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About try.desync.com
try.desync.com gives you a web-based shell on a dynamically-allocated instance.
There are some differences from a normal instance, though. Specifically:
- The host is a VM.
- Network connections are limited in terms of concurrency.
- Network traffic is limited in aggregate throughput.
- The Basis image is a customized FreeBSD that includes some tools like curl and mtr.
- SSH host keys are pre-generated (and thus, shared) to reduce startup time.
- The broker's SSH keys are preloaded, rather than having to wait for desync-provision to run.
The session broker (Zuul) places some limits on number of concurrent sessions beyond the normal placement limits imposed by the API, mostly by client ASN and/or subnet. The idea is to prevent one person from hogging all the sessions, which might also indicate that some mischief is afoot.