I'll start: I'm paying $3/month to host a Minecraft server for exactly 2 players. Myself and my alt account. The server averages 0.8 players online.
Popcorn time 🍿 Who's worse than me?
grabs popcorn, checks /r/drama
Most ridiculous thing you have ever run on a VPS?
Ran a bot at 3am that would order dominos whenever it detected I was still awake via my github commit timestamps
Anyway it cost me $47 in pizza one week before I shut it down
Idk why I do this
if commits_after_midnight:
order("large pepperoni")
regret()builds at 3AM, sleeps at noon
Bruno22
Member
Bro this is very good hahaha
I make a test with my €4/mo box from Contabo, I run a wedding photo gallery for my cousin 😂 she have 200 guests, the VPS crash in 10 minutes when she send the link on whatsapp
Now she dont talk with me anymore, but is very good learning experience!
ping so high I wave back
larryjeong
Member
tallinnying said:
Ran a bot at 3am that would order dominos whenever it detected I was still awake via my github commit timestamps Anyway it cost me $47...
I ran a weather station dashboard on a €4/mo NAT VPS from OVHcloud for 3 years, collected data from a €2 sensor I got from some random aliexpress seller
Never looked at the graphs once. Just liked seeing the ram usage stay at 12%
Definately worth it im
$3/year. 128MB RAM. Pure happiness.
tomchan
Member
Fun little project: I got a 128MB NAT VPS from Hetzner for like €4/month and thought "can I run Windows 98 in a browser?"
It actually works. Used v86 emulator, served it all through nginx on the same box. 12 second boot time. Minesweeper playable at 4fps.
v86: {
memory: 64 * 1024 * 1024,
vga_memory: 2 * 1024 * 1024,
// yes this is stupid
}My wife still doesn't understand why I showed her this.
works on my bench ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My bar for ridiculous is broken
Currently my cheapest is a $6/year 256MB from RackNerd running nothing but a script that pings my other 51 boxes and emails me when one dies
The email goes to a 53rd box running mailcow
I did the math once: that's $0.023 per ping per year. 😂
My yabs on that one:
- Disk 340 MB/s
- Network 100Mbit shared
- Geekbench 6 single 412
Absolute beast.
seedbox, NAS, tape, and three offsite
sarahjey
Member
I thought vps was just for websites and stuff!!
I run a discord bot for my study group on a $4/month from Vultr but it goes offline alot when I forget to pay 😅
Thank you everyone for the ideas though!!
learning on $5 VPS and prayers
Ngl I tried to run llama 3.1 8B on a 2GB RAM VPS from Hostinger (https://www.hostinger.com). It swapped so hard the provider messaged me asking if I was mining crypto
Took 47 minutes to generate "hello world"
In my defense I was trying to see if q4_0 quantization + zram + praying would work
It did not
CUDA cores are my love language
Back in 2009 I ran a Counter-Strike 1.6 server on a Pentium 4 dedicated with 512MB RAM and it hosted 32 players smooth as butter. They don't make them like that anymore.
Now I have a GreenCloudVPS Ryzen box and I use it to emulate that same Pentium 4 experience in DOSBox. The nostalgia hits different when you're paying $15/month to pretend it's 2005.
My nephew asked why I don't just run the modern CS. I told him he wouldn't understand.
SPARCstation 20, still serving HTTP
tomchan said:
Can I run Windows 98 in a browser?
Just use qemu with kvm acceleration
Skill issue
Seriously though who runs WINDOWS on a VPS in 2026. This whole thread is a cry for help. 🐧
tallinnying said:
Ran a bot at 3am that would order dominos
Arch users dont need sleep we need BLOOD and PACMAN -Syu
oops: 0000 [#1] SMP