[olug] Shell accounts? [OT?]

[Justin Reiners]

I use digital ocean as well, $5/mo will get you a nice instance.

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 9:57 AM, David Walker (OLUG) <olug at grax.com> wrote:

> If you're willing to spring for $5/month, Linode is a great provider that
> I've been with for years.
>
> You can pick your distribution, you have full Linux machine under your
> control and you can upsize or downsize easily.
>
>
> 64 bit Distributions
>     Arch 2017.07.01
>     CentOS 7
>     CoreOS Container Linux
>     Debian 8
>     Debian 9
>     Fedora 26
>     Gentoo 2017-07-12
>     OpenSUSE Leap 42.3
>     Slackware 14.2
>     Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
>     Ubuntu 17.04
>
> Older Distributions
>     CentOS 6.8
>     Debian 7
>     Fedora 25
>     openSUSE Leap 42.2
>     Slackware 13.37
>     Slackware 14.1
>     Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > There are places that give you more than a shell, a free virtual machine.
> >
> > https://www.clearvm.com/#clearvm-pricing    sounds like free hardware in
> > the cloud.
> > https://c9.io/pricing
> > https://cloud.google.com/free/
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 1:20 PM, Ben Hollingsworth <obiwan at jedi.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Sounds interesting, but I wonder how well that would work over your
> > > typical hotel WiFi connection where they restrict which ports can get
> > out.
> > >
> > >
> > > On 09/14/2017 12:53 PM, Jon Larsen wrote:
> > >
> > >> Ben,
> > >>
> > >> Have you looked at Port knocking for your home firewall?
> > >> https://n0where.net/ssh-port-knocking/
> > >>
> > >> Jon L.
> > >>
> > >> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 9:40 AM, Ben Hollingsworth <obiwan at jedi.com>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On 09/13/2017 10:26 PM, Herb Wolfe wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Does anyone know of any providers of shell accounts? I'd prefer local
> > or
> > >>>> free. I've been using Internet Nebraska for some 20-odd years, and
> > they
> > >>>> are
> > >>>> going to drop shell access soon. Web hosting is a bonus, as they've
> > also
> > >>>> changed their setup for that as well.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Yeah, that made me sad.  My shell account at falcon.inetnebr.com is
> > my
> > >>> longest-standing Unix shell account, at 23 years.  I created the
> second
> > >>> login account on that machine in June 1994.  I'm sad to see it go.  I
> > can
> > >>> understand why IN is making that change, though.  We live in a
> > different
> > >>> world now than we did back thenk.
> > >>>
> > >>> I can live with losing direct vi access to my main web site's HTML
> > files,
> > >>> because I've been slowly converting that web site over to Wordpress
> > for a
> > >>> while now (it's big), and I run a web server on my home machine for
> > those
> > >>> one-off instances when I need to temporarily serve something without
> > >>> Wordpress.
> > >>>
> > >>> The biggest bummer, nostalgia aside, is SSH access.  In order to keep
> > the
> > >>> log file noise to a minimum, my home firewall restricts which IP
> blocks
> > >>> are
> > >>> allowed to SSH into my home computer.  On the rare occasion when I
> need
> > >>> to
> > >>> SSH in from an unapproved network, I was always able to SSH into
> falcon
> > >>> first, then jump from there to my home machine.  That route is no
> > longer
> > >>> an
> > >>> option, so I'll probably have to open up the firewall again.  Or
> maybe
> > I
> > >>> can just paint with a bigger brush & block foreign IP's using that
> list
> > >>> that somebody posted recently.
> > >>>
> > >>> It was also handy to use my shell account on falcon to get a second
> > >>> opinion when I was seeing odd network behavior from home.  That'll be
> > >>> annoying to lose, too.
> > >>>
> > >>> I'll have to check out freeshell.org and sdf.org.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >
> > > --
> > > *Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth* obiwan at jedi.com <mailto:obiwan at jedi.com>
> > > www.Jedi.com <http://www.jedi.com>
> > > The stuff of earth competes for the allegiance I owe only to the
> > > Giver of all good things, so if I stand, let me stand on the
> > > promise that You will pull me through. /-- Rich Mullins/
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