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Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD for my personal website: collocation, cloud, etc.
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> there are quite a few other smaller players. This FreeBSD 
> News article from June lists some
> http://www.freebsdnews.net/2013/06/05/reliable-customer-friendly-freebsd-hosting/

They mention FirstVDS.ru, but that website is in Russian. The same
Russian company has also English-language website, you can choose
server in USA (NAC MMU datacenter near NYC) or Russia.
I use their cheapest VPS option (now $4.95/month) since 2008.
It's a jail under FreeBSD with limited resources
(RAM 64M, swap 128M, disk 5 GB, traffic 100 GB/month, one IPv4 IP-address).
Kernel RAM and preinstalled packages aren't counted in these limits.
If you use this link for ordering then both you and me get a discount:
http://joinvps.com/?from=33485
In my VPS (jail) I installed (from ports) `mathopd` web-server and Exim
instead of default Apache and sendmail. My Exim config including
all the spam-filtering: https://github.com/Exim/exim/wiki/LenasConfig

Lena