[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox experiment & Sister project
Charles N Wyble
charles at knownelement.com
Wed Jun 15 07:14:12 UTC 2011
On 06/15/2011 01:54 AM, David Edmondson wrote:
> * charles at knownelement.com [2011-06-15 Wed 05:59]
>>> Running that server, it appeared to me that standard DSL link
>>> reliability is quite an issue.
>> It certainly can be. Especially the dirt cheap plans offered by the
>> telco providers in the USA. I paid 110.00 a month for static ip/no
>> filters/business class DSL in Los Angeles CA. I now run everything on a
>> VPS at my $dayjob for ~50.00 a month.
> My worry about using a VPS is that we lose some of the useful properties
> of the system being physically located at our homes. For example:
You are 100% correct.
> - Using an encrypted disk is more complex, because I can't easily
> provide keying material when the system boots,
Right. This is a problem in many applications (for example how does one
have non static passphrases for encrypted boot drives). Bios is becoming
smarter and including network stack etc.
> - The system is no longer under my physical control, so I can't
> destroy it, move it to another site, etc.
Right.
> - The company providing the VPS may have a different legal obligation
> to an individual should a government agency ask for information
> about or from the system,
Certainly.
> - Moving large amounts of data to/from the system may be
> significantly more time consuming (or it may not - it depends where
> the data is coming from or going to).
Very true.
The stack currently runs on a Centos VPS, but I will be deploying a
mirrored system on Debian and releasing instructions for that.
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