[Gllug] Hosting recommendation

[Dan Kolb]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 06:11:26PM +0100, Harry Rickards wrote:
> I have used GoDaddy in the past, who offer SSH access on all their
> hosting accounts. I now use FSCKVPS, which offer's cheap VPS's (about a
> fiver a month). On Sunday evening, someone hacked in via LXLabs HyperVM
> and ran rm -rf /. They've got everything pretty much under control now,
> and my server was restored Monday afternoon, but you may want to wait a
> couple of weeks/months before placing a new order. The story even made
> it to the front page of Slashdot (probably because the author of HyperVM
> hanged himself.

That's a bit of an overreaction to a security problem in one's software, isn't
it?

Dan
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