From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 18 08:41:29 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DFED1065673 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:41:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cbergstrom@pathscale.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f49.google.com (mail-pz0-f49.google.com [209.85.210.49]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7478E8FC14 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:41:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk33 with SMTP id 33so5088974pzk.8 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:41:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.29.100 with SMTP id j4mr7912202pbh.154.1310978488754; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:41:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.33] (ppp-58-8-59-146.revip2.asianet.co.th [58.8.59.146]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x1sm2376552pbb.82.2011.07.18.01.41.25 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:41:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E23F31C.3010803@pathscale.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:47:24 +0700 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22C=2E_Bergstr=F6m=22?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20101031 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Vande More References: <20110717071059.25971662@scorpio> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Outback Dingo , FreeBSD Subject: Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:41:29 -0000 On 07/18/11 03:02 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Outback Dingowrote: > >> Im pretty sure they are only XEN based and not "cloud" based per se, as >> there appears to be no elasticity on demand, Granted RootBSD is nice >> but on demand expansion of memory, cpu and disk under ones control is more >> what i would describe as FreeBSD in the cloud, >> > Cloud computing by most definitions I'm aware of refer to the decades old > practice of outsourcing data storage and processing needs. RootBSD fits > comfortably into this definition. Elastic cloud computing(IMO an often > overrated attribute) is an enhanced version of such services. The definition > is something of a moot point in this discussion as either setup is available > for FreeBSD guests with multiple hosting providers. > > http://www.reliacloud.com/ and http://www.elastichosts.com/ are a couple > examples of the more sophisticated ones. One of those links gives a 404 on the root domain and the other on the pricing page (http://www.reliacloud.com/pricing/) I'm not sure how serious these efforts are or where it actually gives more information on how they are powered by BSD in any way. -------- I wish people would spend as much time solving problems in *BSD as they do trying to defend an irrelevant OS ;)