On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 06:55:16PM +0000, Ken M wrote: > 2. Is vultr a good place to host an openbsd box? If not interested in hearing > alternatives. >
I have been using baremetal servers. They are cheap (please don't go too cheap!) You do need to make sure that they will allow you to use a KVM and that it's not one of the old kind that required Java. You shouldn't let them install, since you will need to be able to do this regularly, plus you need access to the BIOS to turn off hyper-threading. Right now I'm using one with an Intel and I'm not happy about that, so I'm going to look elsewhere next month. Also, make sure that they don't have blacklisted IP's. Otherwise your time and money are wasted. But I like having exclusive control of my server, short of them physically accessing it during maintenance, which leaves me just needing to keep good backups elsewhere. If you do this, make sure everything works under OpenBSD first. But this isn't the way a lot of people want to do things, so go with whatever you're comfortable with. You might want to try a couple of different ways for one or two months. Not that much money and keep what you like best of the bunch. :-} Chris Bennett
