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Hello sir, very interesting thread
I made VPS last month with KnownHost, I run only a script that play national anthem every morning at 6AM for my family in Jakarta 😂
My mother say "why you pay money for this" but I say "is for country pride"
Thank you very much
Simple is better
I run a single text file
It contains one number: days since I last needed more than 512MB ram
Currently at 847
Hahaha this thread is very fun!! 😅
I have make a bot since 2 years on my $10/yr InterServer box, it send me a email every time my favorite baguette bakery is open because I always forget the sunday schedule
It is possible to do that? Yes lol. Is it necessary? No
My girlfriend say I am "special" but I think she mean "genius"
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The most ridiculous thing I've run is actually Windows Server 2022 on a 512MB VPS. It was an experiment in minimalism and it technically functioned as a file share for six months. The Linux crowd here will cringe, but with proper tuning it used less RAM than some of the Electron apps I see people defending. I eventually migrated to a proper box, but it taught me a lot about what Windows can endure when you're patient. No emojis needed. The Event Viewer logs were entertainment enough.
SNAPPED UP a €4/mo 1GB from OVHcloud in 2024
Ran a script that did NOTHING but check if the deal was still available and post "STILL IN STOCK" to a telegram channel
The telegram channel had 3 people. Me, my alt, and a guy who left in 2025
STILL RUNNING IT THOUGH
Price history:
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IMO the "ridiculous" part isn't what you run, it's the joy you get from it
YMMV but my most pointless was a VPS that just counted how many times my other VPSes had rebooted. Took me three months to realize I could just check uptime locally.
Take it with a grain of salt, but sometimes the dumb projects teach you the most. I learned cron, jq, and that I have a problem in one weekend.
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Hello sir, very intewesting thwead sir
My goldfish name is Pwesident, he very handsome fish, stweam cost me $8/month, mother watch evewy day, say "why you pay for fish TV" but she smile very much
Regarding the ongoing discussion, I would like to remind all users that our acceptable use policy permits personal projects provided they do not exceed bandwidth allocations or generate abuse complaints.
Several mentions of automated ordering scripts and streaming endpoints have been noted. Please review Section 4.2 (Automated Interactions with Third-Party Services) and Section 7.1 (Continuous Bandwidth Utilization) at your convenience.
That said, the creativity on display here is genuinely impressive. Carry on.
— Admin
Speaking of policy-adjacent deployments, I once maintained a VPS whose sole purpose was originating a full BGP feed to a /24 I leased via an IRR-registered route object. The "ridiculous" element: the upstream was a $5/month KVM slice in a Hostinger facility, and I was announcing 200+ peers through a GRE tunnel back to my basement lab.
The RPKI ROA validated, somehow. The community strings were cleaner than my production transit at work. Latency was atrocious—180ms to the nearest IXP—but the looking glass drew more curiosity pings than my actual production prefixes that quarter.
No production traffic. Just a perfectly valid, perfectly useless BGP session running for eleven months until the provider's IRR filter finally caught the inconsistency in my as-set.
Uy, super laki ng tunnel na yan, diba?
Ako, nag-install ako ng nginx sa HostHatch 512MB, tapos wala naman website. Super mabagal pa. Ginawa ko lang: reverse proxy sa ibang reverse proxy. Parang joke lang.
Tapos yung logs, sobrang dami, puro 502. Pero saya ako, diba?
Three layer deep, wala namang destination.
My lola ask "anong ginagawa mo" sabi ko "practice lang" pero totoo wala talagang point
