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Is there a good option for VPS hosting with OpenBSD? It receives minimal support from major providers which I'm aware. Which is unfortunate, since I personally find it to be a much nicer system to work with than the more popular operating systems.

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Any of this should work.

https://ramnode.com/vps.php (kvm)

https://www.vultr.com/pricing/

https://www.exoscale.com/compute/

https://openbsd.amsterdam/

https://buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices

https://console.hetzner.cloud/ has OpenBSD 6.4. You must purchase a server with one of the four official Linux images first, then go server settings and from the iso images you can mount the OpenBSD install ISO and reboot. Use the server console to continue the installation.

As someone who was a heavy OVH user -- well, 100 or so dedicated servers -- and who just abandoned an attempt to migrate them to hetzner (who were slightly cheaper and offered NVME) -- let me suggest that you avoid Hetzner.

They blocked several critial IPs of mine without any warning, their support had absolutely no idea what the problem was and refused to unblock my IPs until I could convince them I'd solved the "problem" (which was an extra mac address appearing on one of my router addresses -- not an actual problem) and cost my business about 10k in the process. The email chain was... painful.

I've never had such a bad experience with a host before. YMMV of course, but I'm back on OVH and life is easy again...

You can install any Linux distro e.g. Centos with grub, copy OpenBSD install image to /boot and start it with grub. From now on you can just install it reformatting disk. You don’t need any particular support, standard KVM should be enough. Here’s guide I used recently and it worked just fine: https://archive.org/details/hpr2181

I use Vultr, and it works pretty well for a budget provider.

Vultr will let you spin up an OpenBSD VPS easily, although as to how supported it is I'm not sure. I'm certainly happy with their Linux offerings.

I actually have an OpenBSD instance with 512mb of ram that costs $2.50/mo on Vultr and their support has been amazing. A while after upgrading OpenBSD to a new version, I noticed IPV6 wasn't working anymore. I didn't initially think it was the upgrade that did it, because I rarely ever thing about IPV6, so I opened a support ticket. I got a response back by someone obviously very familiar with OpenBSD with step-by-step instructions on what I needed to do after the upgrade to get back IPV6. It was pretty amazing for $2.50/mo!

I got $10 in free credit at sign up too. Very impressed with their service so far and OpenBSD is equally well supported as Linux. In case someone is looking for the very cheap plans, make sure to select Atlanta as the data center because some other locations in the US don’t have the cheapest plans.

Out of curiosity: Was it the IPv6 regression in 5.9?

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/299580/5132

Hmm, I can't remember exactly. It was either 5.9->6.0 or 6.0->6.1. I'm leaning towards the latter.

https://openbsd.amsterdam/setup.html

this was posted here. I was intrigued but have not tried it (because my software relies on java 11, which is not on OpenBSD)

Perhaps https://openbsd.amsterdam

You can upload a custom image to your digital ocean droplet.

KVM (not joking)

If I had colo space, why not just run OpenBSD on bare metal and optionally use vmm? I want this precisely because I'm not in a position to host stuff physically myself.

I mean (forgive my heresy) using kvm(-the-hypervisor) under GNU/Linux to run guest OpenBSD. That is at least a very fast way to get started, spin up €2 instance somewhere, qemu -cdrom openbsd.iso and that's it.

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