From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 10 23:07:05 2004 Return-Path: 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 4F0AC16A4CE for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 23:07:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E83643D2F for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 23:07:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rperry4@earthlink.net) Received: from dialup-4.250.48.24.dial1.weehawken1.level3.net ([4.250.48.24]) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1BjQvw-0004Hm-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 16:07:04 -0700 Message-ID: <40F07719.9060702@earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:09:13 -0400 From: Bob Perry User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: How Critical Is It To Use an ISP Running FreeBSD or BSD/OS? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 23:07:05 -0000 Hello, I remember reading in The Complete FreeBSD, by Greg Lehey, that you'll be better off with an ISP that runs FreeBSD or BSD/OS. Can anyone provide a scenario(s) where this would be most apparent? I don't know what OS my ISP uses but I do know that they only support Windows and Mac platforms. I've run OS/2 and FreeBSD using their email services and never really needed technical support. Now, I'm considering a new ISP primarily due to cost. Also, considering obtaining my own domain name and exploring web hosting. I assume that recommending an ISP is inappropriate but if you know of any forums that have discussed ISPs for FreeBSD, feel free to recommend them. Thank you. -- I've learned that whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed. FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p2 #0