Sad Clouds <cryintotheblue...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, could anyone recommend web hosting providers for the following cases: > > 1. Register domain while it is available and set up basic web + email. > This only needs to be an empty landing page and ability to > send/receive emails at the new domain. There are thousands of > providers out there and I could pick one at random, but would like to > find a BSD friendly provider, so that I don't have to migrate if I > need to upgrade to VPS or Co-location. > > 2. At some point in the future I would like to run NetBSD or FreeBSD > VPS, so would be good to have recommendations for this case.
If you really want a NetBSD-savvy web hosting and VPS provider, then I'm afraid that your choices will be limited and that you should be prepared to pay a premium price. Most VPS providers that offer KVM virtualization allow for installation from ISOs, and recent versions of NetBSD run fine on KVM. If you're prepared to install NetBSD on a VPS and manage the VPS yourself, you can save a lot of money, but naturally the downside is that the provider won't be able to help with NetBSD-specific issues. > Also, I live in the UK, but not sure of hosting in Europe vs US. Are > there any recommendations against holding your data in US data > centres, i.e. DMCA issues, NSA spying, etc? Someone has already mentioned Vultr (who offer KVM VPSes), which is a good choice. I've run a small NetBSD VPS at Vultr in the past. For a small, reliable UK-based provider (who offer both web hosting and VPSes), I can recommend https://inceptionhosting.com/ . I currently run a small NetBSD VPS with them. C.