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What I Learned I recently launched Galaxy Cloud Solutions LLC, a VPS hosting company running entirely out of my home lab in Valley City, North Dakota. Here's what I built and how. When a customer orders a VM, everything happens automatically: The whole process takes about 3-5 minutes from payment to SSH access. Building this taught me a ton about Linux networking, KVM virtualization, automated provisioning, and running a real business. It's been an incredible learning experience. Use code LAUNCH2026 for 50% off your first month! Check it out at galaxycloudsolutions.com Happy to answer any questions about the technical setup! Templates let you quickly answer FAQs or store snippets for re-use. as well , this person and/or - Dell PowerEdge R630 (dual Xeon E5-2660 v3, 40 threads, 62GB RAM)

- Dual ISP setup with automatic failover- Cloudflare for DDoS protection and DNS - Proxmox VE — KVM virtualization hypervisor- FOSSBilling — client management and billing- Nginx — reverse proxy and SSH stream tunneling- Python — custom auto-provisioning script- Cloudflare — DDoS protection, DNS, DDNS updates- Uptime Kuma — 24/7 monitoring - FOSSBilling receives PayPal payment- Triggers my Python provisioning script- Script clones a Proxmox template- Configures resources (CPU, RAM, disk)- Starts the VM and waits for IP via guest agent- Creates a Cloudflare DNS record- Sets up Nginx SSH stream proxy- Sets customer password via guest agent- Sends welcome email with SSH credentials - Ubuntu 24.04 LTS- Rocky Linux 9- AlmaLinux 9