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by jskrablin
1254 days ago
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I was maintaining a few public terminals for Internet access in local hackerspace many moons ago - back when the cheap broadband and wifi at every corner weren't at all common. Terminals were diskless Pentium 100 (or even slower) PCs that PXE booted off the terminal server Xen VM running Xfce via Xvfb. Terminals were basically oversized I/O controllers taking care of keyboard/mouse inputs and driving video output. Nowadays you could use similar approach to run cluster for in-memory compute tasks or similar. PXE boot identical OS to bunch of servers and have them compute sth. If you need to repurpose them for something else - reboot them into a different PXE boot image. In case of VPN providers the motivation is probably to prevent (permanent) logging of sensitive information. |
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