Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 21 Mar 2024 07:25:51 +0000
From:      "Dave Cottlehuber" <dch@skunkwerks.at>
To:        "Dmitry Salychev" <dsl@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>, "Joseph Holsten" <joseph@josephholsten.com>
Subject:   Re: free ARM VPS
Message-ID:  <960f1b83-b169-4249-946c-c8f7f31595db@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <864jd0ul39.fsf@peasant.tower.home>
References:  <3a9870c3-e29c-4782-a148-57684d1f917d@gmx.at> <4a896a4e-cdb5-4351-ad29-8e014321f776@gmail.com> <876b9d58-6aba-460b-b972-0bd373936ca9@app.fastmail.com> <864jd0ul39.fsf@peasant.tower.home>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, 21 Mar 2024, at 06:56, Dmitry Salychev wrote:
> "Joseph Holsten" <joseph@josephholsten.com> writes:
>
>> There is a FreeBSD image in the =E2=80=9CMarketplace=E2=80=9D. There =
was a mixup last fall and 14 isn=E2=80=99t up yet, but some foundation f=
olks are actively working on it. If you use the official one, it=E2=80=99=
s just a quick freebsd-update to get you there.
>>
>> If you have trouble with the service, feel free to yell at me. Juggli=
ng support tickets and ops projects for Oracle Cloud Compute is my day j=
ob. I use FreeBSD daily outside work, I want it not to suck.
>
> Is it really suitable as a replacement for a RootBSD/NetActuate VPS to=
 run
> a mail server + some minor pieces?

Hi Dmitry,

Yes. TLDR consider them as fully fledged server CPUs because they are.
The hardest part is the signup process:

- https://people.freebsd.org/~dch/posts/2021-06-02-oci-signup.html

It's a standard arm64 CPUs from Ampere (hw.model: ARM Neoverse-N1 r3p1)
and quite capable of running anything. I run DBs (PostgreSQL, CouchDB),
DNS services & Phoenix web apps off them, all in jails ofc. The free
tier gives 4 CPU cores (no hyperthreading garbage!), 24GiB RAM, and
IIRC up to 200GiB storage. That's plenty.

Here's an OCI ampere doing `openssl speed` (single threaded)
but very non-scientific as the ampere is running 14.0-RELEASE, and
Ten64 is ofc running CURRENT DEBUG + witness.

Ampere: (14.0-RELEASE GENERIC)
type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 =
bytes  16384 bytes
sha256           77675.94k   280389.41k   774386.13k  1396836.35k  18295=
90.81k  1871025.49k

Ten64: (15-CURRENT DEBUG)
type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 =
bytes  16384 bytes
sha256           13622.39k    50566.72k   166540.20k   387515.05k   6412=
43.92k   665962.87k

If you want to test something let me know.

A+
Dave



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?960f1b83-b169-4249-946c-c8f7f31595db>