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I don't see a lot of discussion about security at the moment, other than a potential for self-hosting. I created an account but I don't see MFA, which is a hard requirement for me. I'd love to look again once virtual MFA or hardware MFA is supported. I'd also be comfortable with GitHub OAuth as well, since I can manage MFA there and I think I'd integrate GitHub anyway. I'd love to see a paid bug bounty program for a product like this. If that's addressed, I'm interested, although my use case is different. I do contract work, mostly short-term time-sensitive projects where I need to rapidly get productive on client systems. So far I've managed this by working from a beefy machine and putting each client's environment in their own local VM. The separation of clients is important since I work with multiple clients at a time, and mixing would be a huge issue. This works fairly well. At the start of the contract I spin up a new VM. I've got standard dotfiles and install scripts I copy/paste from a Gist, then I manually install anything client specific. I needed to spin up a cloud env recently for a client who had a very memory hungry web app. The cloud env worked well, although I noticed the latency. It looks like Nimbus will let me spin down my "beefy cloud VM" when I'm not using it, to save costs. I don't do that currently, mostly because I don't see a _trivial_ one-click way to do it. This looks like roughly 2x EC2 pricing (8cpu/32G $0.26 vs $0.58), so reducing running hours is key. I'd want fast VM start times, I don't want to wait too long. I'd probably be interested in even larger instance types, as throwing more hardware on a project is worth it to me if it helps me work faster and justify higher rates. (edit, looks like there's a 14 day trial. I won't try this before there's an MFA solution, but it would be nice if the trial would start when I spin up the first VM.) |
>I'd love to look again once virtual MFA or hardware MFA is supported.
MFA is not far. We have already started to work on MFA across our solution. I will ping you as soon as we have it ready for you.
Actually your use case is also something we are really interested in. Engineers who work on contracts or work at IT consultant companies switch between different environments way more frequently than other use cases. I wonder how you mitigate that problem today?
> The cloud env worked well, although I noticed the latency.
About latency, can I ask what your geolocation is? (country?) and which region did you select from Nimbus?
> I'd want fast VM start times
We have provided a `active hours` feature (not available for trial user). You can have your server start/stop at a given time of the day. During that time range your server will always be active. only takes about 10-15 seconds to connect.