From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 28 23:25:04 2009 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 CE9BF106564A for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 23:25:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from elon@physik.tu-berlin.de) Received: from mail.tu-berlin.de (mail.TU-Berlin.DE [130.149.7.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C2038FC23 for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 23:25:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from elon@physik.tu-berlin.de) X-tubIT-Incoming-IP: 130.149.58.163 Received: from mail.physik-pool.tu-berlin.de ([130.149.58.163] helo=mail.physik.tu-berlin.de) by mail.tu-berlin.de (exim-4.69/mailfrontend-d) with esmtp id 1M9oy7-0001tX-Kq; Fri, 29 May 2009 01:25:03 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost.physik-pool.tu-berlin.de [127.0.0.1]) by mail.physik.tu-berlin.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 643C611402; Fri, 29 May 2009 01:25:01 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at physik.tu-berlin.de Received: from mail.physik.tu-berlin.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.physik-pool.TU-Berlin.DE [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id jaM0IEPOBE5n; Fri, 29 May 2009 01:24:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from emmi.physik-pool.tu-berlin.de (emmi.physik-pool.tu-berlin.de [130.149.58.146]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.physik.tu-berlin.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 20E6811401; Fri, 29 May 2009 01:24:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from emmi.physik-pool.tu-berlin.de (localhost.physik-pool.tu-berlin.de [127.0.0.1]) by emmi.physik-pool.tu-berlin.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n4SNOwSW076534; Fri, 29 May 2009 01:24:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from elon@emmi.physik-pool.tu-berlin.de) Received: (from elon@localhost) by emmi.physik-pool.tu-berlin.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n4SNOwpT076533; Fri, 29 May 2009 01:24:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from elon) Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 01:24:58 +0200 From: Leon =?iso-8859-15?Q?Me=DFner?= To: Iv Ray Message-ID: <20090528232458.GB21210@emmi.physik-pool.tu-berlin.de> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-tubIT-Score: 0.0 () Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD in a cloud 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: Thu, 28 May 2009 23:25:05 -0000 On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:35:05PM +0200, Iv Ray wrote: > Does anyone know a place to host FreeBSD in a cloud? Nope, but i heard amazon and some FreeBSD people are working on this. AFAIK it's dependent on the used Hypervisor and works with latest version of Xen (the freebsd wiki says so at least). > Rackspace offer quite interesting cloud servers via www.mosso.com - > but they claim they run only Linux. > > We have had FreeBSD with Rackspace for over 5 years (though they > refuse to officially support it) and I cannot understand if they > cannot or do not want to run it in the cloud. cheers, leon