A new version of TurnKey Linux was recently released, and this time this version 12 is based of Debian 6, not Ubuntu 12. While the software packages from Debian Stable tend to be a bit too old for my taste, especially for Mercurial, the result is still rock-solid.
In the past I tended to skip past the various commercial offerings of TurnKey with its integration with Amazon EC2, but with Amazon's such aggressive pricing, starting at only $0.02 per hour, having a small Linux server "in the cloud" is tempting to say the least.
I still have other priorities for now. First, LogMeIn is so unreliable on a headless Mac server that I need to find another inexpensive solution, and I don't like much the prospect of making SSH publicly accessible without finding ways to harden it (does Mac 10.8 support multiple SSH instances on different ports?). So, let's start with servers I already own before building up new ones.
Published on September 6, 2012 at 20:25 EDT
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