From nobody Wed May 4 19:19:51 2022 X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 449591AC2606 for ; Wed, 4 May 2022 19:19:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johnl@iecc.com) Received: from gal.iecc.com (gal.iecc.com [IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:43:6f73:7461]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "gal.iecc.com", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4Ktmqf34Rxz3Jgj for ; Wed, 4 May 2022 19:19:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johnl@iecc.com) Received: (qmail 50249 invoked from network); 4 May 2022 19:19:52 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple; d=iecc.com; h=date:message-id:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:cleverness; s=c447.6272d1d8.k2205; bh=Cob59t6qTRDMX2yeJ3nMfiIhy8A/SnWM0azMdUjEJHI=; b=tZEpVAYTDEUw3PWm1VpooTFNuMkRUyWyQbRmlTS5wR7MKijCNoArD+OXV9N5QqM0mKE+qOpZrmUieJqGyv+ClAHIgeao8PrNikrHcdC5isXE5QA9kAOjUQmBGl1QeUMxilnXABDjotcyXq8h7FOn4OT1kLsmAFkc3sri+NvLsuORLZqcnztvUwpBxFb68XVDYT3XmL1lc77O6KC/fu2IATWwFM3sLpHS9n4QQ8BDaOaVDrPYwuo9yoYpFaKhF3wQxLuSSim4JGVxgCllKgPgOaNfypeUdP81v2bLJfKZYijQihH/rw7F5eKxvliAUle2YElKwTCoX69qk0g/27gUHQ== Received: from ary.qy ([IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126::78:696d:6170]) by imap.iecc.com ([IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126::78:696d:6170]) with ESMTPS (TLS1.3 ECDHE-RSA AES-256-GCM AEAD) via TCP6; 04 May 2022 19:19:52 -0000 Received: by ary.qy (Postfix, from userid 501) id B3C1C3F5F396; Wed, 4 May 2022 15:19:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: 4 May 2022 15:19:51 -0400 Message-Id: <20220504191951.B3C1C3F5F396@ary.qy> From: "John Levine" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: gobble.wa@gmail.com Subject: Re: DO no longer offering FreeBSD droplets? In-Reply-To: Organization: Taughannock Networks X-Headerized: yes Cleverness: minimal List-Id: User questions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4Ktmqf34Rxz3Jgj X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none ("invalid DKIM record") header.d=iecc.com header.s=c447.6272d1d8.k2205 header.b=tZEpVAYT; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=iecc.com; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of johnl@iecc.com designates 2001:470:1f07:1126:0:43:6f73:7461 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=johnl@iecc.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.70 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip6:2001:470:1f07:1126::/64]; TAGGED_RCPT(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; HAS_ORG_HEADER(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[iecc.com:~]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[iecc.com,none]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED(-0.40)[2001:470:1f07:1126:0:78:696d:6170:received,2001:470:1f07:1126:0:43:6f73:7461:from]; R_DKIM_PERMFAIL(0.00)[iecc.com:s=c447.6272d1d8.k2205]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-questions]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-1.000]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:6939, ipnet:2001:470::/32, country:US]; FREEMAIL_CC(0.00)[gmail.com]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N It appears that Waitman Gobble said: >I just received an email from Digital Ocean, apparently they are no >longer offering FreeBSD droplets. Generally they have provided good >customer service over the years but maybe there's a better option for >FreeBSD? I have 12 droplets on DO so it's a concern if they are going >to stop offering customer support. I'm not going to switch them to >Linux because they want me to. > >So what are people using for FreeBSD VPS? I've been happy with Tektonic, https://www.tektonic.net/ They've been reliable and are quite cheap. They currently still provide FreeBSD 12.0 but you can upgrade it the usual way with freebsd-update. R's, John