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About ~vern's SSH service

SSH stands for Secure SHell, and it allows you to connect remotely to other computers over a network.

~vern offers SSH as a service for free to members, and the machine that you connect to is pubnix specifically. The machine itself is a virtual machine off of tilserv with 4 virtual CPU cores, 8 GBs of memory and 512GB of storage.

~vern's SSH service also allows you to host websites, which you can do with this guide here, you can also install and run software with the installed Nix package manager

If you haven't created a ~vern account, which is required to connect to this SSH server, then follow this guide. If you don't know how to connect to the SSH server, use this guide.