Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-12-07 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: > We have had good experience with pair.com and rootbsd.com. Both were used > for websites. We never had any problems with either, so I can't report on > their problem solving skills, but customer service from both was good for > the handful

Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-27 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "George" == George Hartzell writes: George> I'll second that. I have a smaller and a larger VPS at ARP, they've George> been great. And I've been running 5 FreeBSD servers of various sizes there for something like two years (or has it been three?). All booting from ZFS as /. Fun. -- R

Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-26 Thread Shane Ambler
On 26/11/2012 20:48, Arthur Chance wrote: FreeBSD is now officially supported by Amazon (but still supplied by Colin) as well as Colin's "defenestrated" FreeBSD AMIs. I don't use them yet but while looking into cloud setups I found that rackspace have offered freebsd 9 images for us to build

Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-26 Thread Jeremy Johnston
Hello, We at SmartServ Hosting, http://www.smart-serv.net/, have been offering VPS containers supporting FreeBSD for over a year and previously ran all our services from FreeBSD on bare metal before moving into our virtualization environment where we continue to use FreeBSD for our core ser

Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-26 Thread George Hartzell
Robison, Dave writes: > On 11/25/2012 13:08, Jim Flowers wrote: > > > Can anyone comment on the providers and the technology in the context of > > having used them specifically for FreeBSD in the last few years? Good? > > Bad? Indifferent? > > > > I've been using ARP networks for a coup

Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-26 Thread Robison, Dave
On 11/25/2012 13:08, Jim Flowers wrote: > Can anyone comment on the providers and the technology in the context of > having used them specifically for FreeBSD in the last few years? Good? > Bad? Indifferent? > I've been using ARP networks for a couple of years now and I'm quite happy. http://w

Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-26 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 2:18 AM, Arthur Chance wrote: > 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

Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-26 Thread Hub- FreeBSD
For those looking for non-US based servers, we (http://hub.org) have been proudly offering FreeBSD since '95 … On 2012-11-26, at 2:18 AM, Arthur Chance 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 instan

Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-26 Thread Arthur Chance
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

Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-25 Thread Michael Sierchio
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 Col

Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-25 Thread Bruce Cran
On 25/11/2012 21:08, Jim Flowers wrote: Can anyone comment on the providers and the technology in the context of having used them specifically for FreeBSD in the last few years? Good? Bad? Indifferent? What part of the world are you in? In the US there's RootBSD; in Europe there are a few, in

Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-25 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Jim Flowers 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 proble

VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-25 Thread Jim Flowers
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. Now, however, it looks like there are qu