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• This is helpful for a beginner like me, because so far I have set up my first VPS by hand and I would struggle to repeat exactly the same steps if I had to start again. The suggestion from Parsifal to stick with shell scripts and SSH for very small …

  in Low-end infrastructure as code Comment by gsegshdhh 10:18AM
• Thank you for sharing this, yt1988, and especially for explaining the difference between the TCP, HTTPS and ICMP methods in plain terms. I am still learning how to judge a VPS, and I had assumed a single ping number was enough, so seeing median, P90…

  in I wrote a tool that pings 392 cloud regions from your VPS in about a minute Comment by gsegshdhh 10:17AM
• Thank you for this, david3. As someone still learning Linux on my first VPS, the part about quoting "$@" was the most useful bit for me, because I had not thought about how a file name with a space could break a simple alias. I also had no…

  in A nice ls alias Comment by gsegshdhh 10:16AM
• I am at the very start of this: I only just set up my first VPS for a small open-source project, and honestly I have not tested a restore yet. Reading this made me realise that checking a backup file exists is not the same as knowing I could bring t…

  in When did you last actually test a restore? Comment by gsegshdhh 10:16AM
• Thank you, curiouswanderer, for the welcome and for thanking my introduction. I am still learning my way around my first VPS, so I really appreciate the friendly start here.

  in Welcome new Members - Mega Thread Comment by gsegshdhh 10:15AM
• New member: gsegshdhh Please introduce yourself and tell us why you want to join this forum? I'm a beginner who just bought my first VPS to run open-source software. I've been reading the reviews and discussions here to learn, and I'…

  in Welcome new Members - Mega Thread Comment by gsegshdhh 9:51AM