• dev_null@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Any VPS provider just gives you an SSH IP and port. So that’s the default state, until you do something else, which I imagine many don’t, since key based authentication was always considered secure.

    So I don’t know the reason, but that’s the standard practice with most providers, like Digital Ocean or Linode or whatever. You can call them maniacs but you shouldn’t be surprised at something so ubiquitous.

    • KeenFlame@feddit.nu
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      4 hours ago

      Speaking of which, what VPS provider would you recommend for private use? I just need something small and cheap for always on headscale, matrix, keyguard-app and the likes, but I have no idea where to start looking.

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        2 hours ago

        Literally anyone, I’m paying ~£40 a year for a fasthosts VPS, was kind of a what can I get in the next 5mins thing, rather than a deep dive in to features. I did have a VPS at one point that had some kind of Microsoft hypervisor that made me vomit in my mouth bit when I found out. Just watch out as the bottom end of the market is full of enshitification that you don’t notice at first until you want to change the rdns or some other basic thing