From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 25 22:07:28 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 268466B6 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 22:07:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kudzu@tenebras.com) Received: from mail-ee0-f54.google.com (mail-ee0-f54.google.com [74.125.83.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7C5F8FC0C for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 22:07:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ee0-f54.google.com with SMTP id c13so7389252eek.13 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:07:26 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=RevrlbfWtuEPjIcH3/qPjcEeZ5g1gp98tPSLx6eE3jk=; b=gZbubAPhrayfBsMAJ3I+vctWu4iPaC8MonL/R4pQrDS9jP91dowz0jMaNKQq5q6HAu 3NDhTYftsp76cI0bg+Ew8O/IVF6/3nlwh/3/ygkaq++vINFQQ+/UcXgkiqlnfKBvHYJ6 meQS8yawBzqYR9ParVbxIYAc5N/1zJStg7YN257yVfbCcfI52v8ipb58mG6EVy4n0Nmm pA3ulSXQI4FdQeBEVl6JG1enFAOsK6E0/SBMtMVAzmflKzHG4G5gM5YbkXecuaBNAWsw 3/qhSK1sGelwJSMVjWddXWaVV4yLWj7FpSeO1xhK1dW/aG/fy4ov/YFv8DXtWM+CxsgU D+iA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.14.205.65 with SMTP id i41mr38230553eeo.2.1353881246504; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:07:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.71.194 with HTTP; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:07:26 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:07:26 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting From: Michael Sierchio To: Jim Flowers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQncjAX69Vu7UDzjp8zEn/gPVNvyb1LnEnRQMpe1jI489IH8AY6bAlvmOxWhuhRGS1OShbZE 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 22:07:28 -0000 Top-posting for brevity. I use EC2. You can start with Colin Percival's HVM instances - I run a Xen kernel using a modified version of his original scheme - which is to have a 1GB Linux partition running grub to boot from a FreeBSD disk. I'm happy to share an AMI with you, but you should try Colin's stuff. On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 1:08 PM, 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.