Hi, I signed up for a $5 VPS at Digital Ocean last night.  Today I am ssh'ing in and it take about 10 seconds for the response asking me for my passwd.  I'm using ssh from the command line on my linux workstation. I work on several other hardware servers and the respons is almost instantanious.  Is the slow response an indication the vps is going to be slow?  Or maybe it is something I am doing - I'm using the VPS' IP instead of the hostname. Thanks for your feedback!! Keith ------------------------ Keith Smith