October 15, 2018
A while back I’d opined on spending a couple years moving around different service providers in search of a couple objectives. The objectives, in short, were:
to be able to use the upstream distribution media for installation rather than deploying a pre-packed image. to be able to use distribution kernels to be able to use full disk encryption The rational for these things can be generally argued against based on preferences that one may have for their ecosystems, but these were the primary things I’d wanted to find in a provider for a long time.
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February 1, 2017
Choosing a hosting provider when you want the familiarity and trust of your native distribution resources is actually quite difficult. Many of the juggernaut providers offer features that require them to have control over your kernel and boot-loader. We assume for this article:
You want to use VPS as a medium because you need full backups and snapshots You want to install from distribution supplied media into your VPS You want to have block level backup (in case using FDE via LUKS/Geli) You’re somewhat familiar with VPS providers rolling their own Kernels and customizing distribution, and you’re a bit uncomfortable with it The Saga (past years) # This is long and rambly, sorry.
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