Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 20:50:28 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Jay West <jwest@ezwind.net> Cc: 'Tony' <abletony84@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD losing market share? Message-ID: <20120409005028.GB71564@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <000a01cd1595$17fd2970$47f77c50$@net> References: <CADnJ0kHsyJpsEdfTzcoUr-6z7KC7soR5ViwKb1hk4jH6PR2CoQ@mail.gmail.com> <000a01cd1595$17fd2970$47f77c50$@net>
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On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 09:37:15AM -0500, Jay West wrote: > Tony wrote... > ------------------- > I'm a bit alarmed by the fact that none of the major low-cost Xen VPS-based > hosting providers in the modern web development > scene<http://rubyonrails.org/screencasts/rails3>; (Rackspace, > Linode, SliceHost, Webbynode etc.) offer FreeBSD hosting. Sure there are > some that offer dedicated servers like M5 Hosting, RootBSD, Pair etc. but > those are hard to find and ridiculously expensive. > > Why doesn't FreeBSD support Xen? > ------------------- > > One could also ask why Xen doesn't support FreeBSD ;) > > I've been a loyal FreeBSD zealot for decades and I still am. However, I have > to admit, there are two severe shortcomings - not all entirely freebsd's > fault - that keep it out of Xen hosting (and some other high end) > environments. The answer is: > > 1) No true clustered filesystem (GFS for one example). Takes it out of the > running completely for those environments. Hast is a wonderful step in the > right direction, but really not the answer. > 2) Xen - Xen-Tools have not been supported on FreeBSD to this day. Without > it, there's little sense in running FreeBSD in a commercial hosting > environment under XenServer. No live migration, and half the other nice > features aren't available. > > If Xen-tools was supported in FreeBSD, I'm sure you'd see it popping up as a > guest in XenServer hosting providers. Well, guess you and Tony have some work to do then. I expect it will be more than a weekend project for you. ////jerry > > J > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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