From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 28 06:22:16 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9219FF0B for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2013 06:22:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-x22f.google.com (mail-ig0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::22f]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 625911275 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2013 06:22:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ig0-f175.google.com with SMTP id j1so31496880iga.2 for ; Fri, 27 Dec 2013 22:22:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=tocL6LQWzk+T0onDeG6fWcxIIGJatOoumiLCkuwWVt8=; b=F8t9ThwMia4Hr8QahMWQZvT3AkaSMefEcEM+2vcvmN9nfiLpqJgqxq8s3gt9cHen8H zuQVpHbU1eNJr0BhSUDv8ez78bjDOI1dDRUIr69ELulYb1CDdLLAndSabWsRIY3Le/GV Yek59QCcAxii8gilwBp7ju1nKnk67qAiFTtlwbLo6e5Qd8hroko5HdalU8+B6Y3p4yTa 0HU+vy8mBNecXn7NlWefhSV1VvjCpQ+1TfFxqZSSdTreUGBz0vp9P492rlQfc98JgIUS 6TEQSzQ0qAnMWwTj5EtKyPvuLkcbLn6y6k2QFhaz2hDot9iDV2e4pQ44qrIj5KWLHlxo fdUA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.51.15.130 with SMTP id fo2mr44163632igd.28.1388211735852; Fri, 27 Dec 2013 22:22:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.42.89.136 with HTTP; Fri, 27 Dec 2013 22:22:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 22:22:15 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD for my personal website: collocation, cloud, etc. From: Chris Stankevitz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 06:22:16 -0000 On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Can you recommend a place/procedure by which I can easily (and > cheaply) get up and running with a "publicly accessible" FreeBSD > machine Thank you for the quick replies everyone. I guess by "cloud" I was half-wondering if I was going to get a response like this: "Go to amazon.com/cloud, click 'sign up with a freebsd 9.2 machine', provide a root password, and you are good to go! Lucky for you the cost is per CPU cycle and since nobody visits your site, it should cost you only $1/month. Bonus: you get a static IP!" Turns out, Cox Cable in Santa Barbara, CA will upgrade me to a static IP that allows incoming ports 80 and 25 for $100/month (double what I'm paying for my residential connection). Something like this looks good for me: http://arpnetworks.com/ Thanks again, Chris