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On 2012-11-26, at 2:18 AM, Arthur Chance <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/25/12 22:07, Michael Sierchio wrote: >> Top-posting for brevity. I use EC2. You can start with Colin >> Percival's HVM instances - I run a Xen kernel using a modified version >> of his original scheme - which is to have a 1GB Linux partition >> running grub to boot from a FreeBSD disk. I'm happy to share an AMI >> with you, but you should try Colin's stuff. >> >> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Jim Flowers <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I gave up maintaining my own hardware for providing cloud computing >>> services about 10 years ago and have been using several dedicated server >>> services with root-access FreeBSD since about 6.0. with good results. At >>> the time VPS looked like too many problems. > > FreeBSD is now officially supported by Amazon (but still supplied by Colin) > as well as Colin's "defenestrated" FreeBSD AMIs. > > http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/11/aws-marketplace-additional-operating-system-support.html > > https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00AA25MLK/ref=sp_mpg_product_title?ie=UTF8&sr=0-2 > > However, these are only on the new 3rd generation of EC2 instances, which are > heavy duty systems. For many uses micro instances are enough, but you still > have to pay the "Windows tax" on those. I don't know whether Colin is working > to change that, or if there are technical reasons why it's impossible. > > http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/ > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
