I've been playing with commercial VMs the last few days. First playing
with Digital Ocean, then playing with Linode.
I like Linode better.
First, their "Debian 12" seems closer to the real Debian 12 than is
Digital Ocean's. Also, though Linode's cheapest VM ($5/month) is a
little more expensive than is Digital Ocean's ($4/month), it seems a
better deal:
- Twice the RAM: 1 GiB vs. 512 MiB.
I'm annoyed that a headless machine, not running any web browsers, needs
so much RAM, but I ran into problems with 512 MiB when just setting
things up: running emacs, installing packages… And why does systemd
think it needs to be a whole damn OS in and of itself? It is a pig. And
it is complex making, it a security risk. (Yes, I blame systemd for the
xz security breach that nearly backdoored sshd all over the internet.
No, systemd should *not* be patching other code, certainly not sshd. Grrr.)
- Two-and-a half times the disk: 25 GB vs 10 GB. I don't need much, but
more is good.
- Twice the data in/out budget. Not that I need much, but more is good.
But mostly, I want my VM to be able to send me logwatch e-mails, and
Digital Ocean proudly blocks outbound port 25! Linode, on the other
hand, posts instructions for how to run an e-mail server.
-kb, the Kent who wants to finish setting things up, and then turning
off an old VM, before the next billing happens in a couple days.
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