Diskless infrastructure in beta (System Transparency: stboot) (2022)
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Re: Diskless infrastructure in beta (System Transparency: stboot) (2022)
#2Wow, I had no idea "diskless infrastructure" was even a thing. Easy to imagine in theory, but this is the first time I'm hearing about it in practice, and it makes total sense in this case.
It makes me curious if there are any other real-world use cases for diskless. Are there any customers who would benefit from such a configuration from major cloud providers? E.g. a diskless EC2 instance type that ran off of a RAM disk?
Re: Diskless infrastructure in beta (System Transparency: stboot) (2022)
#3Mullvad offers flat rate $5 (no matter 1 month or 12 months or 120 months) and never have any sales so I'm surprised to see these[1] prepaid amazon cards ARE offering discounts: 12mo @ $4.75/mo & 6mo @ $4.83/mo esp. when these are /physical/ code-card purchases
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Mullvad-VPN-Devices-Protect-Security/...
Re: Diskless infrastructure in beta (System Transparency: stboot) (2022)
#4I wish I could buy shares in this company.
However, what makes them great and unique is that they're ideologically motivated, so of course they're not selling shares.
Re: Diskless infrastructure in beta (System Transparency: stboot) (2022)
#5Mullvad offers flat rate $5 (no matter 1 month or 12 months or 120 months) and never have any sales so I'm surprised to see these[1] prepaid amazon cards ARE offering discounts: 12mo @ $4.75/mo & 6mo @ $4.83/mo esp. when these are /physical/ code-card purchases [1] https://www.amazon.com/Mullvad-VPN-Devices-Protect-Security/...
Probably bought with stolen credit cards and being resold.
Re: Diskless infrastructure in beta (System Transparency: stboot) (2022)
#6I could see some defence companies being paranoid enough for this (although they'd be more skeptical about the cloud provider part).
Re: Diskless infrastructure in beta (System Transparency: stboot) (2022)
#7Mullvad offers flat rate $5 (no matter 1 month or 12 months or 120 months) and never have any sales so I'm surprised to see these[1] prepaid amazon cards ARE offering discounts: 12mo @ $4.75/mo & 6mo @ $4.83/mo esp. when these are /physical/ code-card purchases [1] https://www.amazon.com/Mullvad-VPN-Devices-Protect-Security/...
They do provide a nominal discount if you pay with Bitcoin, though I assumed that had something to do with the lack of payment processor fees so it doesn't necessarily explain why the Amazon prices are different.
Re: Diskless infrastructure in beta (System Transparency: stboot) (2022)
#8Wow, I had no idea "diskless infrastructure" was even a thing. Easy to imagine in theory, but this is the first time I'm hearing about it in practice, and it makes total sense in this case. It makes me curious if there are any other real-world use cases for diskless. Are there any customers who would benefit from such a configuration from major cloud providers? E.g. a diskless EC2 instance type that ran off of a RAM…
Thanks - we've changed the URL to the article they link to about that.
Submitted URL was https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/12/30/review-of-2022/, which is a list, and that item looks like the most interesting thing on this list. (see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... for why we do this sometimes)
Re: Diskless infrastructure in beta (System Transparency: stboot) (2022)
#9These are great updates. I couldn't be happier with mullvad. The VPN space is saturated with a lot of VPNs constantly advertising with borderline false claims (a VPN won't stop advertisers from targeting you for example) and adding unrelated features (like an anti-virus). But mullvad is off to the side providing a high quality, truly private, VPN service at a great price.
Re: Diskless infrastructure in beta (System Transparency: stboot) (2022)
#10Mullvad offers flat rate $5 (no matter 1 month or 12 months or 120 months) and never have any sales so I'm surprised to see these[1] prepaid amazon cards ARE offering discounts: 12mo @ $4.75/mo & 6mo @ $4.83/mo esp. when these are /physical/ code-card purchases [1] https://www.amazon.com/Mullvad-VPN-Devices-Protect-Security/...
They don't have any other rate for you and me as individuals, but I'm sure they offer them slightly cheaper for resellers like Mozilla and Malwarebytes.
Those resellers then charge about the same price as Mullvad, but get to keep a piece of that as profit.