Re: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-04 Thread Colin Percival
Randi Harper wrote: > On 10/3/06, Daniel Gerzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> also layeredtech.com is pretty good. > > Props to layeredtech. In the 20 months for which layeredtech has been providing free hosting for FreeBSD Update, one of the two Portsnap mirrors, and my personal website, I haven'

Re[2]: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-04 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Ivan, Wednesday, October 4, 2006, 9:20:21 PM, you wrote: > Daniel Gerzo wrote: >> Hello Nik, >> >> Tuesday, October 3, 2006, 4:31:11 PM, you wrote: >> >>> Alexandre Vieira wrote: I was also told that http://www.serverpronto.com/ is freebsd friendly and extremely cheap. >> >>> S

Re: Re[2]: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-04 Thread Randi Harper
On 10/3/06, Daniel Gerzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Nik, Tuesday, October 3, 2006, 4:31:11 PM, you wrote: > Alexandre Vieira wrote: >> I was also told that http://www.serverpronto.com/ is freebsd friendly and >> extremely cheap. > Since this seems to have become a recommendation thread,

Re: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-04 Thread Ivan Voras
Daniel Gerzo wrote: > Hello Nik, > > Tuesday, October 3, 2006, 4:31:11 PM, you wrote: > >> Alexandre Vieira wrote: >>> I was also told that http://www.serverpronto.com/ is freebsd friendly and >>> extremely cheap. > >> Since this seems to have become a recommendation thread, I'm a happy >> cust

Re: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-03 Thread telmnstr
I manage a rather large instalation for a site that, so far, is all FreeBSD based. Becouse of certain laking features however I have been looking at various Linux versions. I have to say that to anyone who dis's the FreeBSD install script, run off and install Gentoo. As for the other distro 's,

Re[2]: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-03 Thread telmnstr
also layeredtech.com is pretty good. Also Voxel in NYC supports BSD ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-03 Thread Nicole
On 03-Oct-06 My Homeland Security "observers" reported that [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >> Easy yes. Nice, and good? Define Nice, or Good. On RH in particular, >> you're stuck with either not getting fixes you want or need, or getting >> potentially unstable ones. > > Okay, maybe I went to far

Re[2]: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-03 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Nik, Tuesday, October 3, 2006, 4:31:11 PM, you wrote: > Alexandre Vieira wrote: >> I was also told that http://www.serverpronto.com/ is freebsd friendly and >> extremely cheap. > Since this seems to have become a recommendation thread, I'm a happy > customer of http://www.johncompanies.co

Re: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-03 Thread telmnstr
Easy yes. Nice, and good? Define Nice, or Good. On RH in particular, you're stuck with either not getting fixes you want or need, or getting potentially unstable ones. Okay, maybe I went to far with nice. But these are the things that make it in the enterprise. FreeBSD, and Linux both ha

Re: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-03 Thread Nik Clayton
Alexandre Vieira wrote: I was also told that http://www.serverpronto.com/ is freebsd friendly and extremely cheap. Since this seems to have become a recommendation thread, I'm a happy customer of http://www.johncompanies.com/. They offer discounts to open source contributor's too. N __

Re: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-03 Thread Astrodog
On 10/2/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> EV1Servers has never been a major supporter of FreeBSD -- back when >> they were RackShack, it took a petition of several hundred people >> before they started offering FreeBSD at all. >> I wonder if they'll start offering more recent

Re: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-03 Thread Alexandre Vieira
On 10/3/06, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Scott I. Remick wrote: > Eduardo Meyer wrote: >> >> I have been pointed in private mail to http://www.fdcservers.net/ >> which seems to treat FreeBSD more seriously too, in case anyone else >> is/get disapointed by EV1's lack of pro

Re: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-03 Thread Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg
Scott I. Remick wrote: > Eduardo Meyer wrote: >> >> I have been pointed in private mail to http://www.fdcservers.net/ >> which seems to treat FreeBSD more seriously too, in case anyone else >> is/get disapointed by EV1's lack of professionalism regarding FreeBSD. > > FDC seems to have a pretty swe

RE: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-02 Thread Rudi Kramer
>The real issue is, the Linux distros like redhat have a nice, good, easy, >way to kick the machine on auto as far as major security patches. Something like freebsd-update (http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/) ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org ma

Re: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-02 Thread telmnstr
EV1Servers has never been a major supporter of FreeBSD -- back when they were RackShack, it took a petition of several hundred people before they started offering FreeBSD at all. I wonder if they'll start offering more recent FreeBSD releases next month after FreeBSD 5.4 becomes unsupported...

Re: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-02 Thread Scott I. Remick
Eduardo Meyer wrote: I have been pointed in private mail to http://www.fdcservers.net/ which seems to treat FreeBSD more seriously too, in case anyone else is/get disapointed by EV1's lack of professionalism regarding FreeBSD. FDC seems to have a pretty sweet price for a VPS (starting at $19/m

Re: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 03:21:33PM -0300, Eduardo Meyer wrote: > "if your server is re-imaged with 6.0 vs the 5.4 version currently > installed we will not be able to support this. We have found that the > versions after 5.4 are inherantly unstable. Please let us know what > course of action you wo

RE: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-02 Thread Don Witt
ED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: EV1 Servers makes me sick > > Colin Percival wrote: > > Eduardo Meyer wrote: > >> "if your server is re-imaged with 6.0 vs the 5.4 version currently > >> installed we will not be able to support this. We have > found tha

Re: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-02 Thread Eduardo Meyer
EV1Servers has never been a major supporter of FreeBSD -- back when they were RackShack, it took a petition of several hundred people before they started offering FreeBSD at all. I wonder if they'll start offering more recent FreeBSD releases next month after FreeBSD 5.4 becomes unsupported...

RE: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-02 Thread Larry Rosenman
Colin Percival wrote: > Eduardo Meyer wrote: >> "if your server is re-imaged with 6.0 vs the 5.4 version currently >> installed we will not be able to support this. We have found that the >> versions after 5.4 are inherantly unstable. Please let us know what >> course of action you would like to ta

Re: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-02 Thread Colin Percival
Eduardo Meyer wrote: > "if your server is re-imaged with 6.0 vs the 5.4 version currently > installed we will not be able to support this. We have found that the > versions after 5.4 are inherantly unstable. Please let us know what > course of action you would like to take." EV1Servers has never b

EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-02 Thread Eduardo Meyer
Things that makes me nuts. I have heard before about EV1 saying foolishes about FreeBSD, specially a big stupid stuff regarding PHP on FreeBSD, now it just happened to me. I asked to install the system with FreeBSD 6 instead of their default 5.4. And what I got as a response? "if your server is