[alanpost]

Prgmr.com has been participating on the Slack channel this article mentions. Being able to share notes gleaned from reaching out to vendors and sort through the information and mitigations for Spectre and Meltdown has been a huge help.

[paulzerkel]

I work for a cloud computing company that would have benefitted (and hopefully contributed) from being on that Slack. If you have the time, would you mind reaching out to me with details? My email is in my profile.

[alanpost]

Here is where I asked to join:

https://twitter.com/prgmrcom/status/949023633581592576

Following up to @scaleway on Twitter in the same manner would hopefully work out.

I've sent you an email with a bit of elaboration on this.

[walterbell]

Do you think the communication channel will persist beyond the current vulnerability? E.g. give it a name, allow other cloud providers to join?

[mikmak]

actually this kind of channel existed before (with OVH at first for the last few months, to fight some big abusers/phishings together) I guess it will depends on everyone's good will, but most of us will probably stay connected, it does not cost much to keep a slack tab opened (well a few Gb of memory haha, thanks Slack) ;)

[thepumpkin1979]

What's the advantage of Prgmr?

[alanpost]

You can manage your VPS over SSH using our management console.[1] Since most of our users access their VPS using SSH, it's nice to use the same protocol for powering a machine off and on or accessing the serial console.

By and large our customers know what they're doing. That lets us provide IRC and email-based support that has been described more as working with a colleague than interacting with a vendor. This can be helpful when, for example, a user self-hosting email receives a complaint or has a delivery issue.

Most of the time though we just get out of the way and let you work on your VPS.

1: https://wiki.prgmr.com/mediawiki/index.php/Management_Consol...