Vmsrv

Philosophy

The Skullspace virtual machine service (vmsrv) is offered to members as a means to share the power of best-available hardware.

"Access to computers—and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works—should be unlimited and total."

As such, we support two styles of computing:

Interactive computing -- temporary bursts of high resource use (IO/CPU/memory) by a single user for the purpose of "figuring stuff out", "getting stuff done", "hacking", etc. with the ethic of ensuring resources are freed when not in use. "Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative!"
General service computing -- always up and running services with reasonable IO, CPU, and memory use that doesn't impair the above. (services with intense all the time resource requirements should be operated on dedicated servers)