Topic: SporeStack: Launch VPS servers with Bitcoin. Anonymous, API driven (Read 19801 times)

I don't understand your question. Could you rephrase it?

No longer for sale! More details here: https://sporestack.com/news/#2020-07-24

There's been some steady improvements on SporeStack lately. I've caught up on some tech debt, lots more to go.

Working towards offering more Torified flavors as well.

I love my customers a lot. I'm grateful to have any at all. It really isn't enough to sustain me, though.

Sometimes I wonder if SporeStack is worth anything, if someone would want to buy it. It's something always in the back of my head. Can't really unplug for more than 24 hours. Try to reply to customers as soon as possible.

I've moved back in with my parents. Just not making enough on SporeStack to have my own place. Been looking for work and having basically no luck.

One of the few things I don't like about SporeStack is that it isn't really enabling people to be more independent. I guess I like self-hosting more and more. I'd rather see people be able to host servers themselves, maybe out of their own homes. Of course I know the limitations there. It's not straightforward offering reliable services.

I've been slowly trying to pull off of 3rd party services. Hosting my own code, shifting slowly off Github. Having all the source code I need on hand.

I have a lot of ideas for SporeStack. Want to have a Javascript-free launcher. Switch it over to being based on FreeBSD. Add back in a Vultr driver.

Just what I really want to do is buy some land up here in Idaho and learn how to live off it. Learn how to make my own clothes, grow my own food, hunt my meat. Once (and if) I can provide for my own existence, then seeing what I actually want to do from there. I'd rather write letters to people than emails, although my handwriting is really terrible.

I've been keeping SporeStack going for over 3 years. It's the first of its kind and thankfully inspired some similar services.

I get tired sometimes. I question how things are going around me. I am finding out my skills are becoming more and more irrelevant in the workforce. Starting to think if I can't get some land, I might have to try being a mechanic. At least I'd be working with my hands.

If I ever were to sell SporeStack, which I'd be really surprised if I did any time soon, I'd really want it to be to someone likeminded and who I could trust. It is pretty special to me and I want my users to be taken care of really well. I hope I'm not losing too much trust with this post. It might be a pipe dream, just might be nice to get out of this line of work for a while. Especially when I can't live on it as it is.

I wake up and get on my laptop. I double check graphs before I go to bed. I find technology fascinating, but I feel more slave to it than master.

It'd be nice to feel at peace without some constant rush of dopamine all the time.

I hope you all are doing well. Thank you for reading.

Few small updates.

Added RancherOS, CentOS 8, updated Fedora to 31, and ZFS images for FreeBSD.

https://sporestack.com/

Price for torified servers has dropped from $17.92 / 28 days ~ to $7.00 / 28 days ~. Also, Digital Ocean servers will shut down at expiry and only get deleted 24 hours after expiry. This helps signal if you haven't paid for a server, in case you might want to keep it going.

Also some updates to the web launcher.

Merry Christmas!

One more update. Now you can enable the settlement tokens from the website. You only have to email me if you want one for free (for affiliate).

I'd like to announce affiliates on SporeStack. Bit late to the game, but this system is a bit different than most.

If you are looking to make money configuring servers for people, this could be an option for you. As well as the traditional link based referrals.

You can now query your balance and top up settlement tokens here.

Or here on the Tor Hidden Service: http://spore64i5sofqlfz5gq2ju4msgzojjwifls7rok2cti624zyq3fcelad.onion/settlement_tokens/

I think he wants to know whether its possible to use your servers under tor network.

But you've already answered that question on the first page.

Is it suitable for opening a tor-network on this?

Lots of changes to the web launcher. Would appreciate any feedback you may have.

Settlement tokens are back. If you want to prepay and have a token that lets you build/topup servers from a balance, just let me know. This way you don't have to make a transaction per server if you don't want to.

This is the codebase if you are curious.

Added Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 support to Tor Hidden Hosting.

Wanted to let you all know that Bitcoin Cash support is broken at the moment.

Monero support is now live! You can pay with Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin SV, or Monero.

https://sporestack.com/ - http://spore64i5sofqlfz5gq2ju4msgzojjwifls7rok2cti624zyq3fcelad.onion/

Bump! No new changes this week, I'm supposed to be on vacation .

https://sporestack.com/ - http://spore64i5sofqlfz5gq2ju4msgzojjwifls7rok2cti624zyq3fcelad.onion/

Debian 10 is now supported with Hidden Hosting.

https://sporestack.com/ - http://spore64i5sofqlfz5gq2ju4msgzojjwifls7rok2cti624zyq3fcelad.onion/

Bump.

Bump!

You can now launch clearnet servers entirely over Tor, using the Tor web launcher.

The latest sporestack-python will automatically use your local Tor SOCKS proxy (127.0.0.1:9050) if you use