From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 2 20:11:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 3FC4E16A407 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 20:11:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amason@rackspace.com) Received: from mx.sat.rackspace.com (mx.sat.rackspace.com [64.39.1.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23E3043D5C for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 20:11:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from amason@rackspace.com) Received: from mail.rackspace.com (mail.rackspace.com [64.39.2.181]) by mx.sat.rackspace.com (8.13.6.20060614/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k92KBgBA007262 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 15:11:42 -0500 (envelope-from amason@rackspace.com) Received: from mizar.rackspace.com (office105-56.sat4.rackspace.com [10.6.105.56]) by mail.rackspace.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k92KBWS0014922 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 15:11:32 -0500 From: Art Mason Organization: Rackspace Managed Hosting To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 15:14:25 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <007001c6e653$e0f38e90$0202fea9@SURGIENT.COM> In-Reply-To: <007001c6e653$e0f38e90$0202fea9@SURGIENT.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610021514.25844.amason@rackspace.com> 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 20:11:49 -0000 On Monday 02 October 2006 13:52, Larry Rosenman wrote: > 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 Hmmm, hope I'm not offending any members of the list by stating this, but we are currently offering 6.1-RELEASE as a customer-requested OS kick option. In addition, I can happily confirm through personal experience that PHP 4 and 5 run quite happily on it. Now building it from source RPM on a RedHat Enterprise Linux platform is another thing, but I digress... Fear the daemon! -- Art Mason amason@rackspace.com Intensive Network Security Rackspace Managed Hosting (800) 961-4454 ext. 4290