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Re: Exe.dev

#121

Dang, everything about this feels really well considered. Semi-throwaway, nearly bare-metal machines that I can put on the internet with basically 0 config? I'll take

[exe.dev co-founder] Or don't throw them away! The disk persists. And thank you!

Sorry if I missed this in the docs, but how robust is the persistence? ie is it the disk that comes with a standard AWS VM? or is it a share backed by e.g. Ceph with multiple redundant copies?

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#122
post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I almost immediately surmised it's some sort of on the fly generated vm you can access via a ssh jumpserver How? It just says `ssh exe.dev`. Unless you are clairvoyant.

You are not the target audience if "how" was not apparent to you

I became target audience after I had a cup of coffee...

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#123

So I tried this the other day after Filippo Valsorda, another Go person, posted about it. My reaction was 'whoa, this really makes it easier to start a quick project', and it took a minute to figure out why I felt that way when, I mean, I have a laptop and could spin up cloud stuff--arguably I already had what I needed. I think it's the combination of 1) really quick to get going, 2) isolated and disposable environme…

> persistent and public

I don't think that it's actually public? From one of their explainers, no public IP is assigned, so you'll need to ar least have to use an additional service like Cloudflare Tunnel to use it for hosting anything.

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#124
Seems like a great tool but login not working for me, am I doing something wrong?

``` ssh exe.dev Please complete registration by running: ssh exe.dev Connection to exe.dev closed. ```

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#126
I really like the experience, after being a stuck I just tried to ssh from my termux on phone and it really worked! Absolutely awesome

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#127
Super cool. I can't justify investing time in it at the planned pricing but I'll keep an eye on it if they can hack together a more competitive VPS option.

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#128

So I tried this the other day after Filippo Valsorda, another Go person, posted about it. My reaction was 'whoa, this really makes it easier to start a quick project', and it took a minute to figure out why I felt that way when, I mean, I have a laptop and could spin up cloud stuff--arguably I already had what I needed. I think it's the combination of 1) really quick to get going, 2) isolated and disposable environme…

> persistent and public I don't think that it's actually public? From one of their explainers, no public IP is assigned, so you'll need to ar least have to use an additional service like Cloudflare Tunnel to use it for hosting anything.

[exe.dev co-founder here] You can make it public! Our TLS proxy supports it, and supports CNAME rules (plus a top-level trick) to let you put a domain name on it. To make the HTTP server on port 8000 of your VM public run:

    ssh exe.dev share set-public 

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#129
post #77
post #64

That must be worst website ever made. Zero information available on mobile. I thought it is some kind of portfolio site that does not work on mobile.

I wouldn’t go that far but some link to pricing and documentation would be useful. I have absolutely no idea what the offering is here without those pieces of info.

Their pricing page says that it's currently a free trial.

https://exe.dev/docs/pricing

Re: Exe.dev

#130
post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I almost immediately surmised it's some sort of on the fly generated vm you can access via a ssh jumpserver How? It just says `ssh exe.dev`. Unless you are clairvoyant.

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

The question wasn't "how to ssh into a server", it was "how did you figure out what it it from looking at the website"
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