Europe Pub (PieFed)Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/658371
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I'd be cautious following simple commands and configs without explanation or knowing what they do. And when someone copies public keys via clipboard I'm skeptic. Use ssh-copy-id or at least scp. And with Hetzner you can add your public key to their panel and it will be automatically added to every installation.
As it is stated, this is just a journal / checklist for someone and made publicly available. Don't blindly follow such things without understanding what you are doing.
Good call, I don't want to know how my clipboard history in KDE Plasma looks like
It's the public key so it's not bad for security reasons. For me it just feels wrong to copy the content of a file to another using the clipboard. It can cause problems and one day you'll do it out of habit with something you shouldn't.
good summary.
two thoughts
This isn't so much a guide as it is one person's list of setup steps.
well.
guide definition:
whats the difference?
I'm far from an expert, but I've been using Hetzner for close to 20 years at this point. Both their VPSes and the actual rent-a-server.
I skimmed the article and I didn't notice anything blatantly bad in the approach. So they have my approval.
I personally don't enable automated upgrades anywhere, but I'm 25yrs into sysadmin and I have a pathological aversion to services being down.
I use some automation with ansible, but I like manual triggering so that a problem can manifest when I want it to (like a change window) and I can respond appropriately.
I also would include steps to back up the ssh public keys or have an alternate console available.
But as someone else mentioned, these seem to be someone's step guide to installs.