Bare-Bones VMs — A Little Ridiculous

January 25, 2008

I have a couple of VPS servers at Slicehost. I highly recommend them — simple admin interface, good prices, and good performance. We’ve only seen a tiny amount of downtime in over a year, due to a DDoS attack at their datacenter. But I digress…

Many VPS hosts are in the practice of rolling out their own slimline custom images for installs. Just how barebones are they? Well…


[root@amped ~]# which mtop
-bash: which: command not found


A little ridiculous!

Other missing staples are wget, whois, and a few others. These are a quick yum install away, but we *nix geeks get used to taking these utilities for granted. Perhaps they could fatten the image just a bit!

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