[marshray]

Thanks for the clarification.

ISTR being able to back up Linode images, migrate them around, and perform some other admin tasks from the web interface. So I still wonder if the "air gap" API is a bit more powerful than simply the ability to request a reboot. But, again, I don't know.

[tiredofcareer]

Those buttons just instruct the hosts to do things and don't actually have power themselves.

[marshray]

The buttons belie the existence of an API that can "instruct the hosts to do things". Some of those "things" are pretty powerful.

Without knowing what those things are, I'll just take your word for it that none of them could ever possibly be leveraged to compromise a host or guest without unmaskable and permanent messages appearing in the logs.