Re: Running OpenBSD on a VPS.

2024-07-15 Thread Christian Schulte
On 13.07.24 07:52, Crystal Kolipe wrote: On Sat, Jul 13, 2024 at 02:16:12AM +0200, Christian Schulte wrote: There is no security with those kind of setups and we all know it. I am just glad I can run OpenBSD there. But if you want to run internet-facing servers without exposing access to th

Re: Running OpenBSD on a VPS.

2024-07-15 Thread Christian Schulte
On 13.07.24 11:03, Janne Johansson wrote: address and things like that. Contabo at least offers to setup a VPS with custom iso images providing VLC console access and such. From a I think you mean a VNC console, not the road-cone media player. I could bear the mistake once, but now it looks

Re: Running OpenBSD on a VPS.

2024-07-13 Thread Janne Johansson
> address and things like that. Contabo at least offers to setup a VPS > with custom iso images providing VLC console access and such. From a I think you mean a VNC console, not the road-cone media player. I could bear the mistake once, but now it looks like a pattern, hence the nitpicking about t

Re: Running OpenBSD on a VPS.

2024-07-12 Thread Crystal Kolipe
On Sat, Jul 13, 2024 at 02:16:12AM +0200, Christian Schulte wrote: > There is no security with those kind of setups and we > all know it. I am just glad I can run OpenBSD there. But if you want to run internet-facing servers without exposing access to them to the VPS hosting provider, you can stil

Re: Running OpenBSD on a VPS.

2024-07-12 Thread Christian Schulte
On 11.07.24 12:11, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote: On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 03:10:43 +0100, Christian Schulte wrote: Running OpenBSD since then personally. Never had a chance to install it to a server, because the providers did not support it. Now they do. Not all of them. Special in case like Hetzn

Re: Running OpenBSD on a VPS.

2024-07-11 Thread Kirill A . Korinsky
On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 03:10:43 +0100, Christian Schulte wrote: > > Running OpenBSD since then personally. Never had a chance to install it > to a server, because the providers did not support it. Now they do. Not all of them. Special in case like Hetzner, online.net and similar one. But they allo

Re: Running OpenBSD on a VPS.

2024-07-10 Thread Christian Schulte
On 11.07.24 03:41, Geoff Steckel wrote: On 7/10/24 20:40, Christian Schulte wrote: Hello misc@,  I understand I will need to setup a different system from scratch and replace various things (e.g. sendmail, milter-greylist, clamav-milter, spamass-milter, http, imap, etc.) with something els

Re: Running OpenBSD on a VPS.

2024-07-10 Thread deich...@placebonol.com
I've installed OpenBSD on a variety of inexpensive Linux KVM based virtual systems. Sometimes I uploaded an OpenBSD iso, other virtual system providers needed me to provide an OpenBSD iso which was then made available from their OS drop down selection. It just depends on the VSP. diana On J

Running OpenBSD on a VPS.

2024-07-10 Thread Christian Schulte
Hello misc@, please see attached a dmesq of a Linux VPS server. I talked to the provider and got told that I can access the console usins VLC and can provide my own iso images to install whatever OS I like. Does OpenBSD support this kind of host system? I would like to avoid any kind of exper