From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 2 18:53:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9097F16A412; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 18:53:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: from thebighonker.lerctr.org (thebighonker.lerctr.org [192.147.25.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8E3243D5E; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 18:52:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=lerami; d=lerctr.org; h=Received:From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Mailer:In-Reply-To:Thread-Index:X-MimeOLE:X-Spam-Score:X-LERCTR-Spam-Score:X-Spam-Report:X-LERCTR-Spam-Report:DomainKey-Status; b=sGWOb8h3e5lP56b7mBhkck2oXEefNBiiJcJOE/sL9sfF+z4hNd0iSKs/3jqg60NkA9d+x1mltT79MOuqQtU76xD2T609ivWEmrlyAD69AOM9Htxh5bNgKfJsQwKea4Tk+gA3xUFWRrCN0q8unbVamPb+j3v/iyLmkTdhM3vGLwg=; Received: from [66.179.40.122] (port=31644 helo=SURGLROSENMAN) by thebighonker.lerctr.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1GUStj-000F7X-Jt; Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:52:17 -0500 From: "Larry Rosenman" To: "'Colin Percival'" , "'Eduardo Meyer'" Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 13:52:05 -0500 Message-ID: <007001c6e653$e0f38e90$0202fea9@SURGIENT.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <45215BA2.6040703@freebsd.org> Thread-Index: AcbmU3xgcbQS2cRmQkG2rJe6XmUcXgAADqWw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-LERCTR-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8 BAYES_00=-2.599 X-LERCTR-Spam-Report: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8 BAYES_00=-2.599 DomainKey-Status: no signature Cc: stable@freebsd.org, advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: RE: EV1 Servers makes me sick X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:53:00 -0000 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 take." > > 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... > I know I was able to request (from ThePlanet, which merged with EV1) a FreeBSD-6.1 system, and they didn't give me the "unsupported" line. (this was within the last month for one of my clients). LER -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 512-248-2683 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 430 Valona Loop, Round Rock, TX 78681-3893