Posts Tagged ‘VPS’
In the first part of this howto I went through signing up for a cloud service, provisioning a VM, installing the build tools and kicking off a build. All being well you should end up with something like this: Azure can also give you a pretty chart of how busy the VM was during the build […]
Filed under: cloud, howto, Raspberry Pi | 4 Comments
Tags: Apache, Azure, build, cloud, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, virtual machine, VM, VPS, XBMC
Building OpenELEC in the cloud
When I got my Raspberry Pi pretty much the first thing I did with it was to put on OpenELEC, and excellent shrink wrapped package for XBMC. Initially I started compiling it myself on a local virtual machine (VM), but impatience got the better of me and I downloaded an image provided by somebody else. […]
Filed under: cloud, howto, Raspberry Pi | 2 Comments
Tags: Azure, build, cloud, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, virtual machine, VM, VPS, XBMC
Firstly let me say that I like Linode a lot. They had a promotion running a little while ago which got me going with my first virtual private server (VPS), and I only moved off to somewhere from lowendbox after the promotion because my needs are small (and I wanted to match my spend accordingly)[1]. […]
Filed under: security | 4 Comments
Tags: admin, Bitcoin, console, iaas, Linode, management, password, security, SSH, VM, VPS
OpenVPN
For some time I’ve used SSH tunnels as a means to pretend that I’m somewhere else to avoid geography filters, or to otherwise sneak past content filters. This is fine for regular HTTP(S) traffic from a browser, where it is easy to define a proxy server, but doesn’t work so well for other applications – […]
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Tags: cloud, filter, iOS, iSSH, Linux, OpenVPN, PrivateTunnel, SSH, SSL, tunnel, Ubuntu, vpn, VPS, Windows
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