>Linode didn't offer private LANs between groups of servers. They did offer private IP addresses, but they had only a single LAN that was shared by every machin

>Linode didn't offer private LANs between groups of servers. They did offer private IP addresses, but they had only a single LAN that was shared by every machine in each data center. >Lesson learned: when software says that you need a private network, you need a private network. Hah yeah, I imagine a properly secured (famous last words) VPN setup is kinda necessary when dealing with stuff like that. Having your secrets in one place (especially remotely accessible) is a very attractive target and you don't want to find out there's a 0day (or general misconfiguration) on your management system the hard way. I'd like to think that I could make something like that work, but it's certainly more than setup and forget about it.