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I have some questions for the current users of vps 2,3,6,7,9,16,17,18 .... these are the kvm VPS s without control panel.

1) what are the Linux flavours you use ? centos, ubuntu. please mention version

2) could you afford to spare / reserve say 3-5 GB space on your HDD for system recovery or reinstall on your own any time you like ? 

3) do you want option to emergency reboot to a live environment with vnc access and recover / reinstall from there ?

4) do you use passwords or key file to login to your vps through ssh ?

5) what is your current hdd partition scheme ? what would you do differently if you could configure it during install ?

thanks

re. I'm working on getting a unified system to fresh install Linux on these VPSs. So your input is very important.

thanks..

My current VPS: VPS 9

1) what are the Linux flavours you use ? centos, ubuntu. please mention version

Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS

2) could you afford to spare / reserve say 3-5 GB space on your HDD for system recovery or reinstall on your own any time you like ? 

Yup, since VPS 9 comes with 100GB of SSD storage, I won’t mind having 3-5GB reserved for that purpose.

3) do you want option to emergency reboot to a live environment with vnc access and recover / reinstall from there ?

Since VPS 9 doesn’t have a holder-accessible panel (to anyone saying it doesn’t have a panel, it actually does but only the admins have access to it due to all the VPS 9s being under one user), it would be great to have something I can personally access to perform said tasks without bothering the admins. However, i’ll only use it if the reinstall is done from iso... I dont want to reinstall from a template.

4) do you use passwords or key file to login to your vps through ssh ?

I use a key to login through ssh. I have password login disabled to maximize security.

5) what is your current hdd partition scheme ? what would you do differently if you could configure it during install ?

I left it as the default partition scheme that the ubuntu server iso installation wizard utilized (didn’t really check as it doesn’t matter in my case).

A few questions sparked into my mind:

1) Do you have approval from the admins to implement said system?

2) How is it going to work? Since SolusVM’s API doesn’t have much client-side to make this work. And VPS 9 is managed by the admins through SolusVM.