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On Jun 28, 2006, at 5:27 AM, pobox@verysmall.org wrote:

> Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>> Companies that service exclusively Microsoft installations cannot  
>> even
>> manage
>> that.  For that kind of support you have to go to Sun or IBM and pay
>> the big bucks.
>> Ted
>
> You can get it from Rackspace if you run RedHat - and you do not  
> have to pay big bucks. Just they are committed to RedHat and we do  
> not feel like migrating away from FreeBSD.

It's true they seem to prefer RedHat, but I run FreeBSD on servers  
hosted at Rackspace. Their FreeBSD support, in my experience, is  
generally excellent, and their pricing is fair. Of course that is for  
servers hosted at one of their sites, which may not be what is wanted.


-Chuck