[mdlug] Looking for Shell Accounts

[Brandon F]

Great, thanks for the quick responses.  I thought about telling them to go
the VM route but my focus was to have something outward facing that they can
play with and not have to host it from home since they don't have any
experience with iptables or anything.  Also having something you're paying
for, or at least hosted on someone else's machine, creates a feeling of
responsibility and keeps you working on it, at least for me.

Brandon

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:10 AM, <mat.enders at gmail.com> wrote:

> I recommend chunkhost right now they are giving away free VMs with 512MB of
> ram and 20GB hard disk root access and full control.  You have to give them
> a credit card to sign up but I have had one for 2 months now and they have
> not charged me and they say all over the place how they won't charge you
> without asking first.
> Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brandon F <bfotiu at gmail.com>
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> Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 08:57:06
> To: <mdlug at mdlug.org>
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> Subject: [mdlug] Looking for Shell Accounts
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> First of all I want to say hello to everyone again, I'm a longtime reader
> but first time poster.
>
> I manage a small BPO team and a couple of my members want to expand their
> skills beyond Level 1.  I've been recommending Linux to them based on my
> appreciation for the toolset and the opportunity it can give them to get
> out
> of helpdesk hell.  So far we've all been studying for the first two Linux
> Professionals Institute certification tests but while I have a few working
> systems, my people are pretty green.
>
> Can anyone recommend a good place to buy shell access so they can get their
> hands dirty and dig into a system with little consequence?  I'm thinking
> bare bones Ubuntu (that's what they're learning at ITT) with just a BASH
> shell and they can get Apache, PHP, etc installed from there.  Also I'm
> looking for a place where they can take snapshots and easily restore if
> they
> seriously break anything.  I did this a few years back and it helped me
> tremendously but I wasn't able to choose the distro and had to go through
> an
> intermediary for any high level issues.
>
> The only other thing is price.  Something with >5GB of space and no more
> than $15 a month would be ideal.
>
> Thanks for your time and any responses.
>
> Brandon
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