From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 21:59:32 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 536781065681; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:59:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from smtp5.server.rpi.edu (smtp5.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.225]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BBF78FC30; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:59:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp5.server.rpi.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m5JKkD5r012785; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:46:14 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <26ddd1750806181937y232d5b1dg5f84a66e81697b68@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080619003131.GF51002@dereel.lemis.com> <20080619032726.0603654b@epia-2.farid-hajji.net> <26ddd1750806181937y232d5b1dg5f84a66e81697b68@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:46:13 -0400 To: "Maxim Khitrov" From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam scanning disabled X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-Canit-Stats-ID: Bayes signature not available X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 128.113.2.225 Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD based web hosting? X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:59:32 -0000 At 10:37 PM -0400 6/18/08, Maxim Khitrov wrote: >On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:27 PM, cpghost wrote: >> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:31:31 +1000 >> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> >>> I'm looking for somebody to host some web sites for me. Ideally I'd >>> like a complete machine, but a jail would do too. I can find plenty >>> of Linux-based offerings, but the only one I can find with FreeBSD is >>> in Germany and requires me to be resident in Germany. Can anybody >>> point me to one that I, as an Australian resident, can use? >> >> Here's a list of FreeBSD-based hosters: >> http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/isp.html >> > >Is anyone here using RootBSD? I recently signed up for a Xen VPS setup at RootBSD. It seems to be working fine, at least for what I want out of it. I'm using it as a "hot-spare, off-site backup" for a service that I run, so what I'm doing is probably much less demanding than what most people would want from it. But so far I've been able to set things up the way I want, and it's worked fine. My biggest problem so far is that I haven't had enough spare time to work on it! I have no idea if they would take customers from outside the US, but they have been pretty responsive to questions I have sent to them via email. I see they've updated their site since I signed up: http://www.rootbsd.net/ >I'm currently with JohnCompanies. Overall, it's been a positive >experience, though I wish they offered FreeBSD 7. Beta testing for >it was supposed to begin last month, but so far no news. My Xen VPS is setup with FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. When I signed up, they were just starting to try Xen-based setups instead of jails. It looks like they've officially rolled that out as a service to everyone. >My main concern is disk space; I have 2GB for ~$26 per month. For the >same price at RootBSD you could get almost eight times as much. The >question is how reliable are they? I can't find any information on >their site about where the data center is or the exact system >specifications. Machines are located in two different datacenters in Raleigh, NC (or at least, that's what they told me!). In my case, I just wanted a machine located far enough away from Troy, NY that any problem which took out my office machine would not take out my "off-site" machine. North Carolina sounded far enough away to me! At the moment, my machine has been up for 35 days, and at that time the reason it went down was because I rebooted it after making some changes. I've had the system for maybe two months, and haven't had any problems with it. Remember though, I haven't been pushing it all that much. Basically do automatic backups to it at night, and then may ssh into it to test a few things a week. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu