Disposable Root Servers: https://www.thc.org/segfault/

Segfault offers free unlimited Root Servers. A new server (inside a Virtual Machine) is created for every SSH connection.

    - Dedicated Root Server for every user.
    - Pre-installed tools on Kali-Linux.
    - Outgoing traffic is routed through NordVPN/CryptoStorm/Mullvad.
    - Reverse TCP/UDP port on a public IP.
    - Transparent TOR to connect to .onion addresses.
    - Log in via .onion, .gsocket or direct ssh (port 22 or 443).
    - Encrypted DNS traffic (DNS over HTTPS).
    - Pre-configured .onion web server. Just put your files in /onion.
    - Encrypted storage in /sec and /home with your password.
    - Encrypted storage is only accessible while you are logged in. Keys are wiped on log out.
    - Only the user can decrypt the data. We do not have the key.
    - No Logs.

    - https://tilde.town/
    - https://tilde.club/
    - https://tilde.fun/
    - https://ctrl-c.club/
    - https://tilde.green/
    - https://tilde.guru/

    - https://blinkenshell.org/
    - https://freeshell.de/
    - https://sdf.org/

This is fascinating idea. I created an idea like this on top of firecracker and custom golang ssh client to build something like this for my own personal use case (the abstraction part of pricing and how to connect it seemed the more difficult part for me atleast)

What stack does this use underneath?

Good luck with launch, this idea is similar to railway in terms of pricing model. I discussed about it a few comments back and I think its an interesting idea and we are seeing alternatives within such pricing model

Also are you using some cloud provider itself or building it yourself, I'd be interested in so many details to discover

Have a nice day and looking forward to ya response! Good luck with your project!

As others pointed out, this isn't a very strong offer, but I'm wondering, if it would be competitive (price/performance wise), does anyone have a use-case for this? I mean, I can name quite a few if it would offer me some hardware that my laptop I'm using to access it just doesn't have, like some A100-level GPUs and stuff, then it would be fantastic: login, do your job, forget about it until the next time you need it. But for anything else it feels like I'd just prefer something more… traditional? Like, DigitalOcean droplet, AWS instance, Linode VPS, you get the idea. At least a managed Docker container. Even if it's technically more expensive and less performant, we are talking like $5/mo, and you can pretty much always easily scale-up or buy additional storage volume, all these things. And it's all yours, for pretty much all practical intents and purposes.

Does anyone have a legit use-case when it would be actually nicer to use this on-demand type of service? (Once more, unless we are talking some serious on-demand hardware.)

$36/mo for 2/4/50 VPS without public IP... Ok, I get the idea that the service is for non-regular use, but I think even $0.005 per hour ($3.6/mo) of suspended state is too expensive. The same config in Hetzner is just $4.09/mo for 24/7 working VPS with public IPv4 address

There's been so many of these lately.

I really need to share a blog post on doing this exact thing with a VPS, 2 commands to install and setup lxd.

And then client side bash function to just make and connect via tmux and delete when you're done.

Self hosting these services is too easy to do and you can have more control of your data and better specs.

This looks quite similar to exe.dev which was on here a while ago - anyone know how it compares?

This is a very cool idea and I like the simplicity of the business model! SSH has a ton of great features and its ergonomics are excellent for terminal enthusiasts. Most of us want to ssh into our cloud compute anyway. As a founder of an ssh platform (https://pico.sh) I just wanted to say welcome and good luck!

Also If you ever want to chat about ssh feel free to reach out!

I've been trying to come up with a hypothetical use case for this. I can't use this as a server without keeping an active session right? I wonder if you could get around this by sshing into itself from inside the primary session. Is that an edge case you've considered?

I have issue with that balance cut off at $5. How one spends the entire balance then?

Love this idea! Started building a version of it a while ago, but gave up because my resume time was too slow

My job has their own DCs, but inexplicably hosts devboxes in EC2 - an autosuspend feature for cost savings sounds awesome.

Feature request: let me give you a Dropbox folder to persist/load my suspended vms from/to, that way i dont get charged for storage when not using it, and i can walk away whenever i want

I would use this with expensive GPU instances so I don't forget them running. Not so useful for cheap instances.

Unrelated in many ways, but I have the reverse problem:

When I suspend my Linux machine, my ssh connections are lost.

Anyone know of a good solution for this?

PS: Yes, I know about tmux/screen but I'd like a solution that keeps the connection, because I often forget to start a screen session. Also, I'd like my X11 applications to keep working.

Cool idea, but where's the "sign up" button?

Trying to use any of the commands in the home page, I just see "hugo@shellbox.dev: Permission denied (publickey).". Clearly I have to register first, but there's no clue as to how.

But why? Genuinely want to know what one might use this for. I can imagine it would be cool for a remote dev environment but the selling point would have to be that it’s far cheaper than the alternative.

I could imagine using this to access a beefier machine besides my main work computer. But indeed paying for stopped VM is difficult to sell. There was a suggestion to propose pre installed tools in different images which I find a good idea. Otherwise the workflow all by ssh is cool!

I made something similar last week using rust. It uses docker container with bunch of tool pre loaded. if anyone interested source code https://github.com/TheYkk/agentman

What a brilliant billing and account interaction interface. I legitimately wanted to build something like this for a transactional SMS provider where it would all be provisioned, managed, configured on the CLI. Do you have any tips on how you built this out so elegantly?

> Note: The -O flag is required for OpenSSH 9.0+ to use legacy SCP protocol.

Why isn't SFTP supported?

Looks cool. You probably need a fyi or faq indicating that how the account system works.

Cool idea if you have a more specific niche requirement than it would initially appear, but genuinely nice to know this is available if such a use-case happens to cross my path.

$0.005/hr while stopped is $43.8/year. That's... that's not bad! Worthwhile as a backup place to do work on open source, host an irssi.

What are the legalities of having a cash balance, withdrawable? (So not "credits" or something)

Do you need a banking license, or partner with someone who has?

ALS no mention of GB’s of bandwidth provided.

I'm curious: what's the use case? Usually when I need a server I need it to stay on and have a public IP.

Not sure about the security sandbox, but given that paddle.com (your payment provider) takes 5% cut you could consider accepting lightning (bitcoin layer2) payments. QR code generation for lightning invoice is instantaneous just as payment, and will cost less than 0.1% fee (payer pays fee anyway). But the security sandbox should be solid, else it will be used for illegal stuff.

Is it non-American all the way down?

This is incredible.

No "command line tools" to install. No absurd over-complicated web APIs.

Cool project but Hetzner can provide a cloud-vm for $5 (running)

btw I am not from Hetzner

I love the text-mode QR code.

is there a typo in the title? disconnected takes 2 n (sorry for the nitpick)

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