Would you use it?

[mrn]

Just tinkering around with a few ideas and wanted to get some feedback.

How useful would it be to people to have remote access to a AIX / HP-UX / Solaris server as a sandbox. I have several servers laying about at home and was thinking about chucking them on the net and hiring them out (remote root access) for people to play with for self training or practice before cert tests.

Thoughts

Mike

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."

 

[itsp1965]

Actually there are a few sites out there that currently provide this service. If you google "Free Unix shell access" you will see a few for a nominal fee. If you're not worried about constantly maintaining security or worried about having to re-build these servers, then I guess one more site that allows this can't hurt

 

[jpor2003]

It's a good idea in principal. But I ended up buying my own workstation so I could do more than that. For example playing about with scripts, re-installing the O/S. Tape manipulation, playing about with the hardware, hotswap disks etc... If you were to only have these available for remote access, then it would also be valuable to others if they want to play with the basics. But as itsp1965 mentions, if you don't mind spending time having to rebuild these servers once someone trashs it. Go for it!

 

[mrn]

Thanks for the feedback.

I've seen and tried using several of the free shell sites but have found most to be fairly tedious to use. Most are only offering linux type shells and the one that was offering the big three (AIX / Solaris / HP-UX) polarhome seems to have disappeared in recent weeks.

My only real concern now is connection speeds......

Mike

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."