Re: free ipv6 KVM-based - cloudspin.me [was - Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only]

2014-12-22 Thread Donny Davis
penbsd.org Subject: Re: free ipv6 KVM-based - cloudspin.me [was - Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only] On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 06:08:04PM -0500, Jiri B wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 01:54:50AM +, Some Developer wrote: > > Vultr already support OpenBSD on their servers (you

Re: free ipv6 KVM-based - cloudspin.me [was - Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only]

2014-12-22 Thread Edgar Pettijohn III
On Dec 22, 2014, at 9:43 AM, Florian Obser wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 06:08:04PM -0500, Jiri B wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 01:54:50AM +, Some Developer wrote: >>> Vultr already support OpenBSD on their servers (you upload the >>> OpenBSD install ISO and install it yourself) and the

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-22 Thread Ezequiel Garzon
I should mention that RamNode offers OpenBSD -release without the need to upload any images: you can choose OpenBSD i386 or amd64 from the pre-loaded CD images for KVM servers. I have to run `cd /dev && ./MAKEDEV all` after installation, though [*], to avoid getting daily insecurity reports. (Thank

Re: free ipv6 KVM-based - cloudspin.me [was - Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only]

2014-12-22 Thread Florian Obser
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 06:08:04PM -0500, Jiri B wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 01:54:50AM +, Some Developer wrote: > > Vultr already support OpenBSD on their servers (you upload the > > OpenBSD install ISO and install it yourself) and their servers cost > > the same as Digital Ocean. > > >

free ipv6 KVM-based - cloudspin.me [was - Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only]

2014-12-21 Thread Jiri B
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 01:54:50AM +, Some Developer wrote: > Vultr already support OpenBSD on their servers (you upload the > OpenBSD install ISO and install it yourself) and their servers cost > the same as Digital Ocean. > > Performance is good. They support IPv6 and they have more location

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-20 Thread Some Developer
On 16/12/14 15:10, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: Hi, It seems that DigitalOcean's BSD debut is going to be FreeBSD only. We, in the OpenBSD community, are being asked to open up a separate UserVoice vote for OpenBSD -- despite the fact that we've worked so hard to promote the existing one. So

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-19 Thread Gene
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Mihai Popescu wrote: > Using any OS on top of any virtual machine is like scratching your > left year with your right leg as human. What is the noble purpose of > doing that? > Gee whiz. How incredibly insightful.

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-19 Thread Mihai Popescu
Using any OS on top of any virtual machine is like scratching your left year with your right leg as human. What is the noble purpose of doing that?

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-18 Thread worik
On 19/12/14 08:21, Adam Thompson wrote: > The last time I filed a bugreport on OpenBSD in a virtualized > environment, I got flamed for not running it on real hardware. > Haven't bothered since. Ummm... Harden up. Flames are common around here. But I feel your pain. I use VPS to run OpenBSD i

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-18 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014, andrew fabbro wrote: > Rather than discuss provider by provider, when looking for an OpenBSD VPS, > look for KVM. OpenBSD runs on virtually any KVM provider and there are > many, at both the low $3-4/month end and at the high end. I've run OpenBSD > on KVM for several years

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-18 Thread Mike Larkin
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 01:21:47PM -0600, Adam Thompson wrote: > On 14-12-18 12:57 PM, Mike Larkin wrote: > >On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:24:45PM -0600, Adam Thompson wrote: > >>On 14-12-18 12:06 PM, andrew fabbro wrote: > >>>In short - the list of VPS providers who can support OpenBSD is actually >

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-18 Thread Theo de Raadt
> Maybe it's worth to publish on openbsd.org a list of companies with > such an offer (OpenBSD based VPS)? Maybe it is worth publishing a list of laptops OpenBSD works on? Or, maybe a list of ethernet cards. Is this purpose's project to maintain lists, or to try to make the code better as best as

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-18 Thread Adam Thompson
On 14-12-18 12:57 PM, Mike Larkin wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:24:45PM -0600, Adam Thompson wrote: On 14-12-18 12:06 PM, andrew fabbro wrote: In short - the list of VPS providers who can support OpenBSD is actually very big. I have to take issue with that statement... The list of VPS pro

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-18 Thread andrew fabbro
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Mike Larkin wrote: > > And your bug report for this is ... where? I thought about filing a bug report regarding a couple panics I've had on install (that went away with ACPI disabled in the provider's KVM control panel), but when I started to think about actuall

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-18 Thread Brad Smith
On 12/18/14 13:57, Mike Larkin wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:24:45PM -0600, Adam Thompson wrote: On 14-12-18 12:06 PM, andrew fabbro wrote: In short - the list of VPS providers who can support OpenBSD is actually very big. I have to take issue with that statement... The list of VPS provid

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-18 Thread Daniel Cegiełka
2014-12-18 19:37 GMT+01:00 andrew fabbro : > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Adam Thompson > wrote: >> >> The list of VPS providers where OpenBSD will run, more or less correctly, >> more or less all of the time, is actually very big. It will even run >> correctly all of the time on a fairly la

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-18 Thread Mike Larkin
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:24:45PM -0600, Adam Thompson wrote: > On 14-12-18 12:06 PM, andrew fabbro wrote: > >In short - the list of VPS providers who can support OpenBSD is actually > >very big. > I have to take issue with that statement... > > The list of VPS providers where OpenBSD will run, m

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-18 Thread andrew fabbro
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Adam Thompson wrote: > > The list of VPS providers where OpenBSD will run, more or less correctly, > more or less all of the time, is actually very big. It will even run > correctly all of the time on a fairly large list of providers. > > However, the list of VPS

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-18 Thread Adam Thompson
On 14-12-18 12:06 PM, andrew fabbro wrote: In short - the list of VPS providers who can support OpenBSD is actually very big. I have to take issue with that statement... The list of VPS providers where OpenBSD will run, more or less correctly, more or less all of the time, is actually very big

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-18 Thread andrew fabbro
Rather than discuss provider by provider, when looking for an OpenBSD VPS, look for KVM. OpenBSD runs on virtually any KVM provider and there are many, at both the low $3-4/month end and at the high end. I've run OpenBSD on KVM for several years at a variety of providers. OpenBSD obviously does

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-17 Thread opendaddy
Hi, On 16. desember 2014 at 11:14 PM, "Jan Stary" wrote: > >On Dec 16 17:58:37, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: >> I think the typical user will eventually realize that OpenBSD is >one of the most valuable assets he or she can use in the pursuit >of happiness and livelihood for ones family. Once

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-16 Thread Bryan Irvine
FWIW I have an OpenBSD 'box' with rootbsd.net. Never a single issue ever. On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 7:10 AM, wrote: > > Hi, > > It seems that DigitalOcean's BSD debut is going to be FreeBSD only. We, in > the OpenBSD community, are being asked to open up a separate UserVoice vote > for OpenBSD -- d

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-16 Thread worik
On 17/12/14 05:25, jungle Boogie wrote: > I have not personally tested openBSD on https://www.vultr.com/ but I > have read (tweets, probably) that it will work. I am doing so, twice. Working well. You can use a custom ISO, they do not specifically enable OpenBSD. I have a digital Ocean instance

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-16 Thread Romain FABBRI
online.net is also a great cloud based server hosting service... -Message d'origine- De : owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] De la part de Gene Envoyé : mardi 16 décembre 2014 19:19 À : Richard E. Thornton Cc : misc Objet : Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is Fr

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-16 Thread Thomas Schmidt
On 12/16/2014 06:18 PM, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: There's never been anyone as cheap, as well-designed and as quickly growing as DigitalOcean. Wanna bet? http://xkcd.com/1102

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-16 Thread Gene
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Richard E. Thornton < thornton.rich...@gmail.com> wrote: > So, its a cloud based server farm? What's the point for the typical user? Inexpensive VPS hosting with fast storage. I have one of their small instances (1 vCPU, 512 MB RAM, 20 GB storage) I'm paying $5

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-16 Thread Josh Grosse
On 2014-12-16 12:58, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: ...Once that time comes, he or she will most definitely be looking for something like DigitalOcean. Lest we forget ... this mailing list recently had a thread on security implications for data-in=-motion on virtual machines of third party prov

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-16 Thread opendaddy
On 16. desember 2014 at 5:46 PM, "Richard E. Thornton" wrote: > >So, its a cloud based server farm? What's the point for the >typical user? I think the typical user will eventually realize that OpenBSD is one of the most valuable assets he or she can use in the pursuit of happiness and livel

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-16 Thread Richard E. Thornton
So, its a cloud based server farm? What's the point for the typical user? On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > On 16. desember 2014 at 4:17 PM, "Lars" wrote: > > > >Says who? Now it's digital ocean - next month it will be somebody > >else. > > > >I seem to fall out of

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-16 Thread Benjamin Scher Purcell
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 05:20:27PM +, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > On 16. desember 2014 at 4:20 PM, "jungle Boogie" wrote: > > > >I have not personally tested openBSD on https://www.vultr.com/ but > >I have read (tweets, probably) that it will work. > > I'm not so sure about Vultr.

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-16 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 05:21:16PM +, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > On 16. desember 2014 at 4:44 PM, "Lars" wrote: > > > >There are quite a few of them. https://www.transip.eu/vps/ > >officially support OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Also completely SSD enabled. It > >seems > >to be just

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-16 Thread Jorge Castillo
Thanks for sharing this. This is awesome, best news in all day. I was using Debian but when this is ready, I will use FreeBSD. If you're a student I invite you to join ( https://education.github.com/pack ), you get $100 in DO credit. On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:10 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > It seems tha

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-16 Thread opendaddy
Hi, On 16. desember 2014 at 4:44 PM, "Lars" wrote: > >There are quite a few of them. https://www.transip.eu/vps/ >officially support OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Also completely SSD enabled. It seems >to be just hype I quit using them after they refused to enable virtio for OpenBSD, despite havin

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-16 Thread opendaddy
Hi, On 16. desember 2014 at 4:20 PM, "jungle Boogie" wrote: > >I have not personally tested openBSD on https://www.vultr.com/ but >I have read (tweets, probably) that it will work. I'm not so sure about Vultr. Icelandic Greenqloud (https://www.greenqloud.com/) are nice though. O.D.

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-16 Thread opendaddy
Hi, On 16. desember 2014 at 4:17 PM, "Lars" wrote: > >Says who? Now it's digital ocean - next month it will be somebody >else. > >I seem to fall out of the target group for this. As I don't share your >obvious enthusiasm and just don't care - so many rock stars rise >and fall. There's nev

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-16 Thread Lars
On 16.12.2014 17:25, jungle Boogie wrote: I have not personally tested openBSD on https://www.vultr.com/ but I have read (tweets, probably) that it will work. There are quite a few of them. https://www.transip.eu/vps/ officially support OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Also completely SSD enabled. It se

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-16 Thread jungle Boogie
Hi OD, On 16 December 2014 at 07:10, wrote: > Hi, > > It seems that DigitalOcean's BSD debut is going to be FreeBSD only. We, in > the OpenBSD community, are being asked to open up a separate UserVoice vote > for OpenBSD -- despite the fact that we've worked so hard to promote the > existing o

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-16 Thread Lars
On 16.12.2014 16:52, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: What is digital ocean? They're touted as the new rock stars of the hosting industry. Says who? Now it's digital ocean - next month it will be somebody else. Cheap SSD-enabled cloud hosting for your apps. You do have apps don't you? I seem

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-16 Thread opendaddy
>What is digital ocean? They're touted as the new rock stars of the hosting industry. Cheap SSD-enabled cloud hosting for your apps. You do have apps don't you? O.D. On 16. desember 2014 at 3:43 PM, "Richard E. Thornton" wrote: > >What is digital ocean? > > >On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, openda...@hus

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-16 Thread Richard E. Thornton
What is digital ocean? On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > It seems that DigitalOcean's BSD debut is going to be FreeBSD only. We, in > the OpenBSD community, are being asked to open up a separate UserVoice vote > for OpenBSD -- despite the fact that we've worked so h

Re: DigitalOcean's BSD debut is FreeBSD only

2014-12-16 Thread John Long
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 03:10:00PM +, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: Plonk.