

Not OP but this is how I learned it and how it’s presented in the help file.
$ help while
while: while COMMANDS; do COMMANDS-2; done
$ help if
if: if COMMANDS; then COMMANDS; [ elif COMMANDS; then COMMANDS; ]... [ else COMMANDS; ] fi
Not OP but this is how I learned it and how it’s presented in the help file.
$ help while
while: while COMMANDS; do COMMANDS-2; done
$ help if
if: if COMMANDS; then COMMANDS; [ elif COMMANDS; then COMMANDS; ]... [ else COMMANDS; ] fi
Best news I’ve heard all day.
exFAT is an extension of the FAT32 filesystem that allows for larger drive sizes and file sizes and is mostly used on SD cards. Despite the name similarities it has nothing to do with the ext filesystem, and won’t support the same features as it (such as symlinks).
Here’s a snapshot of the memory of a running live cd of Ubuntu. I ran a script to load 0123456789abcdef over and over and it’s clearly readable. Nothing special is required for this, as the Hypervisor has access to anything that the VM does. If the VM loads the encryption key for your disk into memory it will be available to the provider.
Dunno what rock you were hiding under but this is absolutely possible in a hosted environment. There’s even ESXi documentation on how to do it. Taking a snapshot can be detected, but can’t be prevented. These memory dumps can include encryption keys, private keys (such as SSL certificates) and other sensitive data.
Unless you can physically touch the drive with your data on it, I would not store any sensitive data on it, encrypted or not.
This would depend on whether the limit is defined as ingress or egress or both. For example AWS has free ingress traffic from the internet but there is a cost for egress traffic to the internet.
A better solution would be to find a unmetered service, which means that you have a fixed transfer speed (e.g. 500 Mbit) but have unlimited bandwidth. OVH offers this in their VPS products.