NixOS and Stateless Deployment
I have yet to find a single VPS provider that offers explicit support for NixOS [1]. As much as I like the idea of NixOS, it's difficult to evaluate its utility when I cannot easily spin up a NixOS-powered VPS and kick the tires. There does not seem to be any support for NixOS on DigitalOcean [2], and the instructions I came across for Linode look daunting enough that I am unlikely to even try [3].[1]: https://nixos.org/wiki/Hosting_providers_%26_NixOs[2]: http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean...[3]: https://nixos.org/wiki/Install_NixOS_on_Linode