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Re: Exe.dev

#111
In which country are the VMs hosted? Do you have a warrant canary? Where's the AUP and how much peeking into customer VMs and storage do you do to enforce it?

Re: Exe.dev

#112

The individual plan says: — $20/month — 25 VMs — 2 CPUs — 8GB RAM — 25GB disk — 100GB bandwidth Is this 2 CPUs/8GB RAM per VM (in other words, 50 CPUs/200GB RAM)? If so, this is an unbelievable bargain (too good to be true?); other cloud providers charge hundreds of dollars per month for an equivalent VM. If, OTOH, it's 2 CPUs/8GB total, Hetzner offers an equivalent VM for about $5/month (with much more disk and band…

It's not actually a VM - it's a container, and they are fundamentally different. This feels like false advertising.

Re: Exe.dev

#113
post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just tried this out in Firefox on macOS and there are no issues, so this might have something to do with our LetsEncrypt wildcard cert and the CA roots installed on Android. Could you tell me what version of Android you are using?

Moto g stylus 2025 - Android 15 - metro by T-Mobile stock os Firefox nightly 148.01a I'll check for updates Edit: still broken 148.0a1 (Build #2016134322), 757b8230f44e4152aeb7b9031ff95219471ab993 GV: 148.0a1-20251226204324 AS: 148.20251224050247 OS: Android 15 Edit: also same on OnePlus Nord N30 147.0b7 (Build #2016133535), 455e50920c4926534376b719df4cf1ed714bc61d GV: 147.0-20251222164020 AS: 147.0 OS: Android 14

Works fine to me too. Looks like you're the only person that reports that. Are you sure this is not something on your end?

What TLS error do you get? Untrusted CA?

Re: Exe.dev

#114
post #106

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"ssh exe.dev" is exactly the Linux command you would use to connect there via ssh. And it's stylized like command prompt.

Except it doesn't trigger the keyboard on my phone and I can't interact with it.

It's not interactive. It's just an extremely brief brochure for the actual service, which is available via SSH. All the useful copy is under the About link at the bottom, which is so light as to fail WCAG contrast standards.

Re: Exe.dev

#115

Awesome project which I first thought might have something to do with microsft .exe format but not that big of a deal and I find this project really cool and I had thought about similar project like these so kudos that you built something like this! I mean it and I wish the best of luck for the project That being said, I tried to look at it for asap golang project deployments and I am the creator of https://spocklet-…

[exe.dev co-founder here] As of the past few minutes, some of our VMs are having intermittent network access issues. Working on it now.

UPDATE: this is fixed now.

Re: Exe.dev

#116

This is awesome. Would love to see a slimmer tier closer to a DO droplet or Hetzner instance that's ~$5-8 / month.

[exe.dev co-founder here] Thank you! Not to give too many secrets away, but my hope is to follow a business model I have been part of before, and make it as cheap as possible for individuals so they encourage their employers to buy it for work. So I would very much love to get cheaper. The two constraints are that, one, when small underlying resources are expensive (we hope to fix that soon by not being small!), and…

With Shelly (and assuming a decent number of tokens) $20 is very good I think. But not everyone wants an AI.

Re: Exe.dev

#117
post #99

How do you proxy the SSH connections? I thought you could not do hostname-based proxying with the SSH protocol

Would be interested in this too, I did some work in the past to make it work via Envoy proxy using HTTP CONNECT but that requires plugging in proxytunnel[0] or nc on client side.

  > $ nslookup abc.exe.xyz  
  > abc.exe.xyz canonical name = s001.exe.xyz.  
  > $ telnet s001.exe.xyz 22  
  > Trying 100.20.12.135...  
  > Connected to s001.exe.xyz.  
  > Escape character is '^]'.  
  > SSH-2.0-SSHPiper
Looks like it uses sshpiper[1]?

[0] https://github.com/proxytunnel/proxytunnel

[1] https://github.com/tg123/sshpiper

Re: Exe.dev

#120
I'm not a fan of making ssh the primary access mechanism for a service. Just make a simple Web panel for managing VMs, and actually explain on the service on the Web page.
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