Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 15:14:25 -0500 From: Art Mason <amason@rackspace.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EV1 Servers makes me sick Message-ID: <200610021514.25844.amason@rackspace.com> In-Reply-To: <007001c6e653$e0f38e90$0202fea9@SURGIENT.COM> References: <007001c6e653$e0f38e90$0202fea9@SURGIENT.COM>
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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
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