From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 30 21:12:14 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 B2749106564A for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:12:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A9928FC0C for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:12:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by faak28 with SMTP id k28so1365775faa.13 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:12:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.204.128.199 with SMTP id l7mr4273598bks.27.1322687532879; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:12:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from dfleuriot.local ([2a01:e35:2f1b:d6f0:e6ce:8fff:fe15:741a]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id iu9sm6654455bkc.0.2011.11.30.13.12.06 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:12:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4ED69C25.6040908@my.gd> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:12:05 +0100 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: OT: looking for a datacenter in France and Italy that offers FreeBSD 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: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:12:14 -0000 On 11/30/11 2:42 PM, claudiu vasadi wrote: > Hi guys, > > I know this is a bit offtopic but I'm looking for a datacenter in France > and Italy that can provide FreeBSD and I would appreciate some feedback > and/or personal experience with any. > We are looking to expand our business into these 2 countries so we need to > rent some servers. > > Any feedback is welcome. > Hi, I can recommend online.net, when it comes to dedicated servers in france. They offer a range of dell servers, most of which offer remote console access (DRAC). You will face 2 issues: 1/ Be warned that for some of them, freebsd will not run out of the box. This is the case for the r210 range, there are driver compatibility issues with dell's h200 HBA. We worked on the issue here on the list last year (or was it early this year ?) so the mps driver from 9.x got ported back to 8.2-RELEASE. With mps, you can destroy dell's hardware RAID and be presented with the physical disks as /dev/da0 and /dev/da1 Sadly the mps driver is not included in 8.2's ISOs, however it is included in 8.2-RELEASE when you update your sources and rebuild the world and kernel. In my case, I used Martin Matuska's MFSBSD image to load freebsd to RAM, then install a custom image with the mps driver included. 2/ You need a legal presence in france (either be a physical person, or a company) with a bank account, to rent their servers. If that should be off-putting, you can always try OVH, but I've always found their service to be inferior to Online's.