Mayuresh <mayur...@acm.org> wrote: > On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 11:35:03AM +0000, Christopher Pinon wrote: > > > > This said, Vultr is no doubt a safer choice for NetBSD, because a number > > > > of us have run NetBSD on Vultr with no issues. > > > > > > Oh certainly. I can vouch for this as well. However Hetzner's > > > configuration for nearly same price is quite better > > > > > > storage: 10G vs 20G > > > RAM: 512M vs 2G > > > traffic: .50T vs 20T > > > price: $2.5 vs Euro 2.49 (approx $2.79) > > > > > > Thanks for clarifying this well. I am inclined to try their service out > > > now. > > > > If you do try, please let us know it goes! :-) > > I did try this out and it's working pretty fine. Deleted if after some > testing. Thinking whether I should migrate from Vultr. > > On my request they immediately added NetBSD to their collection of isos > and it installed fine as well. > > Vultr allows you to directly boot from an iso, whereas at Hetzner you have > to first instantiate a server using a pre-definied Linux image, then > attach iso to it and then reboot to your iso. A bit unnecessary, but ok as > it's one time. > > On the web console the keyboard did not work reliably - e.g. up, down > keys, but there are alternatives in netbsd installer. Later even normal > alphabetic keys didn't work, but after restarting everything they started > working fine. I think vultr's console was relatively smoother. But these > things aren't a deal breaker, being one time. > > They do not have location servers to test latencies. One has to > temporarily provision the servers and check latency - this is what they > advised. Locations are Nuremberg, Falkenstein and Helsinki. > > Overall the support service was very responsive.
Thanks for the update. Yes, it sounds like installing NetBSD at Vultr is a bit easier than at Hetzner, but once it's installed, there probably isn't a significant difference. In my experience, a US or UK keyboard works best for the web console of a control panel for a KVM VPS, but perhaps the problem that you had was due to something else. C.
