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Posted by achairapart 1 day ago

Exe.dev(exe.dev)

https://blog.exe.dev/meet-exe.dev

https://exe.dev/docs/how-exedev-works

https://exe.dev/docs/pricing

395 points | 242 commentspage 6

j0lol 23 hours ago|

Other than a quick boot, what separates this from going on a VPS provider and spinning up servers?

DoctorOW 22 hours ago|

Simpler and easier seems to be the answer. How much does it cost to spread 8gbs RAM across some VMs? Most providers require additional of how many VMs over how many hours, what the specs kf each are specifically, etc. Then once you have it you're setting up an SSH key or shared password depending on use and they make the authentication simpler as well. Maybe wouldn't be great for a huge business but it's you just wanted the ability to play with an isolated server, it might be worth it.

_init_wasfine 5 hours ago||

Looks like a trap at first. Who succesfully connecter ?

mrs6969 11 hours ago||

just to be clear, this is total resources for all the vm right ?

like you give 2 cpu. 8gb memory for 20vms. Which I believe you wont be able to use 20 of them at the same time if they share 2 cpu only

pacificat0r 8 hours ago||

Who puts pricing under docs/ ?

bhavaniravi 22 hours ago||

Are there any fundamental differences between E2B and this?

crawshaw 22 hours ago|

Hello, exe.dev person here.

I have not used E2B (though I really like their web site), though it looks like there are quite a few differences. Our disks are persistent (without manual snapshotting), we have a TLS proxy by default with built-in auth and link sharing.

It also looks like they have many features we do not have (yet).

I believe the target use is also quite different. You can use exe.dev VMs for running your agent. But you can also use it for hosting your site. E.g. blog.exe.dev is an exe.dev VM.

bhavaniravi 20 hours ago||

Thanks for the response. In the "How exe works" page, it's mentioned that exe runs on bare metal with Kata containers, how is it different from firecracker? Were there any advantages?

crawshaw 17 hours ago||

The mention of Kata is out of date, we are fixing that, thanks! Our underlying VMM is very similar to firecracker (same upstream source). We believe our advantages are in how we run it. Several blog posts are in the works about technical details!

finalhacker 12 hours ago||

I like it. Great cli design. its so cool!

Alifatisk 23 hours ago||

> exe.dev is a subscription service that gives you virtual machines, with persistent disks

aleksandrm 22 hours ago||

Thanks, I couldn't figure out what the hell was wrong. The front page is just... not helpful. Given the amount of pushbash how everyone feels about this, it should be removed from HN frontpage!

satiric 23 hours ago||

Thanks. I feel like I expect home pages to contain at least a modicum of information. And three seconds spent thinking about accessibility would have told them that light gray links on a white background are a terrible idea...

crawshaw 23 hours ago||

Apologies for the vagueness of the home page, we were not expecting to be here today. There is a little more info in our first blog post https://blog.exe.dev/meet-exe.dev and docs, but far needs to be written.

(We have also built some interesting tech behind this that we are excited to write up, I have a doc two pages long of blog posts we want to write.)

mcny 22 hours ago||

The blog doesn't work on Firefox on Android for me

https://blog.exe.dev/meet-exe.dev

Secure Connection Failed

    The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
    Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

crawshaw 22 hours ago|||

I just tried this out in Firefox on macOS and there are no issues, so this might have something to do with our LetsEncrypt wildcard cert and the CA roots installed on Android. Could you tell me what version of Android you are using?

mcny 13 hours ago||

Moto g stylus 2025 - Android 15 - metro by T-Mobile stock os

Firefox nightly

148.01a

I'll check for updates

Edit: still broken

148.0a1 (Build #2016134322), 757b8230f44e4152aeb7b9031ff95219471ab993 GV: 148.0a1-20251226204324 AS: 148.20251224050247 OS: Android 15

Edit: also same on OnePlus Nord N30

147.0b7 (Build #2016133535), 455e50920c4926534376b719df4cf1ed714bc61d GV: 147.0-20251222164020 AS: 147.0 OS: Android 14

integralid 12 hours ago||

Works fine to me too. Looks like you're the only person that reports that. Are you sure this is not something on your end?

What TLS error do you get? Untrusted CA?

esseph 19 hours ago|||

Works fine on Firefox/Android here

mcny 9 hours ago||

https://blog.exe.dev/

I am not sure. I even tried Google Chrome

This site can’t provide a secure connection blog.exe.dev sent an invalid response. ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR

https://i.imgur.com/HOwb7g3.jpeg

also tried mozilla firefox on desktop

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to blog.exe.dev. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.

Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG

    The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
    Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

ssl labs says everything is fine

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=blog.exe.dev

bstsb 6 hours ago||

try another network. i often get SSL errors due to false positives in my internet provider's "virus protection"

GalaxyNova 16 hours ago||

Is there a reason for the lack of IPv6 support?

crawshaw 16 hours ago|

[exe.dev co-founder here] It is planned! The reason we have not got to it yet is it needs to be very different than IPv4 support. We have spent a lot of time on machinery to allow `ssh yourmachine.exe.xyz` work without having to allocate you an IPv4 address. The mechanisms for IPv6 can and should be different, but they will also interact with how assigning public static IPv4 addresses will work in the future.

We do not want to end up in the state AWS is in, where any production work requires navigating the differences between how AWS manage v4 and v6. And that means rolling out v6 is going to be a lot of work for us. It will get done.

I added a public tracking bug here: https://github.com/boldsoftware/exe.dev/issues/16

asasidh 8 hours ago||

It's a VM hosting service folks.

fragmede 17 hours ago|

If we're just throwing out ssh targets, there's also funky.nondeterministic.computer

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