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My yearly call out into the ether to see if @fedora and @Hetzner_Online@social.cologne can make CoreOS a first-class citizen on Hetzner.

github.com/coreos/fedora-coreo

As the comes closer to being a thing with the launch of Domain this year, I’d really love for it to run on maintenance-free auto-updating instances instead of Ubuntu. But it looks like I’m forced to go with it as I can’t otherwise find affordable VPS hosting that can create an instance as quickly as Hetzner can.

GitHubPlatform Request: Hetzner · Issue #1324 · coreos/fedora-coreos-trackerBy aral
Aral Balkan

@major @fedora @Hetzner_Online@social.cologne Thanks, appreciate the link; sadly not something I can base a production system that launches instances for others on. (Much less a free and open source one that I hope others will also be running to do the same thing in different parts of the world. Basically, I’m building a tool to enable people/organisations to easily become Small Web* hosts so we don’t end up being the only one/another centre, once it launches.)

* ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-s

Aral Balkan · What is the Small Web?Updated June 19th, 2023 Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. But that doesn’t mean you can’t watch it! You can download Small Is Beautiful #23 directly, and watch it with your favourite video player. Small Is Beautiful (Oct, 2022): What is the Small Web and why do we need it? Today, I want to introduce you to a concept – and a vision for the future of our species in the digital and networked age – that I’ve spoken about for a while but never specifically written about: