[TriLUG] recommendations for on-line Linux VM

[Stephen Wiley via TriLUG]

I have a Linode VM and used Digital ocean in college. They definitely
sell VMs (that's what "droplets" are on Ditigal ocean, it's just a KVM
instance. IIRC you upload your public ssh key via the web GUI when you
create the machine.)

They're both great providers. I'm using Linode currently.

You're right though, their website is surprisingly poorly designed. I
haven't visited it in years and remember shopping being much more
straightforward. The "shared CPU compute" is what you're looking for.
Here's the URL with that: https://www.linode.com/pricing/#row--compute
The anchor may be wrong so double check the heading you're looking at.

Both should be about the same price. The $5/month one on either will be
plenty for what you want to do and at that price point you're
approaching the cost of a non-.com domain name.

--Stephen

On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 08:05:57PM +0000, Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG wrote:
> I want a Linux machine on-line, that I can logon at the command line, like I
> do with my home machines, and pilot. I want it to run a lightly used a
> website. I also want to be able to install and remove files at will had not
> have any blocked ports.
> 
> I tried linode.com and digitalocean.com. Their webpages are all marketting
> full of "products" and "solutions". They aren't offering VMs. Maybe they are
> but they're buried beneath marketting (digitalocean is offering droplets),
> in which case I'm not their target.
> 
> Thanks Joe
> 
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