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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!

wow very sad. Very long running periodical.

Wow! This is amazing, glad to be alive to see this!

This is very sad for US consumers.

This article is largely correct. Although we do cloud now, my company started as a access provider that was pushed out of the industry once Michael Powell changed the rules eliminating competition. If people knew what Internet access costs to deliver (small fractions of what you are paying) they would be shocked. Sadly, in the long-run it leaves the USA behind the rest of the world.

This is pretty exciting!

this was fixed, cron restriction removed.

Interesting, added this to our list of customer suggestions for review. Thanks for the heads up!

thanks, its updated. Cron and a few other things removed. I think you'll find it acceptable now.

Thanks to everyone who pointed this out.

Thanks, its not easy!

yes, we're fixing the AUP today to remove cron jobs.

web app is acceptable. Sounds like a great use for one of our servers!

Can't handle it right now; we just launched and we're limiting one per customer to try to accommodate everyone.

We don't current accept paypal. But we're working on it.

We accept debit cards & prepaid credit cards, too.

We are limiting these to try to have enough capacity so everyone can get one. Its new!

We're working on this now, should be up in a few hours.

yes

Its coming :)

Thanks for the feedback. We have a new interface & website, but weren't able to get it up by launch time. I agree, DO's interface is prettier, as well as their website. They do a great job with the design over there.

Its KVM, not OpenVZ.

While its true we would like you to buy a larger plan, in other countries even $5 USD can be barrier to entry for a speculative idea. Plus, what if you want to tinker, toy and learn? We're trying something new, give it a chance.

Hello Atlantic.net alumni! We're still grinding it out and trying to change the world from here! Keep hope alive!

KVM

Backups are on another server in the same datacenter.

Hi, I'm going to work on the AUP tomorrow. The spirit of our AUP is to discourage antisocial behavior.

Hi,

The spirit of this is to avoid abuse on our cloud. If you don't feel comfortable providing us with contact information, we're probably not the place for you. I'm working on the AUP tomorrow, the cron/background services doesn't make sense or the RAM.

Your right. I am going to work on this tomorrow, it was adapted from a prior business model. Thanks for pointing this out!

Hi Everyone:

Thanks for the thumbs up on this.

Firstly, we are a 20-year old startup! Everyone laughed at us when we talked about doing the original Internet startup -- dialup Internet. Over time, we adapted and rode the booms and busts that went on in our industry, all the while staying cash flow positive and learning to GRIND.

We are thinking there is going to be a explosion in startups globally, that will lead to the next big things, not just in the web but material sciences, biotech, etc.

Our goal is to build out a global compute infrastructure and get it in the hands of tomorrows Einsteins.. wherever they are born. We want to see the future happen faster, and see more of it in our lifetimes. Thats not going to happen if we wait around for today's dominant players, who for whatever reason are moving extremely slow.

Thats our over-reaching goal. You can read about it here:

https://www.atlantic.net/blog/2014/09/30/atlantic-net-launch...

Doing a startup is really, really hard. We're trying to make it less so. We're also ready to provide an alternative narrative to AWS conquering the world -- but we have to be aggressive and go FAST!

So, bottom line is we're trying to do something new,take some risks,be bold, and take on the giants of the industry.

AWS's margin is our opportunity :)

Wish us luck! We're going for it!

Sad, wish they made it.

We have audited HIPAA compliant hosting, at a reasonable price:

https://www.atlantic.net/hipaa-compliant-hosting/

Amazing job nice work