Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:02:19 -0400 From: Brodey Dover <doverosx@gmail.com> To: Garance A Drosehn <gad@freebsd.org> Cc: Tom Ierna <tom@shockergroup.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RootBSD? Message-ID: <g2j283c23cd1004121302v5962ffa0p2398354bc300deed@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <p06240800c7e522c2458c@128.113.24.47> References: <7BB44832-271A-457B-A088-93D3F7C3370B@shockergroup.com> <p06240800c7e522c2458c@128.113.24.47>
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I haven't any experience with rootbsd.net but my friend and I have dealt with ServerNorth based in Canada if you're interested. On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Garance A Drosehn <gad@freebsd.org> wrote: > At 9:04 AM -0400 4/6/10, Tom Ierna wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Anyone have any experience with RootBSD.net? >> >> I'm looking to move an office-hosted machine's services to the cloud, and >> they seem to be one of the only VPS companies centered around BSD support >> instead of Linux. > > I've been using them for a few years now. What I have with them is a system > which is meant to be used as a "hot backup" for a system which is here in my > office. So, the main things I wanted was (1) real freebsd systems, (2) > which were someplace far away from Troy NY. I wanted to be pretty sure that > any problem which took out my main system would NOT take out my "hot backup" > system! > > I've had absolutely no trouble with them. The few times that I've had to > contact them, they've been happy to provide whatever help I needed. On the > other hand, my main system has been working fine for almost three years now, > so this backup system that I have at rootbsd.net has not seen much activity. > I just rsync the main system to the backup system once a day, and then > every few months I upgrade the FreeBSD that I'm running on the system at > rootbsd.net. > > -- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosehn@rpi.edu > Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA > _______________________________________________ > 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" >
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