On 2017-03-10 11:02, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 2017-03-10 15:50, nore...@z505.com wrote:
It's hard to find BSD hosting and digitalocean offers it as you can
install your own copy of any OS they have available.
Actually no, there are quite a lot that support FreeBSD VMs. Just last
night I found the following:
* DigitalOcean
* Vultr
* Atlantic.Net
* RootBSD
* Cloudsigma
* Amazon AWS
I meant freebsd managed shared hosting.
Linux is f**King massive marketshare... absolutely astounding.
I love bsd, but here is my famous quote that people will hate me for
"Linux is everywhere. Bsd is nowhere."
Indeed you mentioned a few hosts but compared to linux, that's
absolutely nothing :-)
An update to my above famous quote:
"Linux is everywhere. Bsd is nowhere. I hope this changes."
Much more positive outlook and friendly and less flamewar ish.
The issue with these services is that you have to manage your own
server
:) That is exactly what I was looking for. I have different clients
running different versions of WordPress etc. The simple cPanel style
management (some web management interface) can't cater for such
situations.
I'd love to manage 10 servers, I just find it takes away from my
programming and other life tasks..
The amount of time updating some retarded old buggy php version or OS
version that keeps coming out every few hours, takes lots of time... I
don't envy web hosting companies that do patches every other
day/second/millisecond.
Then you have to deal with security too: you will not have all the time
in the world to check that someone has broken in to your server, but a
shared host has hundreds of contractors/employees working for them ...
and also there is automatic backups issue. You have to set all this up
yourself.
I'd LOVE to run 10-20 freebsd servers myself, it's just the time. It's
equivalent to never taking your car in to the garage to get fixed, you
do all the work yourself. I love it - but takes too much time.
As for FreeBSD updates. That is another reason I switched to FreeBSD
several years ago. The base OS is clearly separated from user installed
software (unlike ALL Linux distros). Upgrading the base FreeBSD OS
(that's the kernel and base utilities and libraries) is an absolute
breeze, and I've never had it fail on me before. I've upgraded many
FreeBSD systems multiple times over the past 4+ years and every time it
worked flawlessly.
That's good news.
AFAIR at one time you could not upgrade openbsd, you had to fresh
install it and then copy all your files manually. I could be wrong about
this. It may have been Loonix that I was thinking about, I cannot
remember.
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