Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?

2008-06-21 Thread Julian Stacey
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

Re: JohnCompanies and RootBSD (was Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?)

2008-06-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
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

Re: How do they do their VPS product? [was Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?]

2008-06-20 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
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

Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?

2008-06-19 Thread Bob Martin
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

Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?

2008-06-19 Thread Steve Lalonde
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

Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?

2008-06-19 Thread Charles Trevor
+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

Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?

2008-06-19 Thread Patrick C
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

How do they do their VPS product? [was Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?]

2008-06-19 Thread George Hartzell
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

Re: How do they do their VPS product? [was Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?]

2008-06-19 Thread OutBackDingo
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

JohnCompanies and RootBSD (was Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?)

2008-06-19 Thread thomas
* 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

Re: How do they do their VPS product? [was Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?]

2008-06-19 Thread Maxim Khitrov
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

Re: JohnCompanies and RootBSD (was Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?)

2008-06-19 Thread OutBackDingo
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

Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?

2008-06-19 Thread Garance A Drosihn
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

Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?

2008-06-19 Thread Garance A Drosihn
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,

FreeBSD based web hosting?

2008-06-18 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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,

Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?

2008-06-18 Thread Ryan Coleman
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

Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?

2008-06-18 Thread Schiz0
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

Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?

2008-06-18 Thread cpghost
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

Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?

2008-06-18 Thread Maxim Khitrov
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

Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?

2008-06-18 Thread Sahil Tandon
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.

Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?

2008-06-18 Thread OutBackDingo
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