Subj : Linux and Fido
To   : Kai Richter
From : Alexey Vissarionov
Date : Mon Feb 03 2020 10:06:00

Good ${greeting_time}, Kai!

03 Feb 2020 01:40:40, you wrote to Karel Kral:

 KK>> (do not have modem anyway)
 KR> Wow. No DSL-Modem? No Cablemodem?

No POTS-modem, I'd guess.

 KK>> Offline: I found KVM hosted VPS for 0.50 EUR/month. Currently
 KK>> playing with Microsoft Azure Cloud (looks 0,25EUR/month).
 KR> If it's cheap you are the product. Why don't you get a raspberry
 KR> pi and setup your point on that?

RPi is approx. 60 EUR - that would be quite enough to run a 1 EUR/month VM 
(either VPS or even VDS) for 5 years.

 KR> Should work with raspian or FreeBSD.

Neither of these could be used for a sensitive system.

 KR> You keep control over your system and data.

Yes, that's a strong advantage.


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