[nfbcs] Beware of DIgitalOcean

[Ryan Mann]

I've run a couple web sites off of Dream Host and I've had no problems accessing their control panel.  I am able to access it with JAWS/NVDA on Windows and VoiceOver on the Mac.

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> On Jan 3, 2017, at 10:49 PM, David Andrews via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> This list, and all our hundreds of others, run from a Linode server. We have had good luck with them.
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> Dave
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> 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.
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>> 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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