hello, thanks for the feedback. Just deployed a new image that only checks for the objective, not at what docker network somebody uses.

It is hard to have a checker that eliminates both false positives and false negatives in general, but we always try to minimize false negatives and we failed initially here.

Hello, SadServers guy here.

We have scenarios running on k8s, both on single VMs (the ones you can see in the scenario list) and we also have a beta/PoC k8s cluster where we currently run a couple of scenarios as single pod (a docker container) or as a full system (the "kubernetes playgrounds", which is kind of hidden while we test it).

Is this what you were wondering? we do have pending to introduce podman scenarios as well

Hello, creator here. Have you checked your dashboard? otherwise please contact us (email or form in the website) and we'll be happy to help

(Creator here) thanks! and we may at some point get into Windows :-)

Checking out how the platform works was two clicks away: home -> give me a server.

I don't know of any other SaaS which gives you a VM with one click without any registration but we do it.

In any case thanks for the feedback, I've put a button on this /advent page for clarity, cheers

This text:

> Sign up for a free account (needed to keep track of your progress)

is a complete lie. Tracking a person’s progress is what cookies are for. You don’t need us to create an account for that.

What you do need users to create accounts for, is for you to track every user and their progress.

hello, creator here, sorry about that. In this case you can click again on the "Open the Server Terminal in a New Window" button

It would be cool if we could SSH into the temporary host (I'm guessing these hosts currently aren't internet connected to avoid abuse so might not be possible or require some super careful firewalling)

Hello, SadServers guy here. Free VMs are sandboxed (no way in or out other than coming in through the proxy) for security reasons. Paid accounts have VMs with internet access and SSH access (and your pub key is added to all VMs for convenience)

I haven't set up an advent event (maybe I should) but you can do yourself a challenge a day from SadServers.com

This is similar to our experience migrating a SadServers k8s service; basically Hetzner is way cheaper and more performant than the big cloud providers BUT you have to take into account man-hours for the migration and be careful with missing services or ancillary tooling: https://docs.sadservers.com/blog/migrating-k8s-out-of-cloud-...

Big cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GP) is great for all the managed ecosystem; if you mostly only need raw computing (CPU, memory, bandwidth), then a provider like Hertzner makes a lot of sense (plus they have API and basic services like LB/firewall and object storage).

We at SadServers moved from big cloud managed K8s to Hetzner + Edka and it's an order of magnitude cheaper (obv some perks are missing).