Eight months ago, Host1Free cleaned up a large number of idle users by shutting down their VPSes . Now, H1F has introduced another tough measure: requiring users to enter a verification code monthly to renew their service, or risk VPS deletion. Two weeks after each renewal, you'll receive an email for the next month's renewal. You must complete the renewal within two weeks of receiving the email, otherwise your VPS will be suspended. If you fail to renew within an additional week, your data will be permanently deleted. Additionally, this notification email was once again found in the spam folder......
Host1Free Recently Upgraded Network Infrastructure, Changing VPS IP
Dear Host1Free User Lan Tian, We would like to announce that due to changes in our network infrastructure we will be changing current IP address of your free VPS server 5.175.206.68 to the new one 5.175.156.249. In order to allow you to prepare for this event we added IP address 5.175.206.68 as main IP address and old 5.175.156.249 IP left as additional to your free VPS server. Next Wednesday (2013-06-13) old IP address will be removed. Please make sure to update your servers settings, DNS settings and etc. accordingly to avoid any inconience after old IP(5.175.156.249) address removal at Wednesday." Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience. Regards, Host1Free adminsitrators team In short, the VPS IP address has been changed to 5.175.206.68, while the original 5.175.156....
Host1Free VPS Memory Usage Optimization
PS: After publishing the article for the first time, I realized I forgot to configure the connection between nginx and php5-fpm. When I tried to connect to my VPS to check the settings, I opened the terminal, pressed the up arrow and Enter, only to discover my last command was "exit"... PS2: Folks using port 22 on VPS should be cautious – you might get disconnected mid-command. Switch to another port like 2222. (So 2-ish) PS3: Today I set up a Debian 6 test environment on VirtualBox and discovered Lighttpd has plugin functionality... Revised accordingly. For a VPS, resources like CPU and disk space are usually sufficient for running a personal blog like mine. The real headache is insufficient memory....
Host1Free Checks If All Users Are Using Their VPS
Host1Free's free VPS campaign has been running for quite some time. They've deployed over 30 servers, allocating a total of 30,000 VPS instances (severe overselling... but it's free, so we have to bear with it). This attracted a massive number of user registrations, and most importantly, the official service doesn't discriminate against users from China. However, Chinese users have a characteristic: after getting the VPS, they play around with it until they get bored, then abandon it. Or if they obtain other VPS services (like EC2 or VPS.me, which was available months ago), they stop using it entirely. But Host1Free is quite diligent overall – whenever a server goes down, they restart all VPS instances. Consequently, those unused VPSes, each with 128MB RAM + 640MB Swap, waste resources....
Host1Free VPS Application Successful
I saw the news about Host1Free VPS online long ago and wanted to apply. However, when I tried from my home computer, it showed "Only registrations from unique IPs allowed." Then I used Go^_^Agent, submitted successfully, but got rejected. After repeated attempts, I wasted Gmail + Hotmail 2 + QQ 2 accounts... Later I told imbushuo about it. He applied directly from the school computer lab and succeeded. Just like that... Eventually I realized it was a dynamic IP issue—applications from dynamic IPs would fail. This time I applied from my dad's office and succeeded. 128MB RAM, 10GB hard drive—only good for tinkering. Probably can't even handle WordPress. IP: 94.249.250....