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Ask HN: Suggestions for FreeBSD virtual hosting?

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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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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.

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.

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.

Hi,

I work for Atlantic.Net and we have the FreeBSD logo on the homepage at the top, we also mention it in our FAQ as a supported OS:

https://www.atlantic.net/cloud-hosting/faq/

Hope that helps!

I like Vultr

They look pretty good -- anything in particular about them that you like?

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"

It runs on Amazon.

digitalocean offer FreeBSD as OS

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.

Digital Ocean, top marks.

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