From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 25 21:08:01 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FA9258A for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:08:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jflowers@ezo.net) Received: from mail-oa0-f54.google.com (mail-oa0-f54.google.com [209.85.219.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C6228FC08 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:08:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f54.google.com with SMTP id n9so13180218oag.13 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 13:08:00 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-originating-ip:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=McewJKqkCzr/DZom8JSZToGdSyTMXAeIFJKo6zMuWiE=; b=hMscAUsrwXxdXII373h/7YTRa248vN0Ni1/b4EpLCBAG4iOcNTRp8yeHP+dlU2GBUp cuPpuK9qCnRtGUf/jRZwTlu14oaUtIz+67PNdy+YzZnEnc+0yBQtAA+6akEXxYZKVPFd mayeE8eyjoxZqUuFn6kqnFMtUOhJAxhaBhxg9Q0pFY+qUW/DpH2ThAUjAAQSrNfi/D1D nC3pZNDMkBPqvfO8tGfG1WkotfCYeb764vkO7pUZBkO4buQ9yLklHIo5Vk7eSJUOcQvq oZRE6AQocQ8x7az7c1cJ321GSHAUn6KG+XwB1OIihF2UaRgzHHgU9CGsSR4h47AynKC9 XeFQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.60.4.161 with SMTP id l1mr7552742oel.141.1353877680166; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 13:08:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.76.125.68 with HTTP; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 13:08:00 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [174.252.211.4] Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:08:00 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: VPS FreeBSD Hosting From: Jim Flowers To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlkKLpJMORPNAnkkQ6qZQeLtLPafUjHnxMkIgJ3LExiA7G2+kqUJJQDy0H9ZwFS6iLXBp53 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:08:01 -0000 I gave up maintaining my own hardware for providing cloud computing services about 10 years ago and have been using several dedicated server services with root-access FreeBSD since about 6.0. with good results. At the time VPS looked like too many problems. Now, however, it looks like there are quite a number of mature VPS hosting services that are FreeBSD-centric at very attractive prices. Most offer KVM or VPS-instance access to allow rebooting and reinstallation. Can anyone comment on the providers and the technology in the context of having used them specifically for FreeBSD in the last few years? Good? Bad? Indifferent? Fairly modest duty - spam filtering, mailboxes, websites, storage, reverse proxy and the like. Oh yeah, some development. Thanks