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Re: Exe.dev

#162
post #69

This is cool. I am currently using GitHub codespaces and I would love a version of it with nothing but a web based terminal. I don't need all the other windows they put around it. This might be it. Trying my way around it now. Not sure what is going on: me: apt install apache the shell: exe.dev repl: command not found: "apt" What is "exe.dev repl"? Am I not in a shell? me: bash the shell: exe.dev repl: command not fo…

[exe.dev co-founder here] Hi there, I am not sure exactly where you are, but your VM is ubuntu derived and definitely starts with apt and bash. Perhaps try `ssh yourvm.exe.xyz`? Thanks for trying it!

While at tailscale you built sketch.dev only to actually build this product ? Love it. Ultimate yak shave. Kind of how like Antithesis was the product inside foundationdb.

Re: Exe.dev

#164

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?

None of this actually matters. If you want to keep your data private, host it on your own hardware. Countries, company policies, etc are all essentially irrelevant

Re: Exe.dev

#165
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.

Not a mobile issue. I am on desktop and had no idea what this service was because nothing on the initial UI explained what we were looking at. I went and double-checked when people here were talking about pricing and VMs. From the home page, I figured it was some text-based game or experiment and closed the page. It looks like some people who work there are watching this thread, so to them I say: You have got to expl…

It's odd to see how people are not accustomed to plain websites anymore. You click the 'About' link in the footer, and get a direct explanation of what it is, pricing and the entire documentation.

Re: Exe.dev

#166
post #99

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

Looks like it's a combination of SSH server IP address + public key.

Each VM you create (up to 25 of them) gets a different CNAME record of the form s0NN.exe.xyz where NN ranges from 01 to 25. Each of these names, from s001.exe.xyz to s025.exe.xyz, resolves to a different IP address.

Therefore the individual VM can be distinguished this way, and the account they are associated with can be identified using the SSH public key that is used to authenticate.

Re: Exe.dev

#167
post #76

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Hyperbole much? I'm on mobile and think it's great. I wish more websites were like this. Just straight to the point instead of all the regular marketing fluff you need to decipher.

pricing information and what it does/how it works is not marketing fluff

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Re: Exe.dev

#168
Seems it's overloaded now. I like the UX though. My usual question with any hosting is how do you avoid this being abused by hackers, scammers, etc.? Right now it's easy to just create any VMs for free based on a mail account, that seems ripe for exploitation (maybe it's down now cause someone's exploiting it?)

Re: Exe.dev

#169
post #49
post #21

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The blog doesn't work on Firefox on Android for me https://blog.exe.dev/meet-exe.dev Secure Connection Failed The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified. Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

Works fine on Firefox/Android here

https://blog.exe.dev/

I am not sure. I even tried Google Chrome

This site can’t provide a secure connection blog.exe.dev sent an invalid response. ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR

https://i.imgur.com/HOwb7g3.jpeg

also tried mozilla firefox on desktop

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to blog.exe.dev. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.

Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG

    The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
    Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.
ssl labs says everything is fine

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=blog.exe.dev

Re: Exe.dev

#170
I really like the concept, the persistence (with backups!), pre-installed agents, and how easy it is to go from experiment to a live server.

The downsides:

- usage-based pricing would be nice, $20/month is pretty steep to start, but also no room to scale up?

- 100GB/month is only 300k views for a small-ish page or API, 10k req/day is a tiny amount of traffic. Can't make anything public with that. Even the smallest servers at Hetzner have unlimited bandwidth

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