Vps

Cruising a VPS at OpenBSD Amsterdam

       1760 words, 9 minutes

When it comes to getting an OpenBSD virtual machine, you can go to your preferred Linux VPS provider and hack its rescue mode to install OpenBSD. Or you can go to a VPS provider that offers booting from an ISO file and getting access to the console. In that case, you’d probably get an OpenBSD VM running on KVM. Which is not that bad. But you can also book your VM from OpenBSD Amsterdam and let the 100% OpenBSD journey begin.

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Encrypted OpenBSD 6.0 in the OVH Cloud

       851 words, 4 minutes

OVH provides very cheap IaaS. VPS 2016 SSD 1 costs about $3/month to get 1 vCPU, 2GB of RAM and 10GB of SSD storage. It is supposed to provide Linux only virtual machines. But one can achieve installation of OpenBSD with a little help from the Internet and a few cups of coffee. Here’re my notes.

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