18 Mar
2010
18 Mar
'10
2:10 p.m.
Hello,
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:36:30AM -0000, Nigel Rantor wrote:
Borderline. Although as I think I said in an earlier post I think the idea
of these systems is good, personally I've not gotten around to it yet.
The thing is, whatever you decide to install to perform function X on a
VPS some other sysadmin may want a different package to accomplish that,
and will end up removing or simply not using the things you installed "for
free".
I liken it to getting a "fresh" laptop or computer from a manufacturer
only to find they've decided what firewall, IM and other clients you'd
"like" to have on the system.
I value factory-fresh. Other people value other things.
I'll stop before I start rambling...
n
I provisioned a very, very small system, and
becasue of that I don't
want
uneccessary cruft running on the box before I even begin.
Multiple images: fine.
Default images bloated by stuff I just never want installed: no.
Does this mean that you'd have been annoyed if your VPS had come
with Fail2Ban installed already?