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Do you know of an alternative that can host an instance of FreeBSD?

by zatkin 10y ago

anilgulecha 10y ago
I'm familiar only with AWS, and it supports FreeBSD.
- eropple 10y ago
  "Supports" is a strong phrase. Colin Percival creates FreeBSD AMIs. They work mmmmmostly as you might expect, except there's no cloud-init (instead it uses a gizmo that cperciva wrote), but AWS doesn't support it--that's a community thing.
cyphar 10y ago
I believe Vultr offers FreeBSD (and custom ISO) hosting at about the same price and offers storage servers too. Their documentation and remote console tools leave a lot to be desired though (I wanted to install openSUSE and ended up resorting to manually entering the iPXE commands at a console to get the damn thing installed).
- nicolas_t 10y ago
  Their support also leaves a lot to be desired. Had a persistent network problem due to a misconfiguration of their system and it took two weeks of back and forth before they really looked into it.
- deleted 10y ago
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- po1nter 10y ago
  Are Vuktr and DigitalOcean related in any way? their websites look really similar down to the animation that shows you how to create a new droplet/server.
  - nik736 10y ago
    No, Vultr is a spin off of choopa. DO and them have nothing to do with each other.
  - dumbsecreport 10y ago
    No, but they've always ripped off the site like that, either on purpose or not. It was worse when the company just came out.
- pilsetnieks 10y ago
  Looking at their DNS setup workflow[1] and API functions[2] I don't see any step where you would have to verify domain ownership - which is this whole thing is about, isn't it? [1] https://serverpilot.io/community/articles/how-to-configure-dns-on-vultr.html https://serverpilot.io/community/articles/how-to-configure-d... [2] https://www.vultr.com/api/#dns https://www.vultr.com/api/#dns
  - cyphar 10y ago
    I was providing an example of a host that provides FreeBSD support. To be clear, I don't think Vultr is a good host so I'm not really sure why I mentioned them to be honest...
mattbee 10y ago
Sure, Bytemark Cloud https://www.bytemark.co.uk/cloud https://www.bytemark.co.uk/cloud will let you install from a CD image if you need to, and we FreeBSD works fine.
icebraining 10y ago
TransIP is similar to DO (except they've had large storage for years) and they support FreeBSD. I've been a happy customer for a couple of years now, never had any problems. https://www.transip.eu/ https://www.transip.eu/
- jbverschoor 10y ago
  Yeah me too.. However, transip only has a dutch dc.

Do you know of an alternative that can host an instance of FreeBSD?

by zatkin 10y ago

Do you know of an alternative that can host an instance of FreeBSD?

anilgulecha 10y ago

I'm familiar only with AWS, and it supports FreeBSD.

eropple 10y ago
"Supports" is a strong phrase. Colin Percival creates FreeBSD AMIs. They work mmmmmostly as you might expect, except there's no cloud-init (instead it uses a gizmo that cperciva wrote), but AWS doesn't support it--that's a community thing.

cyphar 10y ago

I believe Vultr offers FreeBSD (and custom ISO) hosting at about the same price and offers storage servers too. Their documentation and remote console tools leave a lot to be desired though (I wanted to install openSUSE and ended up resorting to manually entering the iPXE commands at a console to get the damn thing installed).

nicolas_t 10y ago
Their support also leaves a lot to be desired. Had a persistent network problem due to a misconfiguration of their system and it took two weeks of back and forth before they really looked into it.
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po1nter 10y ago
Are Vuktr and DigitalOcean related in any way? their websites look really similar down to the animation that shows you how to create a new droplet/server.
- nik736 10y ago
  No, Vultr is a spin off of choopa. DO and them have nothing to do with each other.
- dumbsecreport 10y ago
  No, but they've always ripped off the site like that, either on purpose or not. It was worse when the company just came out.
pilsetnieks 10y ago
Looking at their DNS setup workflow[1] and API functions[2] I don't see any step where you would have to verify domain ownership - which is this whole thing is about, isn't it? [1] https://serverpilot.io/community/articles/how-to-configure-dns-on-vultr.html https://serverpilot.io/community/articles/how-to-configure-d... [2] https://www.vultr.com/api/#dns https://www.vultr.com/api/#dns
- cyphar 10y ago
  I was providing an example of a host that provides FreeBSD support. To be clear, I don't think Vultr is a good host so I'm not really sure why I mentioned them to be honest...

mattbee 10y ago

Sure, Bytemark Cloud https://www.bytemark.co.uk/cloud https://www.bytemark.co.uk/cloud will let you install from a CD image if you need to, and we FreeBSD works fine.

icebraining 10y ago

TransIP is similar to DO (except they've had large storage for years) and they support FreeBSD. I've been a happy customer for a couple of years now, never had any problems. https://www.transip.eu/ https://www.transip.eu/

jbverschoor 10y ago
Yeah me too.. However, transip only has a dutch dc.