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Ask HN: Suggestions for FreeBSD virtual hosting?
I'm shopping around for a new VPS host that supports FreeBSD. Rumor has it that it can be done on Linode, but it's not officially supported and it looks a bit janky.
RootBSD looks sort of OK, but their prices aren't great: $40/mo gets 1.4G RAM and 2 cores, compared to Linode's 4G and and 4 cores (and 16G more disk).
BSDvm has a site designed by crayola, and no pricing or in-depth review of features that I can find.
Atlantic.net's site suffers some of the same design cancer, it's heavy on calls-to-action and light on technical details, and they don't actually mention FreeBSD anywhere that I can find -- just other people reporting that they offer it.
So anyway ... have you run 1 or more FreeBSD VPSs somewhere and been particularly happy or horrified?
- andrewstuart 11y agoIt runs on Amazon.
- sumodirjo 11y agodigitalocean offer FreeBSD as OS
- thaumaturgy 11y agoOh, nice. I've been seeing some spam/ssh abuse from their networks recently though, but otherwise I've used them before and they seemed OK.
- downtownabbey 11y agoI like Vultr
- thaumaturgy 11y agoThey look pretty good -- anything in particular about them that you like?
- kayman 11y agoI've been using Vultr with FreeBSD10 for over 6 months now. During that time, I had to upgrade my machine to a larger one. After seeing it as reliable, stable and zero downtime, I now use it as a production machine. So far, I've had no issues and the prices are reasonable, compared to "rootbsd"
- dylz 11y agoI can recommend http://arpnetworks.com http://arpnetworks.com, and have used them for a long time (not VM but larger stuff). They are nearly totally a BSD shop [pretty sure BSD comes before linux there], and extremely competent. The chatroom also has a lot of BSD users (open and free, maybe a net or two). FreeBSD does run for VMs, and it's very good.
- stevekemp 11y agohttp://bigv.io/ http://bigv.io/, hosted by Bytemark in the UK, is a flexible product allowing you to create and scale virtual machines via a CLI, or via a web-based panel. FreeBSD runs very well on such systems.
- thaumaturgy 11y agoOoh, I really like the look of these guys. Looks like they've got a nice CLI tool for somewhat managing VMs. They don't have any US data centers though, which probably makes them a no-go. I like them enough that I'll consider getting a VM and doing a latency test, but I suspect it'll be higher than a couple of my customers will want to tolerate.
- mp99e99 11y agoHi, I work for Atlantic.Net and we have the FreeBSD logo on the homepage at the top, we also mention it in our FAQ as a supported OS: https://www.atlantic.net/cloud-hosting/faq/ https://www.atlantic.net/cloud-hosting/faq/ Hope that helps!
- snehesht 11y agoDigital Ocean, top marks.