Soooo, which distro to switch to next? Or are they all gonna go down this route eventually? Maybe I’ll try a *BSD for once.

Both Debian and RHEL-like distros are solid choices. Both are super stable. Debian tends to not always have the newest packages, so if you want that I’d steer away from Debian. Personally I use Rocky Linux for my servers. It’s based on RHEL, meaning each new major version benefits from Red Hat’s 10 years of software support. Debian (and derivates) have better community support I think, but RHEL has very solid documentation (which for the most part applies directly to Rocky, Alma etc.)

Here’s a great article outlining the differences between Alma and Rocky.

But for something simple like running a Go application, both should work just fine, so choose what you’re most comfortable with.

Rocky is available at Scaleway too.

No you’re not! :D

Have you tried screen? AFAIK it’s similar to tmux, but tmux has more bells and whistles, which it sounds like you want to avoid. I use it sometimes to start long running rsync sessions on a server and then periodically SSH in and check it. It does break scrolling though, but I don’t know if there’s some option to make it behave more like a normal terminal.

I disagree. In fact, I actually think that anything that can be said, has been said by someone, even if only one person.