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FreeBSD coming to DigitalOcean

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Until this actually happens for DigitalOcean, if you want to mess around with FreeBSD right away, you should just check out the Atlantic.net $.99 a month Go Plan.

The key part is the last sentence:

"In regards to FreeBSD, we’ve begun the work necessary to get it supported in DO. We’ve already begun testing it internally and hope to launch within the next 2 months."

Finally!

Yeah at first its a lot to read but at least it gets to it at the end :)

I would definitely sign up for a FreeBSD droplet, I haven't found a *BSD VPS anywhere near what I'm paying comparable to the specs of a couple OpenVZ Debian GNU/Linux nodes (512MB Ram/50Gb Disk/2TB net) $15/yr. I would hope OpenBSD adoption would soon follow to host many of my services in a more default hardened OS.

Er, seems odd to be using OpenVZ if security/hardening is what you're after.

The shared kernel is a larger attack surface compared to KVM or Xen, and the OpenVZ host admin can easily see/manipulate your running processes.

No hate for OpenVZ though, I've used it constantly for about 4 years, but it makes me nervous when its discussed in a multi-tenant context.

ah indeed.. security isn't my focus on those nodes, running a couple of test server applications.

Why do you think a shared kernel is somehow more secure than a hypervisor?

Me? My point was that HV/PV virtualization is likely to be more secure than OpenVZ, sorry if it was unclear.

Have you seen vultr.com? There's also atlantic.net and dediserve.com for comparison.

I used to have a Linux VM on DigitalOcean. At times it became unreachable, there were some downtimes here and there. I decided to go back to FreeBSD (I used to have a FreeBSD VM on John Companies), and did some research. Vultr.com came up at the top, so I moved to them. Two months in, so far so good.

Well this is great news! I can finally stop trying to use Depenguinator http://www.daemonology.net/depenguinator/ ;-)

It's good to see FreeBSD moving up. Maybe it's time to give ArchBSD a try?

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