It's definitely appropriate
It's never inappropriate >.>
<.<
Using the serial console? :P  "I don't know how I would get to the console for that though."
Yeah, I don't know anything about how to do that.
ipmitool -I lanplus -L OPERATOR -H $IP -U calyptix -E sol activate 1
well, use your username too *oops*
Don't use mine, it probably won't work :p
doesn't that have to be enabled in freebsd?
or is it always present when booting?
Configuring your OS is an exercise left to the reader.
i.e. I don't know what FreeBSD does, I run something else on my dedi.
Yeah... I seem to recall that you have to do something during installation to enable the serial console
... https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html
Is there a way for me to rename my VPS's?  Change the names to something more useful than e.g. caseyandgina-543bca?
in the portal somewhere you can set a service label I think it's called
yeah, I did that, and it shows up after the other name and a comma.
but what is that other name?  It's not the UUID...
I assume it's some internal identifier
also when it comes to Service Names, it also adds a suffix only there - but how to change the seemingly hardcoded "Generic VM" or "Debian 8.0 VPS" strings?
I'm sure up_the_irons finds it useful for the identifiers to come with the customer name...
email support@arpnetworks.com.
nah
I'm not sure what goes into that but I do know they are configured differently depending on the OS
so if you change the OS
right, sure would be nice to be able to see what those parameters are, and control them directly, via the control panel.
it's a black box now.  You try a generic VM set up yourself, vs. a Debian one blown away, and get different emulated hardware...but there's no direct way to control these settings.
hi
hi
haha
that's not going to confuse anyone
BryceBot, do you know any more?
"It's so *lifelike*!"
apparently not