I have looked in the past for a FreeBSD VPS host but I could never find anything satisfactory or as large as Linode so that I had some semblance of knowledge th

I have looked in the past for a FreeBSD VPS host but I could never find anything satisfactory or as large as Linode so that I had some semblance of knowledge that my instance wouldn't disappear tomorrow. Although, from a cursory glance the following seem to still be up from my last research tour around the internet: http://www.rootbsd.net/ http://www.rootbsd.net/, http://bsdvm.com/ http://bsdvm.com/, http://nqhost.com/freebsd-vps.html http://nqhost.com/freebsd-vps.html One of the big issues I see is that virtualising FreeBSD doesn't always work correctly, last I heard there were issues with FreeBSD and multi-processing on top of Xen for example [2], and there is still no native hypervisor for FreeBSD [1] (I honestly wish they would steal the KVM stuff from OpenIndiana, KVM on Linux absolutely rocks!) and that means you will always be running on top of some other OS or HyperVisor such as KVM, Xen, VirtualBox, and others, so the full stack support for running FreeBSD on top of FreeBSD is still unfortunately out of reach. [1]: That isn't entirely true, there is a project named BHyVe that is working on this, but I haven't heard/seen any updates since early 2011. Also, it requires that you mask off the memory to be used for virtual machines, unlike KVM and others... See: http://wiki.freebsd.org/BHyVe http://wiki.freebsd.org/BHyVe [2]: http://www.hungryhacker.com/os/freebsd-on-linode/ http://www.hungryhacker.com/os/freebsd-on-linode/ (See comment about requesting vcpu's to be set to 1: "Linodes default to vcpus=4, which will choke FreeBSD at the moment. They won’t increase this setting of course, but they will happily lower it for you. Simply give them your Linode # and ask them to reduce vcpus to 1 and they’ll make the change.") Do note that the author used FreeBSD 8.1 so it is entirely possible that the limitation is now removed with FreeBSD 9.0