From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 17 08:49:29 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 05D4A16A4CE for ; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 08:49:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gen129.n001.c02.escapebox.net (gen129.n001.c02.escapebox.net [213.73.91.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90D3343D31 for ; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 08:49:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gemini@geminix.org) Message-ID: <40F8E814.4050203@geminix.org> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 10:49:24 +0200 From: Uwe Doering Organization: Private UNIX Site User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040629 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from gemini by geminix.org with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1Blkso-000LkY-00; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 10:49:27 +0200 Subject: Re: FreeBSD Hosting 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, 17 Jul 2004 08:49:29 -0000 Joseph Koenig wrote: > Hi, > > I'm sure this question comes up, but I am looking at switching hosting > companies and am considering going with a dedicated server or co-locating > some servers somewhere. Regardless of which way I go, I want to make sure > the hosting facility has technicians who have experience with FreeBSD, in > especially with jails. If I go with a co-location set-up, I'd like to find > somewhere that will manage security patches, OS updates, etc - whether it is > through the hosting facility or through a 3rd party consultant. We are a > small firm and do not have the time to effectively manage all aspects of the > system, yet we are more than capable of handling the day-to-day basics of > the system (installing software, supporting web, db, and e-mail, etc). I'd > appreciate any recommendations anyone has on hosting facilities / > consultants that would be able to effectively handle these issues for us. While I can't tell from your posting what exactly you would like to do with the server, going by your general requirements you may be interested in what we (EscapeBox) do. Please consider following the link in my signature. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers gemini@geminix.org | http://www.escapebox.net