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Well, an alternative approach for their bare metal boxes is to request a KVM and link whatever image you in the KVM request form. They will then download it, pu
by ninjin 2y ago
Well, an alternative approach for their bare metal boxes is to request a KVM and link whatever image you in the KVM request form. They will then download it, put it into a USB stick, and plug in the KVM and USB stick. In my experience, you will have it all set up within the hour.
This is of course easier (although the KVM software is a heap of proprietary arse with a web interface or ancient Java blob), but if you are truly paranoid you will have to trust the Hetzner staff and their software stack not to bring something undesired along with your provided image.
- chocolatkey 2y agoJust a sidenote, in my experience, over the part year or so, Hetzner has finally switched to more modern KVMs with good HTML5 consoles. The Java applet was indeed a pain.
- clan 2y agoI know as well that they are often impressively quick to respond. But it is not the initial setup I am really worried about. It is those fan meet fecies moments. Being able to respond to a situation instantly. Mfsbsd was a godsend. Trying to fix problems on one OSis from a different OS is a much harder issue. Especially under pressure. I would much rather have seen they added OpenBSD to their PXE environment. Just the vanilla stuff - no fancy optimizations.