From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 28 16:04:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F1CD16A417 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:04:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joao.barros@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F28B043D72 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:04:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joao.barros@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id t32so196897pyc for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:04:18 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=U5fQNMjEBQNtr5wTf8aCvycFhPMyhM8d7KxIyjuk/hYcmg61mqdtnGA8H0IIixze7jNeRawfIw+Sy7RiorC0tknReoVrgbDInmranD4LlraTaZny3heU+ISEQcrnvXYvq/SZ+Q+rDUK9mSeeQJNdYehVVyYltmo1G3vWY5RgCqk= Received: by 10.35.88.18 with SMTP id q18mr385266pyl; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:04:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.117.14 with HTTP; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:04:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <70e8236f0606280904h4764b0e4l188806c17c964242@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:04:18 +0100 From: "Joao Barros" To: "pobox@verysmall.org" In-Reply-To: <44A2951D.2090300@verysmall.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44A15FBA.90001@verysmall.org> <000401c69a67$8818e640$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <44A24B8B.1040904@verysmall.org> <4BDE3B3C-E05B-4D55-99DE-F1776C6938FA@pobox.com> <44A2951D.2090300@verysmall.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 24/7/365 commercial support wanted X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:04:19 -0000 On 6/28/06, pobox@verysmall.org wrote: > We do host there, and their FreeBSD support is great, that's true. > However, they do not want to promise it. I tried to convince them to say > that they will support it and that I can accept if given shift does not > have a FreeBSD capable person, but they are very careful to promise > things they can not keep. > > The perfect thing would have been if they offer the support. They have > been answering the phone within 2-3 seconds every time I called the last > several years. But may be it is too much for them to promise to support > everything. > At this level it's called a Service Level Agreement (SLA) not a promise... -- Joao Barros