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So it's AWS Fargate with a different name? That's cool for cloud hosted stuff. But if you're on prem, or manage your own VPS' then you need SSH access.

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I bought last year mobo with IPMI so in theory I could have forgot about SSH and just inspect startup logs if it would fail to start.

Though I must say I am not brave enough and my family uses it so I prefer to have jest one broken service instead of enire machine.

But it is possible.

Except you've replaced something good with something worse. IPMI really isn't an improvement over having SSH to the system. It definitely has more security holes.

Can you SSH into broken grub? Can you change BIOS settings? Also giving access like that outside your home network is not a good idea. So security issues does not matter that much.

I didn't say not to use IPMI, I said it's not a security improvement over SSH. For exactly the reason you point out, giving access outside your home. Nothing wrong with exposing SSH provided you take it seriously and know what you're doing. Nobody in their right mind would ever put IPMI on anything but a protected isolated network.

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