Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?
I'm looking for somebody to host some web sites for me. Ideally I'd like a complete machine, but a jail would do too. I can find plenty of Linux-based offerings, but the only one I can find with FreeBSD is in Germany and requires me to be resident in Germany. Can anybody point me to one that I, as an Australian resident, can use? Feel free to reply to me personally and blow your own trumpet if you want. Please also note that I'm not subscribed to these lists, so please don't reply only to the list. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. Hi Greg cc lists, Friends run a very flexible BSD based provider company in Munich. http://bsn.de bsn.com I have servers there. It wouldn't matter to them you weren't in Germany. They speak English German. Could offer FreeBSD on i686 or so, or sparc-something (maybe OpenBSD for sparc, not sure). They'd likely prefer to offer complete box rental, not a jail. Greg, call Norbert Poellmann cc'd +49 89 692 8120 to discuss possibilities. Norbert, Greg is author of a FreeBSD book, visited Gary I etc here once. Index of providers here ( BSN on list) http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/isp.html Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSDUnixLinux C Prog Admin SysEng Consult Munich www.berklix.com Mail just Ascii plain text. HTML Base64 text are spam. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: JohnCompanies and RootBSD (was Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?)
My main concern is disk space; I have 2GB for ~$26 per month. This too is my only gripe about JohnCompanies. For $29 a month, I only get a VPS with 2GB of space -- and they don't allow you to add more diskpace unless you upgrade to a higher ($49/month) plan. while i live in Poland, where (in theory) internet services are more expensive than US and many west countries (we are told so at least), it looks like very expensive. 29$/month=348$/year for what i understand - Xen based servers with a bit of RAM allocated and 2GB disk space. it's just funny in context of todays cheap 500-1000GB disks. While i don't do this widely (too little money, too much work to advertise etc.) i have 20 clients on my servers just having their FreeBSD jail for 100$/month. There is 20GB soft limit - where soft means that you generally can keep more, but if i will have space problems i will ask to free some space. The important question is traffic generated, not disk space, as this is what's expensive. I just can't understand the basis of their offers. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do they do their VPS product? [was Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?]
On Thursday 19 June 2008 19:29:35 George Hartzell wrote: Is/was there some proprietary virtualization technology in the 4.x days? Not a proprietary one: http://www.tel.fer.hr/zec/BSD/vimage-old/ http://imunes.tel.fer.hr/virtnet/eurobsdcon07_tutorial.pdf The presentation pdf states: Anecdotal evidence: FreeBSD 4.11 based version in production use by some US ISPs Is it still alive and kicking somewhere? Hopefully, it will be integrated to HEAD during summer. You can follow the discussions here: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization Anyone have any insights into how these VPS products were built? Maybe it was that, maybe not... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?
M5 hosting, http://www.m5hosting.com. Those folks are great. You can find more at http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/ On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for somebody to host some web sites for me. Ideally I'd like a complete machine, but a jail would do too. I can find plenty of Linux-based offerings, but the only one I can find with FreeBSD is in Germany and requires me to be resident in Germany. Can anybody point me to one that I, as an Australian resident, can use? Feel free to reply to me personally and blow your own trumpet if you want. Please also note that I'm not subscribed to these lists, so please don't reply only to the list. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?
On 19 Jun 2008, at 01:31, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I'm looking for somebody to host some web sites for me. Ideally I'd like a complete machine, but a jail would do too. I can find plenty of Linux-based offerings, but the only one I can find with FreeBSD is in Germany and requires me to be resident in Germany. Can anybody point me to one that I, as an Australian resident, can use? Feel free to reply to me personally and blow your own trumpet if you want. Please also note that I'm not subscribed to these lists, so please don't reply only to the list. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. Hi We Entanet host on FreeBSD as the default and its been that way since we started back in 1996 We are in the UK -- Steve Lalonde RTFM Chief Technical Officer Entanet International Ltd http://www.enta.net/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?
+1 for JC. The tech support and availability is unparalleled. Satisfied customer for over three years. +2 for JohnCompanies. Excellent support and good prices for VPS. I intend to have several more VPS with them over the next few months. HTH Charlie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?
I can, as usual, highly recommend M5 Hosting. Mike (the owner) is VERY helpful and he is very knowledgeable in *BSD - a lot of hosts will install it, but few know how to use it. His hardware is good and he uses AMCC (3Ware) cards for RAID. The network rocks. I can also say I have had decent luck with ThePlanet, but I get better bandwidth with M5 and I know if I have to call someone, he knows his stuff. -Patrick 2008/6/18 Sahil Tandon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maxim Khitrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently with JohnCompanies. Overall, it's been a positive experience, though I wish they offered FreeBSD 7. Beta testing for it was supposed to begin last month, but so far no news. +1 for JC. The tech support and availability is unparalleled. Satisfied customer for over three years. -- Sahil Tandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do they do their VPS product? [was Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?]
Sahil Tandon writes: Maxim Khitrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently with JohnCompanies. Overall, it's been a positive experience, though I wish they offered FreeBSD 7. Beta testing for it was supposed to begin last month, but so far no news. +1 for JC. The tech support and availability is unparalleled. Satisfied customer for over three years. Seeing JC advertise a FreeBSD VPS product reminded me of an itch I've never been able to scratch. I know about jails at the simple end, and I know about VMware at the complicated end, but I've never been able to figure out what technology underlies the VPS offerings. I help out a friend on a Verio VPS that reports itself as FreeBSD 4.7 w/ a kernel config file named VKERN. There's some concept of a virtual root, a command named 'virtual' works a bit like sudo does for credentials, and there's otherwise an odd mix of it's all my machine and it's a shared server. Is/was there some proprietary virtualization technology in the 4.x days? Is it still alive and kicking somewhere? Anyone have any insights into how these VPS products were built? Thanks, g. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do they do their VPS product? [was Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?]
the libvirt stuff might be a clue, a while back I designed a virtual system using libvirt and some ported linux code, which basiclaly acted as an enhanced chroot for apache, ftp, mail, pop3, imap. also NTT has a derivitive version of FreeBSD with hints at virtualization, im waiting for our Verio to be setup now, so once it is ill peruse it a bit On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 09:29 -0700, George Hartzell wrote: Sahil Tandon writes: Maxim Khitrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently with JohnCompanies. Overall, it's been a positive experience, though I wish they offered FreeBSD 7. Beta testing for it was supposed to begin last month, but so far no news. +1 for JC. The tech support and availability is unparalleled. Satisfied customer for over three years. Seeing JC advertise a FreeBSD VPS product reminded me of an itch I've never been able to scratch. I know about jails at the simple end, and I know about VMware at the complicated end, but I've never been able to figure out what technology underlies the VPS offerings. I help out a friend on a Verio VPS that reports itself as FreeBSD 4.7 w/ a kernel config file named VKERN. There's some concept of a virtual root, a command named 'virtual' works a bit like sudo does for credentials, and there's otherwise an odd mix of it's all my machine and it's a shared server. Is/was there some proprietary virtualization technology in the 4.x days? Is it still alive and kicking somewhere? Anyone have any insights into how these VPS products were built? Thanks, g. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
JohnCompanies and RootBSD (was Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?)
* Maxim Khitrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-06-18 22:37:13+]: Is anyone here using RootBSD? I am using both RootBSD and JohnCompanies. I'm currently with JohnCompanies. Overall, it's been a positive experience, though I wish they offered FreeBSD 7. Beta testing for it was supposed to begin last month, but so far no news. Agreed. JC has been fine so far, and I asked them to include me in their FreeBSD 7 beta testing when it opens up. I don't think they have a schedule posted for when that will start. I started out at RootBSD on 6.2, and when FreeBSD 7 was first offered by them (about a month ago), they were nice enough to setup a 7.0 VPS for me, and give me a liberal amount of time for me to move my data over from my 6.2 VPS. My main concern is disk space; I have 2GB for ~$26 per month. This too is my only gripe about JohnCompanies. For $29 a month, I only get a VPS with 2GB of space -- and they don't allow you to add more diskpace unless you upgrade to a higher ($49/month) plan. Contrast that with RootBSD, where I pay $19 a month and I get 10GB of space. On the JC server, one can easily fill up that 2GB by building various ports (I did it by running cd /usr/ports/graphics/ImageMagick; make install). The RootBSD box comes with 10GB of space which is more than enough to build almost any port. I am sticking with both for now, only because JC reliability/uptime is purported to be excellent. Granted, I've not had any hardware or connectivity issues with either provider yet, so I've not yet experienced any serious problems firsthand. I should also add that they both have excellent customer service and response times, I've been pleasantly surprised with how good the support from both places are. hth, Thomas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do they do their VPS product? [was Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?]
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:29 PM, George Hartzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sahil Tandon writes: Maxim Khitrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently with JohnCompanies. Overall, it's been a positive experience, though I wish they offered FreeBSD 7. Beta testing for it was supposed to begin last month, but so far no news. +1 for JC. The tech support and availability is unparalleled. Satisfied customer for over three years. Seeing JC advertise a FreeBSD VPS product reminded me of an itch I've never been able to scratch. I know about jails at the simple end, and I know about VMware at the complicated end, but I've never been able to figure out what technology underlies the VPS offerings. I'm not sure about FreeBSD 4.x, but with the more recent versions, the solutions I've seen were using jails, Xen, or VMWare. I tried running FreeBSD using Parallels a while back and didn't get very far. JC is using Jails. An easy way to tell is if you run 'ifconfig' and don't see the loopback address (127.0.0.1). This is a restriction of the jails system. Another hint is if you run 'mount' and see that the device mounted as / doesn't exist in /dev. The main disadvantage of jails is that you cannot mess with the kernel, but otherwise I think it's actually a better solution, in my opinion. Less resources are wasted with jails than with a full VM. A Xen or VMWare server will behave exactly the same as a physical machine. - Max ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: JohnCompanies and RootBSD (was Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?)
It might be nice if the RootBSD people answered their email inquiries, i know they have lost customers, me for one for not answering a simple email On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 13:35 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Maxim Khitrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-06-18 22:37:13+]: Is anyone here using RootBSD? I am using both RootBSD and JohnCompanies. I'm currently with JohnCompanies. Overall, it's been a positive experience, though I wish they offered FreeBSD 7. Beta testing for it was supposed to begin last month, but so far no news. Agreed. JC has been fine so far, and I asked them to include me in their FreeBSD 7 beta testing when it opens up. I don't think they have a schedule posted for when that will start. I started out at RootBSD on 6.2, and when FreeBSD 7 was first offered by them (about a month ago), they were nice enough to setup a 7.0 VPS for me, and give me a liberal amount of time for me to move my data over from my 6.2 VPS. My main concern is disk space; I have 2GB for ~$26 per month. This too is my only gripe about JohnCompanies. For $29 a month, I only get a VPS with 2GB of space -- and they don't allow you to add more diskpace unless you upgrade to a higher ($49/month) plan. Contrast that with RootBSD, where I pay $19 a month and I get 10GB of space. On the JC server, one can easily fill up that 2GB by building various ports (I did it by running cd /usr/ports/graphics/ImageMagick; make install). The RootBSD box comes with 10GB of space which is more than enough to build almost any port. I am sticking with both for now, only because JC reliability/uptime is purported to be excellent. Granted, I've not had any hardware or connectivity issues with either provider yet, so I've not yet experienced any serious problems firsthand. I should also add that they both have excellent customer service and response times, I've been pleasantly surprised with how good the support from both places are. hth, Thomas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?
Seeing the question: Is anyone here using RootBSD? At 10:55 AM +0700 6/19/08, OutBackDingo wrote: I was going to go with them for their XEN based hosting, but i sent them an email, asking a couple questions, they never replied, so went with Verio instead I notice the rootbsd guys did a major web-site upgrade at the end of May. They also have a recent news-item saying: Friday, June 13th, 2008 - Unfortunately we had a programming problem on part of our website. Messages sent through the 'contact' form have not been received. This is now fixed. - If you have sent us a message and not received a response, please contact us again. We apologize for the inconvenience and promise we weren't just trying to ignore you. Obviously this is too late to help OutBackDingo, but if someone else is waiting for email from them, you might want to try to contact them again. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Instituteor [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?
At 10:37 PM -0400 6/18/08, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:27 PM, cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:31:31 +1000 Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for somebody to host some web sites for me. Ideally I'd like a complete machine, but a jail would do too. I can find plenty of Linux-based offerings, but the only one I can find with FreeBSD is in Germany and requires me to be resident in Germany. Can anybody point me to one that I, as an Australian resident, can use? Here's a list of FreeBSD-based hosters: http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/isp.html Is anyone here using RootBSD? I recently signed up for a Xen VPS setup at RootBSD. It seems to be working fine, at least for what I want out of it. I'm using it as a hot-spare, off-site backup for a service that I run, so what I'm doing is probably much less demanding than what most people would want from it. But so far I've been able to set things up the way I want, and it's worked fine. My biggest problem so far is that I haven't had enough spare time to work on it! I have no idea if they would take customers from outside the US, but they have been pretty responsive to questions I have sent to them via email. I see they've updated their site since I signed up: http://www.rootbsd.net/ I'm currently with JohnCompanies. Overall, it's been a positive experience, though I wish they offered FreeBSD 7. Beta testing for it was supposed to begin last month, but so far no news. My Xen VPS is setup with FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. When I signed up, they were just starting to try Xen-based setups instead of jails. It looks like they've officially rolled that out as a service to everyone. My main concern is disk space; I have 2GB for ~$26 per month. For the same price at RootBSD you could get almost eight times as much. The question is how reliable are they? I can't find any information on their site about where the data center is or the exact system specifications. Machines are located in two different datacenters in Raleigh, NC (or at least, that's what they told me!). In my case, I just wanted a machine located far enough away from Troy, NY that any problem which took out my office machine would not take out my off-site machine. North Carolina sounded far enough away to me! At the moment, my machine has been up for 35 days, and at that time the reason it went down was because I rebooted it after making some changes. I've had the system for maybe two months, and haven't had any problems with it. Remember though, I haven't been pushing it all that much. Basically do automatic backups to it at night, and then may ssh into it to test a few things a week. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Instituteor [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?
Skiltech.com is my host, they do jailed for a good price -- depends on traffic and space requirements -- and do colocation. We're paying $400/mo for a machine we have full system access to, plus 24/7 tech for free and nightly backups for up to 7 days for access, DB for 30. They run fBSD 6.3 right now, I believe. Good company, small - owned by one person - and very, very reliable. -- Ryan I'm looking for somebody to host some web sites for me. Ideally I'd like a complete machine, but a jail would do too. I can find plenty of Linux-based offerings, but the only one I can find with FreeBSD is in Germany and requires me to be resident in Germany. Can anybody point me to one that I, as an Australian resident, can use? Feel free to reply to me personally and blow your own trumpet if you want. Please also note that I'm not subscribed to these lists, so please don't reply only to the list. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. -- Ryan Coleman Photo Editor, D3sports.com Owner, Pictureprints.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for somebody to host some web sites for me. Ideally I'd like a complete machine, but a jail would do too. I can find plenty of Linux-based offerings, but the only one I can find with FreeBSD is in Germany and requires me to be resident in Germany. Can anybody point me to one that I, as an Australian resident, can use? Feel free to reply to me personally and blow your own trumpet if you want. Please also note that I'm not subscribed to these lists, so please don't reply only to the list. Try http://clearancerack.ca They have cheap dedicated servers. They support FreeBSD, and they are in Canada :D ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:31:31 +1000 Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for somebody to host some web sites for me. Ideally I'd like a complete machine, but a jail would do too. I can find plenty of Linux-based offerings, but the only one I can find with FreeBSD is in Germany and requires me to be resident in Germany. Can anybody point me to one that I, as an Australian resident, can use? Here's a list of FreeBSD-based hosters: http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/isp.html I've recently switched to KIONIC.COM: http://www.kionic.com/ but only for simple web hosting (no jails). They may offer jails too... Service is excellent so far. ;) Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:27 PM, cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:31:31 +1000 Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for somebody to host some web sites for me. Ideally I'd like a complete machine, but a jail would do too. I can find plenty of Linux-based offerings, but the only one I can find with FreeBSD is in Germany and requires me to be resident in Germany. Can anybody point me to one that I, as an Australian resident, can use? Here's a list of FreeBSD-based hosters: http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/isp.html Is anyone here using RootBSD? I'm currently with JohnCompanies. Overall, it's been a positive experience, though I wish they offered FreeBSD 7. Beta testing for it was supposed to begin last month, but so far no news. My main concern is disk space; I have 2GB for ~$26 per month. For the same price at RootBSD you could get almost eight times as much. The question is how reliable are they? I can't find any information on their site about where the data center is or the exact system specifications. - Max ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?
Maxim Khitrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently with JohnCompanies. Overall, it's been a positive experience, though I wish they offered FreeBSD 7. Beta testing for it was supposed to begin last month, but so far no news. +1 for JC. The tech support and availability is unparalleled. Satisfied customer for over three years. -- Sahil Tandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?
I was going to go with them for their XEN based hosting, but i sent them an email, asking a couple questions, they never replied, so went with Verio instead Is anyone here using RootBSD? I'm currently with JohnCompanies. Overall, it's been a positive experience, though I wish they offered FreeBSD 7. Beta testing for it was supposed to begin last month, but so far no news. My main concern is disk space; I have 2GB for ~$26 per month. For the same price at RootBSD you could get almost eight times as much. The question is how reliable are they? I can't find any information on their site about where the data center is or the exact system specifications. - Max ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
