[nfbcs] Beware of DIgitalOcean

[Vincenzo Rubano]

Mike,

could you elaborate a little bit more on the SSH gateway for the console to a Linode VPS?

I’ve tried LISSH but I found it pretty painful to use from an accessibility point of view…


> Il giorno 03 gen 2017, alle ore 20:57, Mike Gorse via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> ha scritto:
> 
> I'd been using DigitalOcean to host a vps. I tried to upgrade the system, and something went wrong such that it won't boot, or doesn't set up networking correctly. I went to try to access the console on Linux, and, with most of the OS/browser/screen reader combinations I tried, I got a "canvas not supported" error. Even if I didn't see this error, I suspect that they're using the html5 canvas element and that the console interface wouldn't be accessible.
> 
> Not looking into their mechanism for accessing the console before signing up was a big mistake. You don't need access to the console until you do. I'm switching to linode, since they provide a ssh gateway for accessing the server's console, and it turns out to be a better fit for me regardless.
> 
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