URL: Inleed

A friend of mine recommended Inleed as a VPS provider. He was very happy with them and since they have a datacenter right next doors and very competitive pricing I decided to give them a chance.

I however wanted to run an OS they didn’t provide out of the box, so I contacted support@inleed.se and asked if I could use an alternative OS. I immediately got an answer that I could just send them a link to an installation ISO and that they would mount it for me.

Sent the link and shortly after it was mounted and good to go.

Installation

To start the installation I went to my customer page at Inleed, clicked services (1) and then manage (2).

Connected via VNC (3).

Looking good.

Almost…

So, I was first met with a kernel panic and therefor sent another mail to Inleed asking for help.

Lo and behold, I got a response two minutes later where they resolved my issue (CPU on the server) and asked me to try again.

Good to go:

Post installation

After the installation I sent another mail saying I was done and that they could umount the image.

Got a reply within no time. At 22:50 a Wednesday evening. Now that’s impressive to say the least!

Base configuration

During the installation I noticed I got no DHCP lease. I figured I’d fix that later but I never got that to work.

So another contact with support where I was told to set the ip manually and was provided with the needed information for that. So I did:

nmcli con modify enp1s0 ipv4.method manual ipv4.address x.x.x.x/22 ipv4.gateway x.x.x.x

And traffic started flowing. Nice.

I still had no DNS configured though so I added a public one:

nmcli con modify enp1s0 ipv4.dns 1.1.1.1, 1.0.0.1

All well. My OS of choice, connectivity to the rest of the world and ready to set up my server for real. Sweet.

Conclusion

There isn’t a hefty amount of guides or FAQ’s for odd requests like mine. Well, none actually that I could find. And to be honest the documentation on the site is a bit sparse overall.

That is however well compensated by a support in a league I’ve never experienced before. Late evenings when only nerds roam, they answered me quicker then I could read the summary of any guide. And provided me with relevant information. Bravo!

First impression is really good. The question is if it’s good enough to compete with my current provider, Linode. They have excellent guides, good support and a top-notch web-ui for managing your domains, VMs etc. Backups are also a lot cheaper there at least for small players like me.

Time will tell.. but I’m definitely impressed by Inleed so far.

A fresh install of the Fedora 38 KDE spin left me without sound via my built-in docking station in my monitor.

How-to

Run below command to see the available sinks. Then scroll through the output until you find something relevant.

pactl list sinks |less

In my case I found a port with the name of my monitor under the “Ports” section on one of my audio devices. From the last line there I got the needed profile name, output:hdmi-stereo.

Ports:
    hdmi-output-0: HDMI / DisplayPort (type: HDMI, priority: 5900, latency offset: 0 usec, availability group: Legacy 4, available)
    Properties:
    port.type = "hdmi"
    port.availability-group = "Legacy 4"
    device.icon_name = "video-display"
    card.profile.port = "5"
    device.product.name = "LEN T32h-20"
    Part of profile(s): output:hdmi-stereo, output:hdmi-stereo+input:analog-stereo

Now scroll back up and find the name of that sink.

Sink #530
    State: RUNNING
    Name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.hdmi-stereo

Great! All that remains is to make that profile the default for that specific card. Do that by issuing the following command:

pactl set-card-profile alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1f.3 output:hdmi-stereo