From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 26 16:26:24 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 2B1FC70B for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:26:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D949C8FC16 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:26:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.151.189]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E22371E1A73C; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:26:22 -0400 (AST) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.151.189]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 62479-07; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:26:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.52] (S01060026f3ee6b97.gv.shawcable.net [96.54.43.95]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 196D91E1A73B; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:26:21 -0400 (AST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.2 \(1499\)) Subject: Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting From: Hub- FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <50B341F4.4090500@qeng-ho.org> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:26:20 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <50B341F4.4090500@qeng-ho.org> To: Arthur Chance X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1499) Cc: Jim Flowers , 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: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:26:24 -0000 For those looking for non-US based servers, we (http://hub.org) have = been proudly offering FreeBSD since '95 =85 On 2012-11-26, at 2:18 AM, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 11/25/12 22:07, Michael Sierchio wrote: >> 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. >>=20 >> 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. >=20 > FreeBSD is now officially supported by Amazon (but still supplied by = Colin) as well as Colin's "defenestrated" FreeBSD AMIs. >=20 > = http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/11/aws-marketplace-additional-operating-sy= stem-support.html >=20 > = https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00AA25MLK/ref=3Dsp_mpg_product_titl= e?ie=3DUTF8&sr=3D0-2 >=20 > However, these are only on the new 3rd generation of EC2 instances, = which are heavy duty systems. For many uses micro instances are enough, = but you still have to pay the "Windows tax" on those. I don't know = whether Colin is working to change that, or if there are technical = reasons why it's impossible. >=20 > http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/ > _______________________________________________ > 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"