I couldn't resist, so I got one to dink around with. Hell, I spend more than $12/week on power drinks, so if I can abstain for a week, I will have paid for a y

I couldn't resist, so I got one to dink around with. Hell, I spend more than $12/week on power drinks, so if I can abstain for a week, I will have paid for a year's worth of service. :) I'll have to refresh my familiarity with Debian to get the most out of it (such as how to fix apt-get from bombing with "404 Not Found" errors), but it looks like a nice minimal setup. I'm a little irked by the fact that anything other than SSH is running by default (the infamous "It works!" Apache page is up and running, for instance). I prefer FreeBSD myself, and I have a $20/month VPS at rootbsd.net (great company, btw). I need to see if there are any really tiny FreeBSD VPS services out there now. I can hear the skeptics: WTF good is a VPS w/ 5GB drive space, 20GB monthly bandwidth, and 64MB of RAM?!? A few things come to mind: 1) secondary MX server for catching mail when the main MX is down for maintenance; 2) backup NS server; 3) a machine for crawling the web, to feed back data to a back-end DB on a beefier server (might be relevant for a personal project); 4) fallback "woops! our web site is down!" web server to point the WWW load balancer at when the main servers are down for whatever reason. And my favorite: It's 99-cents, why the hell not?!?