Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:09:18 -0600 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: "Kelly Jones" <kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Low-cost dedicated FreeBSD server or non-jail VPS? Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20070207190744.02801488@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <26face530702071701v2980a87vcf0a3195688b684e@mail.gmail.com > References: <26face530702071701v2980a87vcf0a3195688b684e@mail.gmail.com>
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FreeBSD runs on most i386 based hardware as long as you have 64 MB ram or
more. So you can recycle an old desktop PC to run FreeBSD and then have at
it. Or buy a cheap new desktop or refurbished.
-Derek
At 07:01 PM 2/7/2007, Kelly Jones wrote:
>I'm looking to rent a low-cost FreeBSD dedicated server or VPS with
>root access. For a VPS, I realize this is really psuedo-root access.
>
>I once rented a VPS on a FreeBSD box that was split into virtual boxes
>using "jail", but wasn't happy with it. So, if it's not a dedicated
>box, I'm looking for something like Virtuozzo, Xen, vmware running
>FreeBSD as a guest OS, etc.
>
>The box doesn't have to be super-fast or have lots of disk space: just
>looking for something that will let me play around with ports, pf, run
>experiments, etc
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
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