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> Oracle's always-free cloud offerings (100GB disk, 1GB RAM, 10TB bandwidth). Interested to hear what people think of this. It's Oracle; wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.
hm.. I looked into this. I do agree to not touch Oracle, but free is free, right? What's the worst case? They turn it off or are unreliable?
My preferred remote desktop tool is TeamViewer. Almost no VPS actually supports this, because TeamViewer needs a virtual graphics card (that's what I'm calling it, but I actually don't know what to call it). Linode used to provide one at 1024x768, but I think they no longer do so. Vultr however does support one, at 1280x1024. Anybody else have this preference for TeamViewer?
I'm guessing what you're getting at here though is that you want to manage the server through a desktop interface, complete with windows and menus and the like. Most people don't do that on Linux servers because most of the things you need to interact with to administrate one are only accessible through a command line interface.
That said, if you really want to manage a Linux server graphically, you might be able to make it work with something like Xvfb.
lowendbox has a lot of good options.
And if you don't mind dealing with the russian UI, try
I've been a Netcup customer for a year and a half or so, and I love them. Locations in Germany only, but for less than $10/mo (5.29EUR), you're not going to do much better than this on price to spec ratio. Performance is fantastic. I have the 8G/300G SAS rootserver for 8.99EUR (rootservers just give you dedicated cores). Note however that (similar to BuyVM), they are also extremely quick to cancel you outright if you…
They're a provider I haven't heard of before. Following your link, what does "Billing period 6 Months" mean? Elsewhere on the page it says: "Hourly based billing. Tariff can be terminated at any time."
Two related questions not answered in this article: - Where can I find good low-cost KVM with decent monthly bandwidth in Australia? Primarily want a remote fast Linux/VNC desktop (which will chew a lot of bandwidth), and want bandwidth left over to actually do things with. - There's no mention of Oracle's always-free cloud offerings (100GB disk, 1GB RAM, 10TB bandwidth). Interested to hear what people think of this.
Linode even has GPU instances, though they're extremely expensive (you'd really want to only turn it on while you're using it).
My preferred remote desktop tool is TeamViewer. Almost no VPS actually supports this, because TeamViewer needs a virtual graphics card (that's what I'm calling it, but I actually don't know what to call it). Linode used to provide one at 1024x768, but I think they no longer do so. Vultr however does support one, at 1280x1024. Anybody else have this preference for TeamViewer?
TeamViewer hasn’t had the best track record[1] when it comes to security (compared to something like OpenSSH).
[1]: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=TeamViewer
My preferred remote desktop tool is TeamViewer. Almost no VPS actually supports this, because TeamViewer needs a virtual graphics card (that's what I'm calling it, but I actually don't know what to call it). Linode used to provide one at 1024x768, but I think they no longer do so. Vultr however does support one, at 1280x1024. Anybody else have this preference for TeamViewer?
I’m not trying to be snarky, but I’m curious, what is it that you like about TeamViewer? I don’t run X on any of my servers, so plain old ssh (and mosh) work well for me. Have you considered the alternatives, perhaps tunnelling VNC/RDP over ssh? TeamViewer hasn’t had the best track record[1] when it comes to security (compared to something like OpenSSH). [1]: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=TeamViewer
I've considered the alternatives but I already remote into other platforms (Mac, Windows) so TeamViewer is already running on my desktop.
My preferred remote desktop tool is TeamViewer. Almost no VPS actually supports this, because TeamViewer needs a virtual graphics card (that's what I'm calling it, but I actually don't know what to call it). Linode used to provide one at 1024x768, but I think they no longer do so. Vultr however does support one, at 1280x1024. Anybody else have this preference for TeamViewer?
Apparently TeamViewer supports headless Linux servers: https://www.teamviewer.com/en/remote-access-headless-linux/ I'm guessing what you're getting at here though is that you want to manage the server through a desktop interface, complete with windows and menus and the like. Most people don't do that on Linux servers because most of the things you need to interact with to administrate one are only accessible through…
> Xvfb
I might, but I've tried a zillion things, and they all suck when you compare it to the ease of use that TeamViewer offers. What I also left out, is that I've already got the TeamViewer client running, because I remote into macOS and Windows.
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Cloud run looks cool, but doesn't seem to support databases ? Unless it supports linked containers? I like that it's a mix of AWS lambda scaling with more open environments... Though it's hard to read through the marketing... "Nearly instance availing from 1 to 1000"
Cloud Run user here. It does not support running a database as a Cloud Run service; you'd need to connect to a Cloud SQL instance. This is one area I really hope PaaS providers improve on in the future. The closest thing at the moment is Aurora Serverless on AWS, especially with their neat HTTP connection system. That being said, cold starts are even worse since they're now the start up time for your application in a…
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Out of curiosity, what are you using for your databases?
Not OP but I can setup DB of choice on an instance or group of instances and access directly from the Cloud Run containers. Our particular main stack is on MongoDB 3.4 so we deployed Atlas on the VPC and the containers access it just fine.