In those times I was reliant on the goodwill of a few kind people
who gave me free shell accounts in order to learn how to use linux,
to learn various programming languages, and most usefully,
to experiment.

Now that I’m in a position of having my own server (albeit a virtual
one) I think it just that I should pay back the net community for
what it gave me for free, by giving something back.

This doesn’t mean anyone can get an account on my system.
I vet accounts, and I’m known to call people, internationally if necessary,
to verify their identities before granting them accounts.
(yes I shamelessly ripped that idea from caker’s policy)

[url]http://www.moonlightglade.net/shells[/url]

I could explain in a long flood of text why I’m not as vulnurable
as you think I am, but that’d take ages and I’m busy.
Suffice it to say I screen applications carefully, I monitor my users,
I configure the system pretty tightly, I run quite a bit of security
software (like portsentryd), I have multiple addresses (4) and can
change the DNS for any of them to map to localhost in case I get
DOSed, etc, etc….

I have a plan to beef up security in future by repartitioning, running
debian/gentoo, and reconfiguring my system again from scratch,
and generally building myself a fortress before I let users near it

You work on your linode, I’ll work on mine

In other words you are begging to be abused, hacked and DoS’ed. I dearly hope this is in some violation of the TOS.

Sunny Dubey

I run a free shells provider from my linode, and several people
have asked me how much it’s costing me! They are quite surprised
when I tell them…. A few of them have told me they’re considering
getting accounts here too, given linode.com’s prices
-Ash

I agree. I have been a customer for about a month now and bugged them about many things by now. Always professional, friendly and timely support. And an excellent product, too

Thanks,
–Tony Coffman