When you encrypt your disk and remove/disable the guest-agent, the provider/reseller can't touch anything, that "reset password" feature is simply mounting your image in rescue mode

Encrypting your disk, disabling the guest agent, NOT using the provider template and using your own ISO is 99% of the practical security you can have for relatively low effort, which majority of peopl

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Seems like you could protect from that by disabling the guest agent and encrypting the disk. Then the only way in would require the ability to directly modify memory state, which would require root on

Disk = 1 TB

DisabledRAM : 15.6 GiBSwap : 0.0 KiBDisk : 295.2 GiBDistro : Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)Kernel : 6.12.107+deb13-cloud-amd64VM Type : KVMIPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ❌ Offlin

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* Disk: 2TB

Also sharing my YABS results. Better late than never lol

You could hear it through 3 layers of double brick while it booted. Now it has 6x92mm fans at full speed, nearly silent after one layer of double brick.

: 1.9 GiBSwap : 1024.0 MiBDisk : 24.5 GiBDistro : Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)Kernel : 6.12.105+deb13-cloud-amd64VM Type : KVMIPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ✔ OnlineIPv6 Networ

there are providers that include a small backup disk at no extra charge.

In my case, everything was fine for the first 3 months, then they botched an update to the virtualization software (30 minutes of downtime), then there was some issue with the weather (the server was

I bought a VPS from them, but its disk performance is extremely poor, at only around 40 MB/s. I opened a support ticket and provided both the server ID and its IP address. They replied that I must hav

DisabledRAM : 9.7 GiBSwap : 0.0 KiBDisk : 4.9 TiBDistro : AlmaLinux 9.8 (Olive Jaguar)Kernel : 5.14.0-162.23.1.el9_1.x86_64VM Type : KVMIPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline

I don’t need any more bandwidth, I don’t need any more speed. I just need the connection between the VPS and my home lab not to drop every time the so-called firewall automatically creates a rule for

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In general: there are always people who are capable of getting access to your disk, reset your password, mount the disk on another machine, sniff your network traffic, etc. There are things you can do

yabs from a few servers

: 464.1 MiBSwap : 2.0 GiBDisk : 19.5 GiBDistro : Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)Kernel : 6.12.107+deb13-amd64VM Type : KVMIPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ✔ OnlineIPv6 Network Infor