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What would be some reasons to use SDF or Hashbang? Running my own system on Digital Ocean or a similar service seems quite straightforward.
by sigjuice 10y ago
What would be some reasons to use SDF or Hashbang? Running my own system on Digital Ocean or a similar service seems quite straightforward.
- voltagex_ 10y agoIt's much cheaper. Before I had money to use Digital Ocean and the like, there was a similar service called bur.st that offered shells and it was one of my first introductions to *nix systems.
- peterwwillis 10y agoBack in the day it was prohibitively expensive to colo your own box just for fun, so you got someone who already had a box to throw you an account in exchange for not hammering it. We used to keep collections of shells across the net. Now they're mainly for nostalgia, camaraderie, and a quick remote terminal if your own system is inaccessible. Them being usually free makes it unnecessary to have your own vps if all you need is a remote place to run commands from.
- geocar 10y agoSDF isn't merely renting some ethernet and platters of rust: It's a community where you can be "local", even though it's an Internet site. I was introduced to a new customer via SDF; The person sharing the hardware your "droplet" runs on can't do that.
- kijin 10y agoI have a lifetime account at SDF, and I've set it up as an emergency email address of last resort. If I ever let my domains and all other freemail accounts expire (perhaps I'll get hit by a bus and stay in a coma for 10 years), I'll try to use my SDF account to regain control of my online presence. Well, I'll actually have to do a few more things in order to make that possible, but at least I think SDF will last longer than most other services of its kind.