From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 9 19:37:20 2010 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 44A591065673 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 19:37:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp6.server.rpi.edu (smtp6.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBCDB8FC19 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 19:37:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp6.server.rpi.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id o39IYssT015793; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 14:34:55 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <7BB44832-271A-457B-A088-93D3F7C3370B@shockergroup.com> References: <7BB44832-271A-457B-A088-93D3F7C3370B@shockergroup.com> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 14:34:53 -0400 To: Tom Ierna , freebsd-questions From: Garance A Drosehn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0) X-RPI-SA-Score: 0.10 () [Hold at 20.00] COMBINED_FROM X-CanItPRO-Stream: outgoing X-Canit-Stats-ID: Bayes signature not available X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 128.113.2.226 Cc: Subject: Re: RootBSD? 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: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:37:20 -0000 At 9:04 AM -0400 4/6/10, Tom Ierna wrote: >Hi, > >Anyone have any experience with RootBSD.net? > >I'm looking to move an office-hosted machine's services to the >cloud, and they seem to be one of the only VPS companies centered >around BSD support instead of Linux. I've been using them for a few years now. What I have with them is a system which is meant to be used as a "hot backup" for a system which is here in my office. So, the main things I wanted was (1) real freebsd systems, (2) which were someplace far away from Troy NY. I wanted to be pretty sure that any problem which took out my main system would NOT take out my "hot backup" system! I've had absolutely no trouble with them. The few times that I've had to contact them, they've been happy to provide whatever help I needed. On the other hand, my main system has been working fine for almost three years now, so this backup system that I have at rootbsd.net has not seen much activity. I just rsync the main system to the backup system once a day, and then every few months I upgrade the FreeBSD that I'm running on the system at rootbsd.net. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosehn@rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA