From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 25 21:29:27 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FA8BB22 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:29:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feenberg@nber.org) Received: from mail2.nber.org (mail2.nber.org [66.251.72.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF00D8FC12 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:29:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nber6 (nber6.nber.org [66.251.72.76]) by mail2.nber.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id qAPLT2on062629; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:29:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from feenberg@nber.org) Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:18:23 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Feenberg X-X-Sender: feenberg@nber6 To: Jim Flowers Subject: Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Anti-Virus: Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Linux Mail Server 5.6.39/RELEASE, bases: 20121125 #8520692, check: 20121125 clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:29:27 -0000 On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Jim Flowers wrote: > I gave up maintaining my own hardware for providing cloud computing > services about 10 years ago and have been using several dedicated server > services with root-access FreeBSD since about 6.0. with good results. At > the time VPS looked like too many problems. > > Now, however, it looks like there are quite a number of mature VPS hosting > services that are FreeBSD-centric at very attractive prices. Most offer KVM > or VPS-instance access to allow rebooting and reinstallation. > > Can anyone comment on the providers and the technology in the context of > having used them specifically for FreeBSD in the last few years? Good? > Bad? Indifferent? > We have had good experience with pair.com and rootbsd.com. Both were used for websites. We never had any problems with either, so I can't report on their problem solving skills, but customer service from both was good for the handful of routine questions we had. dan feenberg > Fairly modest duty - spam filtering, mailboxes, websites, storage, reverse > proxy and the like. > > Oh yeah, some development. > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >