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Turns out #Linode uses its own kernel for some (maybe all?) of its #linux cloud servers.
All I wanted was to enable SELinux, but they have it disabled by default.
Sure, I could read one of the many guides on how to reenable it on CentOS systems on their platform, but TBH I feel like that shouldn’t be *needed*.
Ahh well, it’s just for development purposes, I guess. 🤷♂️
@ScottMortimer that’s where I plan on hosting my new site.
But what security problems came up? Is this recent or from a few years back?
@zer0k
From a few years back. Also, Linode is lax about cleaning up their network. To this day there is still a large amount of compromised servers actively spamming and brute-forcing away.
@zer0k
This and security problems were the reason that I switched to Digital Ocean and never looked back.