@vkc I've been pretty happy with DigitalOcean and Hetzner...

@vkc I've been pretty happy with DigitalOcean and Hetzner Cloud defaults for Debian and Ubuntu images. I haven't checked out Akamai/Linode, but should give them a try sometime.

I also really like that Hetzner Cloud has ARM instances available, but they are currently available only in the EU.

I wish there were other options outside of AWS, Azure, Google Compute and Oracle that had ARM instances.

Like 1 July at 16:13 | Wall-to-wall | Open on linh.social

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Veronica Explains

@qlp Yeah VPS solutions with ARM is something I've had my eye on too. It'd be convenient for testing things which I might want to deploy later on (at least it used to in my life of sysadmining).

1 July at 16:17 | Open on linuxmom.net

Linh Pham

@vkc If you don't mind the higher latency of hopping across the pond, Hetzner Cloud ARM instances start at about $3.60/month (US is exempted from VAT, but local sales tax may be calculated) isn't too bad with 2 ARM cores, 4 GB of RAM and 40 GB of storage.

It's definitely cheaper than the big cloud providers here and less clunky to deal with compared to Oracle Cloud.

1 July at 16:31 | Open on linh.social

David Nelson

@qlp @vkc Linode is pretty good on that front. They let you install an SSH key during creation of your VPS and they offer a free firewall feature that lives outside your VM and can block ports before it’s ever been booted and configured.

So I have SSH blocked there from the start and then use Tailscale for SSH access to my servers, set to keys only. If the baddies can get through that and then pull off an exploit, well, good job. 😄

1 July at 19:54 | Open on mastodon.social

Linh Pham

@dmnelson @vkc Yep, that's how DigitalOcean and Hetzner work as well. It's nice to have multiple lines of defense, be it at the virtual network level before it hits your droplet network stack and more fine-grained control afterwards.

1 July at 20:02 | Open on linh.social

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