[nfbcs] Beware of DIgitalOcean

[David Andrews]

This list, and all our hundreds of others, run from a Linode server. 
We have had good luck with them.

Dave

At 01:57 PM 1/3/2017, you wrote:
>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.