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Ask HN: Suggestions for FreeBSD virtual hosting?

6 points by thaumaturgy ↗ HN
I'm shopping around for a new VPS host that supports FreeBSD. Rumor has it that it can be done on Linode, but it's not officially supported and it looks a bit janky.

RootBSD looks sort of OK, but their prices aren't great: $40/mo gets 1.4G RAM and 2 cores, compared to Linode's 4G and and 4 cores (and 16G more disk).

BSDvm has a site designed by crayola, and no pricing or in-depth review of features that I can find.

Atlantic.net's site suffers some of the same design cancer, it's heavy on calls-to-action and light on technical details, and they don't actually mention FreeBSD anywhere that I can find -- just other people reporting that they offer it.

So anyway ... have you run 1 or more FreeBSD VPSs somewhere and been particularly happy or horrified?

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sumodirjo
digitalocean offer FreeBSD as OS
thaumaturgy
Oh, nice. I've been seeing some spam/ssh abuse from their networks recently though, but otherwise I've used them before and they seemed OK.
downtownabbey
I like Vultr
thaumaturgy
They look pretty good -- anything in particular about them that you like?
kayman
I've been using Vultr with FreeBSD10 for over 6 months now. During that time, I had to upgrade my machine to a larger one. After seeing it as reliable, stable and zero downtime, I now use it as a production machine.

So far, I've had no issues and the prices are reasonable, compared to "rootbsd"

dylz
I can recommend http://arpnetworks.com, and have used them for a long time (not VM but larger stuff).

They are nearly totally a BSD shop [pretty sure BSD comes before linux there], and extremely competent. The chatroom also has a lot of BSD users (open and free, maybe a net or two).

FreeBSD does run for VMs, and it's very good.

stevekemp
http://bigv.io/, hosted by Bytemark in the UK, is a flexible product allowing you to create and scale virtual machines via a CLI, or via a web-based panel.

FreeBSD runs very well on such systems.

thaumaturgy
Ooh, I really like the look of these guys. Looks like they've got a nice CLI tool for somewhat managing VMs.

They don't have any US data centers though, which probably makes them a no-go. I like them enough that I'll consider getting a VM and doing a latency test, but I suspect it'll be higher than a couple of my customers will want to tolerate.