Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > With a VPS it's more like tou get a virtual machine and you're > responsible for administering it. You can usually choose the OS > (usually from popular Linux distributions, but some also provide > FreeBSD or OpenBSD which I've come to prefer), choose which servers > you want to run (mail, web-server, database, IRC, whatever), install > those, and you are responsible for upgrades too. For these, I've been > pleased with (or heard good things from people I trust about) OVH, > Vultr, Digital Ocean, and Linode. Hi, this is Chris Brannon. I should mention up front that I work for a VPS hosting company, Prgmr.com. I've been using their service for 7 years, and I've been an employee for just over a year. One thing you should definitely consider when buying VPS service is the accessibility of the out-of-band console. If your system breaks so badly that you cannot connect to it via SSH to the VPS, you'll need to fix it from an out-of-band console. If the VPS provider provides this using a VNC connection, it is completely inaccessible, because a VNC connection just transmits bitmapped images rather than text. A GUI screen reader like Orca does not avail here, because those operate at a much higher level of the GUI stack than the raw bitmap level. Perhaps OCR is the only recourse when dealing with a VNC connection. With Prgmr.com, not only is the out-of-band console in text mode, but all of the VPS management functions are done through a straightforward menued text interface. I think many of the people on this list would really love it. To that end, I've uploaded a transcript of me working with the management console for a test VPS: http://the-brannons.com/prgmr-session.txt It's a bit too long to attach to this message. -- Chris _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list