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Re:Resilient Anonymous Communication for Everyone (Race) by ants_everywhere on Friday August 30, 2024 @07:09PM (#41405322)
> most are using VPS

The IBM operating system? Or do you just mean they run on VMs?

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Re:Resilient Anonymous Communication for Everyone (Race) by gkbrk on Friday August 30, 2024 @07:15PM (#41405353)
VPS stands for Virtual Private Server, essentially another word for a VM you can buy from hosting / cloud companies.
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Re:Resilient Anonymous Communication for Everyone (Race) by ants_everywhere on Friday August 30, 2024 @08:33PM (#41405792)
Thanks, I'm familiar with that usage but I had only ever heard it used in the context of web hosting companies and colos.

Basically a small VM on a crowded server for tasks like running a Wordpress site. So I was confused about why that was emphasized.

But it looks like it's expanded to cover things like GCP and EC2 which makes more sense.

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