http://www.kimsufi.com/fr/index.xml
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$15 Dedicated servers from OVH
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Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH
#82Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
One way would be to publish a HTTP/JSON API for fetching a specific set of stats from a server given an authorization key, provide a reference implementation, and allow customers to build their own if they're not comfortable with that. Root SSH logins don't seem like a particularly good solution for this problem.
Why don't you use SNMPv3, which is purpose built for this stuff? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Network_Management_Prot...
There's what SNMP was built for, and then what it actually does.
I've been (un)fortunate enough to implement it more than once. Only a certain class of clients demand it because they already have built a big SNMP infrastructure.
Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH
#84I rent a dedicated server from OVH in their Canada data center. For $79/month I get the following:
1) 100mbit connection 2) Core i3-2130 w/16 GB ram 3) 2x1TB sata configured as software raid-1
To be blunt, $79 is an absurdly cheap price for that kind of hardware and connectivity. I'm more than willing to put up with an occasional network problem (hurricane Sandy disrupted some of their peering) and a management portal that is not quite as featureful as I'd like.
Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
This for maintenance reporting. How do the hell they know if one of your HD has died ? It's not mandatory. And the ssh key added enforces the source IP address of requests.
One way would be to publish a HTTP/JSON API for fetching a specific set of stats from a server given an authorization key, provide a reference implementation, and allow customers to build their own if they're not comfortable with that. Root SSH logins don't seem like a particularly good solution for this problem.
Porkchop might be a good starting point: https://github.com/disqus/porkchop
Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH
#86I rent a dedicated server from OVH in their Canada data center. For $79/month I get the following: 1) 100mbit connection 2) Core i3-2130 w/16 GB ram 3) 2x1TB sata configured as software raid-1 To be blunt, $79 is an absurdly cheap price for that kind of hardware and connectivity. I'm more than willing to put up with an occasional network problem (hurricane Sandy disrupted some of their peering) and a management porta…
That's the English pricing. They recently updated their French page:
http://www.ovh.com/ca/fr/serveurs-dedies/
The same server is $49/month + tax now.
Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have no idea what you're talking about or who you think you're arguing with but it isn't me. Especially amusing that whoever would say these crazy things you're saying would still be better off than giving remote root SSH away for stats collection . Sheesh.
It's OK, we all give bad advice sometimes. You clearly just advocated replacing SSH with a custom HTTP server that effectively always requires root, and furthermore to advocate users mess with this root-running code. I don't understand why you can't see this.
I'm not sure if you're aware or not, but you can fine-grain permissions to anything on the box however you like. There's even built-in documentation.
Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH
#88Online.net (French as well) also has a competitive 10€ pricing: http://www.online.net/fr/serveur-dedie
Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mathematically, giving root login to person X is never more secure against person X than any other interaction with person X. I think the idea was regarding other people. With SSH, what you are exposing to those who lack the key is SSH, which is well hardened. If you set up a web service naively and run it as root, you have a weaker surface more exposed in exchange for more security against a mostly trusted party (wh…
Accidentally revealing server stats because of a bug handling a trivial authentication token is less of a big deal than giving a third party root shell access to your server, is my point.
But a bug in a web-server running as root might lead to privileged execution of arbitrary code.
It's certainly true that a bug in the authentication code that incorrectly grants access is of substantially less severity than a leak or abuse of root key/password.
Re: $15 Dedicated servers from OVH
#90And just in case somebody isn't comfortable using the french website, the irish one has the same offers: http://www.ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml (the german one is strangely enough more expensive)
Looks like only Canadian / US / Irish customers can sign up for this one....
(Edit): the French site seem to take everyone, and has lower VAT percentage