Maybe this should be a FAQ. You can run OpenBSD on nearly any KVM VPS provider. I have some favorites, but it isn't right for me to shill here. You could visit LowEndTalk for discussion of cheap VPSes, or WebHostingTalk for more structured discussion of expensive ones. Or email me and I'll share my opinions and bread crumbs.
I pay $3-5 per month to run OpenBSD on 512MB VPSes, and I also have some $15/year 128MB VPSes that run just fine for DNS, mail, etc. You can pay more to get much bigger specs of course. You need to read the vio(4) man page if you're going to run with virtio drivers (which you will if you use KVM). As for the "cloud" providers: - EC2, Azure: forget it. - Vultr: works well, officially supported - DigitalOcean: it's an "install through FreeBSD" hack. That said, once setup, I've had no issues. Note that snapshots may not work (per the tutorial link above). And of course there are cheap dedicated offers: OVH, SoYouStart, Kimsufi, online.net, hertzner, etc. If you can get the ISO presented to the hardware, of course OpenBSD works there. It's worth pointing out that: - if you just need a virtualized crash place to test OpenBSD, you can use virtualbox, etc. to do this on your PC/laptop for free - there are specialized OpenBSD hosters, so maybe giving them some love is appropriate - there are specialized OpenBSD shell account providers (devi.os) if that's all you need - some day in the bright shining future when vmm is done, you may be able to buy an OpenBSD guest VM on an OpenBSD host...and then these piddling Amazon and Microsoft Azure empires will fall as Puffy storms the net. To the cloud! -- andrew fabbro and...@fabbro.org
