I finally realized that you can install unsupported operating systems in Linode. I'm thinking of switching s.net over to OpenBSD. There's literally zero chance of systemd infecting *BSD, after all. I'm also considering Devuan as well. It's basically Debian (which I'm very familiar with) without systemd.
The recent security vulnerability with systemd is just the icing on the cake. The number of times I've had to reboot freyr because systemd ate its own head is a bit silly, not even mentioning the number of times I've had to do a hard reboot because literally nothing on the box would work. And considering that's happened across two separate distros, well...
Meanwhile, my game server--which is under significantly more load, given that it runs both Factorio and Minecraft--runs Gentoo and...well, take a look:
spectere@loki ~ $ uptime
20:18:45 up 388 days, 22:22, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.12, 0.10
freyr, on the other hand...
spectere@freyr:~$ uptime
16:18:24 up 8 days, 20:56, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
I did updates 8 days ago on freyr and it caused systemd to have a manic freakout, preventing me from starting and stopping services, checking logs, or doing...well, much of anything. Shutdown and reboot didn't work. Had to do a hard shutdown, because why not. That's good to do, right?
So yeah, I finally need to pull the plug on systemd forever. No more second chances. I hate breaking out in a cold sweat every time I update the server.