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Texas Datacenter

$5/month $10/month $20/month
1GB RAM 2GB RAM 4GB RAM
10GB SSD 20GB SSD 40GB SSD
1 IPv4 Address 1 IPv4 Address 1 IPv4 Address
IPv6 /64 subnet IPv6 /64 subnet IPv6 /64 subnet
10Mbps sustained 20Mbps sustained 40Mbps sustained
100Mbps burst 100Mbps burst 100Mbps burst

Each additional IPv4 address costs $2/month. Additional 100GB of HDD costs $1/month.

All plans include free backups, live IRC and email support, community wikis/videos, and mentorship.

These are unmanaged plans. We can charge additional fees for a managed service.

ECDSA key fingerprint is SHA256:a0LIR/BRZkpYqMho/YvkISPEm7vkus5QfOSqAeu+tYc.

$ ssh username@us5.ircnow.org

To access the serial console:

$ vmctl console <vm-name>

To shutdown the VM:

$ vmctl stop <vm-name>

To boot the VM:

$ vmctl start <vm-name>

To pause the VM:

$ vmctl pause <vm-name>

To unpause the VM:

$ vmctl unpause <vm-name>

To escape serial console, type ~~.

Our default gateway is 38.81.163.129. Your IP address can be found by running $ dig username.us5.ircnow.org.

For OpenBSD, here is how you statically assign your IP address:

Inside /etc/hostname.vio0:

inet 38.81.163.xxx 255.255.255.0

Replace 38.81.163.xxx with your assigned IP address.

Inside /etc/mygate:

38.81.163.129

For Alpine:

To restart networking:

# service networking restart

Losing network connectivity:

For OpenBSD, put this in your crontab:

@reboot /usr/bin/tmux new -d 'while true; do /sbin/ping -i5 38.81.163.129; done' \;

For Debian:

@reboot /usr/bin/tmux new -d 'while true; do /usr/bin/ping -i5 38.81.163.129; done' \;