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Re: Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers

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Post by ComodoHacker »

Gruselbauer wrote: post #113
smnc wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also on https://dply.co/help/sshkey there's mention of "pubic" key instead of a public key.

Or it signifies the beginning of key-authenticated intercourse. Just saying...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chastity_belt

Re: Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers

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Post by OwainX »

smnc wrote: post #104
oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FYI, small typo on https://dply.co/how - "it's" should be "its".

Also on https://dply.co/help/sshkey there's mention of "pubic" key instead of a public key.

Haha.. ok that one is hilarious.. and it's been fixed (the typo that is)

Re: Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers

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Post by OwainX »

hoschicz wrote: post #128

Have you evaluated using containers for this type of workloads? You could save a fuckton of money this way.

Containers and container services are great but sometimes you need a full server and doing a PaaS with containers has it's own challenges to ensure isolation, have network setup work easily and other factors. I use containers for some of my own stuff but other things are just better with a full VM.

Re: Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers

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Post by OwainX »

peatmoss wrote: post #86
throwaway123dse wrote: post #84

Do you support freeBSD?

The landing page suggests so, but the option to start a server with FBSD seems to be missing.

The "How it works" page has been updated to remove this reference until we include the FreeBSD image.

Re: Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers

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Post by darkstar999 »

nik736 wrote: post #75

I am not really sure how this works exactly but since they are receiving my email and ssh keys from GitHub, can't they simply use it for malicious purpose?

The SSH key that github has is considered public. The public key can't be used maliciously. The private key is on your machine. The two keys have to be used together to make anything happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSIDS_lvRv4

Re: Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers

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Post by diwu1989 »

OwainX wrote: post #2

This is a project I've been working on for a while. Dply allows you to quickly create a temporary cloud server (1CPU/512MB RAM/20GB SSD) for free. You can have one free server running at any time. Log in with your Github account and it will allow you to create your server using your Github ssh-key. Servers are free for 2 hours and expire after that time (unless you choose to add more time via credit card or bitcoin).…

something that would be awesome is if there was a command line tool to spin one up & it'd have a ticking timer to let me know how much time is left.

Re: Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers

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Post by reledi »

netrap wrote: post #17
OwainX wrote: post #2

This is a project I've been working on for a while. Dply allows you to quickly create a temporary cloud server (1CPU/512MB RAM/20GB SSD) for free. You can have one free server running at any time. Log in with your Github account and it will allow you to create your server using your Github ssh-key. Servers are free for 2 hours and expire after that time (unless you choose to add more time via credit card or bitcoin).…

The server name field might be better suited to be a white box like the rest of the options after you click New Server. Nice idea. Might want to have some kind of vetting of accounts if it gets bigger.

Agreed, I completely missed the server name field. Scanned over it thinking it was a horizontal line with a label below and didn't bother to read it.
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