as long as you verify your account and is supposed to provide you with an IP address, but it won't.

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[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You should check out this similar question here: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/selfhosted/p/650864/stupid-question-but-are-there-free-vps-vm-instances-for-a-jobless-girl-who-wants-t

[–] atheqtpie@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 points 4 weeks ago

Thanks! That's me LOL

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn't Oracle still giving out free servers? They are known to pull the plug on those without warning, but it should be enough to play around with and set it up in a way that you can get it running again quickly if it goes down, which is very valuable knowledge.

[–] atheqtpie@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

Oracle says it's not available in my location

[–] smileyhead@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 weeks ago

Don't you have 5€/mo even? Because that what Hetzner VPS costs. Or a little spare for used Raspberry Pi 4?

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

My server is left on pending and no matter how I try to activate it, it doesn’t work.

Not to throw shade on your efforts, but this is pretty much the experience I had long time ago when I explored 'free' VPS. I do hope you get it going tho. They would send me a termination of my account for inactivity which is pretty ironic.

[–] atheqtpie@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks!!! That makes sense, it turns out they want credit card verification despite being a "no credit card" organization.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

I would not use that for job experience. I would review what local job listings are looking for in experience, and practice those things.

You can run a local server on just about anything. An old PC or laptop, a VM on your current PC, even a raspberry pi or similar SBC. Even a recent Android phone, though I would really not recommend that, as it's not the same experience.

[–] blarg_dunsen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Did you sign up with a ".edu" email address? Is your university in the list of supported countries?