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Have disallowed root logins over ssh? Some people advocate ssh key logins for security, but make sure private keys require a pass phrase to unlock because of the risk of someone stealing the keys from your PC. If you want to learn Linux, run it on your desktop as well, preferably the same...

@wlanboyOK, lots of reasons. I am convinced. I have no experience of running a mail server, so had no idea about load - I had assumed they were fairly simple and low load....

@DomainBopI did not think Scaleway did that: not only can you store a snapshot cheap, you can also just discontinue the compute instance and IP and keep just the storage going. Thanks for that list - there are several names I either did not know, or did not know of as cloud providers, and...

I am looking for a provider that supports quickly creating and destroying VPSs (to save the cost when they are not being used) but allows them to the easily restored. The point of it is to test and demo stuff, so I am not looking for performance or a high spec. I am looking for low cost...

Is this because mail servers attract "attention" that that may affect other services?

@HN-Matt I am not sure I understand the problem, but I am pretty sure the answer is yes.

No, sorry, do not really know about IO off hand. You are correct about free. free -h should give you more readable output. For CPU you can use top and then once you have seen the problem top -n 1 to get a static version of it.

free -h top -n 1 and copy and paste the bits you need. With free you almost certainly want the -/+ buffers/cache: line

Its more than adding two lines of code - you have to generate a CSR, jump through some verification hoops (usually just email - but some small site domains may not have email set up at all), and so on, upload and download files etc. I think that is what Let’s Encrypt is changing. StartSSL has...

A Bytemark VPS in 2006. Their pricing was a bit more competitive back then.

I should have made it clearer that I was replying to this: https://vpsboard.com/topic/7994-how-visitors-can-trust-on-your-hosting-business/?do=findComment&comment=103013 Certainly here are lots of lemons sold. I do not have the insider knowledge of the business that the providers here do, but...

Shared hosting (or one segment of it) is a lemon market, I am not sure VPS hosting is.   it is a service, not a one off sale: if quality is poor people will switch - and unlike shared hosting you tend to have reasonably knowledgeable users (I hope so, anyway, running an internet connected...

Those are JVM implementations, not an alternative VM that runs Java - i.e. unlike Dalvik they run Java bytecode. Interesting nonetheless: I had not heard of HaikuVM or Mika, as I am woefully ignorant about embedded stuff.

Good point! I was so focused on non Java languages on the JVM that I forgot that you can run the Java language on platforms other than the JVM (well, one anyway). Incidentally, you can run a number of languages (including some that also run on the JVM) on the Android Dalvik VM. So if you run...

If it is a networking devices, I pronounce it roo-ter It is is a woodworking tool ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Router_%28woodworking%29 ) I pronounce it row-ter because it is used to rout out.

Java is two different things: 1) Java the language. I do not like it much, personally 2) The platform: the JVM and the libraries. There are a lot of JVM languages other than Java, some are JVM specific (Scala, Clojure, Ceylon...) while some are JVM implementations of languages that are well...

So how come the terrorist attacking Paris did not use any encryption at all? I think it is a fake story to justify encryption restrictions.

I think a desktop client (I use MySQLWorkbench and PGAdmin) and ssh tunnelling is definitely preferable. You get a better UI, you have one less thing to install and manage on the server, and it is more secure. You do not have to use an ssh tunnel either - you can connect directly to the...

Verbose is not good in itself. Overly terse languages can be difficult to read (like APL), but readability is good, and being concise is good if it improves readability. That is why I like Python. IN this particular case a As for PHP, this expresses my opinion of it better than I could...

Do you mean things like a property access over a foreign key causing a query? A good ORM should let you optimise by joining. It is a problem with a lot of ORMs if you need to do it, but not something most web apps need - usually you only fetch what you are displaying on the page and you do not...