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by stevekemp 4193 days ago
You provide root-logins for virtual machines, which sounds nice. Cheapest seems to be £6 a month for 512Mb and small disk space which isn't excessive, but doesn't mention VAT.

Do you provide IPv6? Can users run their own kernels, or are these externally provided? Do you provide access to the serial console, or VNC, if the user makes a firewalling mistake? Where are your machines hosted, and do you own them or merely resell? Can users configure custom reverse DNS for their IPs?
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philgourley 4193 days ago
Hi Steve - Thanks for your questions! We're going to update our site to reflect some of these answers but I wanted to answer you directly. I'm pleased to say that there are no restrictions for users to run their own kernels. We also do provide access to a remote console access via HTML5 Canvas. That's available in your account immediately after purchase. Currently our machines are owned by Hivelocity but we do have around the clock support with them. And we do allow users to configure custom reverse DNS for their IPs.

We really appreciate the comments and questions!

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stevekemp 4193 days ago
Good answers, thanks.

The obvious omission was the lack of reply about IPv6 support. Do your guests get IPv6 access by default, or can it be added if not?

PS. You might want to update your SSL configuration to avoid the POODLE-attack, and add perfect forward secrecy too.

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philgourley 4192 days ago
Steve - Thanks for bringing the SSL configuration improvements to our attention. While we aren't open about offering bug bounties. If you could send me an email to team@mediapig.co.uk we'll arrange something for you as thanks.

We're now operating under Grade A SSL on all our applicable domains which includes POODLE-attack protection and perfect forward secrecy.

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=mediapig.co.u...

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stevekemp 4192 days ago
I've dropped you a mail, thanks.
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philgourley 4193 days ago
Sorry Steve, I missed out the detail on this. At the minute we have not implemented IPv6. All of our kit is IPv6 ready and we are looking to go ahead with this very soon! Thanks again!
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