A Simple Site, offering Slow Servers hosted on Secondhand Systems, with Satisfactory Service.
Probably not. Slow is relative. Compared to the latest Ryzen processors, it's slow. But if you want to host a basic website, have a Jabber server, DNS, etc, it's probably fast enough for most. Our hardware is absolutely bleeding edge compared to something from the year 2,000.
It's just hard to justify buying new hardware when there's so much adequate hardware already made. It's not like circuitboards biodegrade -- there's a significant environmental cost for performance benefits hard to justify for most. One could argue that the Internet is unnecessary, and it probably is. But some of us remember it being used primarily for human communication and the sharing of knowledge, and for the Internet's most useful functions, our servers are quite adequate.
Our servers are also slower because they are chosen and designed to use less power. This is cheaper for us, cheaper for you, and better for the environment.
Virtualized Private Servers (VPS) hosted on OpenBSD with VMM. The VPSs have IPv6 connectivity only. Inbound IPv4 is available through our own SNIProxy server, so the legacy IPv4 Internet can still reach many services on your server(s).
All plans have only one vCPU, which is shared. /64 IPv6 allocations are included.
You likely won't notice much performance gain in the larger sizes, unless your needs are memory bound. Their main use is if you need more disk space. Unfortunately, VMM is unable to allocate more than one vCPU, so even if you rent the whole host, you'll have about 1/6th-1/8th of the host's CPU potential.
How much bandwidth? This is a bit up in the air. Max use of perhaps 1TiB per month, per GiB of memory is probably reasonable.
These prices are when paid yearly. Month-to-month prices are 10% higher. We prefer yearly, especially on smaller servers.
We use and recommend OpenBSD, but understand that Debian is preferable for many. We may add more options in the future.
Spokane, Washington, USA
We accept Monero, Bitcoin, and Bitcoin Cash. Cash or silver in mail to our PO box is also possible.
You can currently order SlowServers three different ways. Please first read our Service Level Agreement and Acceptable Usage Policy, whichever way you choose!
For example:
Hi SlowServers,
I would like to purchase one "$4.50/month: 768MiB of memory, 24GiB of disk" server from you.
My SSH Public key is: ssh-ed25519 AAAAC4NzaC1l...
I would like to install OpenBSD 7.8 myself.
You may pick the hostname and my username to access my VPS' host with.
I will pay for one year with Monero.
Thank you,
Pseudononymous Philosopher
We will respond with an invoice. After payment, we will send you another email with details.
For the forseeable future, SporeStack users may use their token balance to pay for SlowServers. Just send a token message!
ssh [email protected]
No password needed, no SSH key. You do have to have IPv6, however.
Or, via Tor.
You'll probably need something like this in your ~/.ssh/config:
Host *.onion ProxyCommand nc -x localhost:9050 %h %p
Now you can run:
ssh signup@slowsvr7rgnkzuoma5byw34n2mkkg6v7g5q6qxqaihh7zikp5wn26fid.onion
Just follow the prompts!
If you really want to maximize the "slow" experience, we can correspond via mail.
PO Box 163, Saint Maries, Idaho 83861 USA
Note that the PO box is likely to only get checked about once a month unless it gets used often.
Cash in mail or silver payments are possible. Realistically, it's probably best to send an email before doing this, but maybe you're feeling brave?
And please don't send silver from abroad, then ask for a refund of that silver, back to your international address!