Re: OpenBSD dedicated hosting
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 12:01:46AM +0200, Gilles Chehade wrote: [...] I have then tried LayeredTech as suggested by someone on the list and I am very happy with it. The only negative point so far was that they advertised OpenBSD 3.x, and it turned out x really meant 5. I spent about an hour upgrading from OpenBSD 3.5 up to 3.9-stable. Ok I confess, I actually found that fun since I never did in-place upgrades ;) Not really. They are more than willing to install any version. You can even supply them with the iso, siteXX.tgz included.. Cheers. -- Thanos Tsouanas .: My Music: http://www.thanostsouanas.com/ http://thanos.sians.org/ .: Sians Music: http://www.sians.org/
Re: OpenBSD dedicated hosting
Hi, I had a OpenBSD box in http://rootr.net a couple years ago, and they offer good service. Now i had a account in http://geekisp.com Dave, the owner has excellent support and service, Regards. On 10/18/06, Bryan Irvine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.simpli.biz/ Is based in San Jose. I've been talking to them about hosting for me $59/mo for a full-root server. On 9/16/06, Gilles Chehade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi misc@, I am looking for companies that provide OpenBSD-powered dedicated hosting. Currently, I am being hosted by a french company which turned out to be as incompetent as can be, and I am willing to switch as soon as possible (preferably before the 25th of September). I have google-d a bit and found out a few companies, but its hard to know in advance which are competent and which will drive me into depression. So I'm turning to you, if you know of companies that do good work, that aren't too expensive and that provide OpenBSD based services, please mail me off-list so I can start digging their offers. Thanks a lot people ;) -- --- BSD - Unix simplicity. Francisco Valladolid Hdez. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenBSD dedicated hosting
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gilles Chehade Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 12:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: OpenBSD dedicated hosting [...] I have then tried LayeredTech as suggested by someone on the list and I am very happy with it. The only negative point so far was that they advertised OpenBSD 3.x, and it turned out x really meant 5. I spent about an hour upgrading from OpenBSD 3.5 up to 3.9-stable. Ok I confess, I actually found that fun since I never did in-place upgrades ;) I'm running a box with LayeredTech too I also got and old version, but first thing I ordered a KVM/IP extender (30$ for 24h, but I had it much longer than that), sent their staff cdrom39.iso to burn and insert into the drive and did a clean fresh install of 3.9. Only problem I had was that on the hardware I have with them RAID_AUTOCONFIG hangs during boot. I tried to get my hands on identical hardware to test and debug but on mine it didn't hang. There is a patch floating around this list that most likely fixes that (no need for RAID_AUTOCONFIG to probe cd drives for RAID components, right?) but I can't test it now as the box is in heavy production. Any San Antonio Spurs' fans out there, you will know the place. :) ++ Gilles Mitja
Re: OpenBSD dedicated hosting
* Bill Traynor [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-10-18 16:25:08 -0400]: Check out Geekisp as well. It's one guy who offers many different OpenBSD options. http://www.geekisp.com I'll second the recomendation for GeekISP. I've been with them for a couple of years now and I have only good things to say. Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo
Re: OpenBSD dedicated hosting
On 9/16/06, Gilles Chehade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi misc@, I am looking for companies that provide OpenBSD-powered dedicated hosting. Currently, I am being hosted by a french company which turned out to be as incompetent as can be, and I am willing to switch as soon as possible (preferably before the 25th of September). I have google-d a bit and found out a few companies, but its hard to know in advance which are competent and which will drive me into depression. So I'm turning to you, if you know of companies that do good work, that aren't too expensive and that provide OpenBSD based services, please mail me off-list so I can start digging their offers. Thanks a lot people ;) Gilles, I recommend two dedicated hosting providers. Serverpronto, their tech's are extremely helpful. I requested to conduct my own OpenBSD installation. So they temporarily attached a cdrom, burned the latest boot image (which was 3.8 at the time) to a cd, and gave me 24 hours of access to an ip kvm for the install. Apart from the fact that I inherited a blacklisted ip address, I haven't had any problems in my ten months of service. http://serverpronto.com/ Also highly recommended is M5 Hosting, they have a great team working there, are very OpenBSD friendly, and knowledgeable. I remember exchanging a few emails with Mike (sales at m5hosting dot com) earlier this year when I was looking for a dedicated server solution for a client. They are a little more expensive but well worth it considering their high level of service and hardware. http://www.m5hosting.com/openbsd-dedicated-server.php -Luis
Re: OpenBSD dedicated hosting
Hi Steve My company/Me (Venture 37) offers dedicated OpenBSD hosting Colo aswell. Depending on your needs we can colo/host in a DC Brighton or in Telehouse in London. You can get my details from http://www.openbsd.org/support.html#United You might want to check out Henning Brauer's hosting company aswell. http://www.bsws.de/ Sevan -- The truth, the half-truth, and nothing like the truth. - Mark Brandon Read http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/?locale=en-gb
Re: OpenBSD dedicated hosting
http://www.simpli.biz/ Is based in San Jose. I've been talking to them about hosting for me $59/mo for a full-root server. On 9/16/06, Gilles Chehade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi misc@, I am looking for companies that provide OpenBSD-powered dedicated hosting. Currently, I am being hosted by a french company which turned out to be as incompetent as can be, and I am willing to switch as soon as possible (preferably before the 25th of September). I have google-d a bit and found out a few companies, but its hard to know in advance which are competent and which will drive me into depression. So I'm turning to you, if you know of companies that do good work, that aren't too expensive and that provide OpenBSD based services, please mail me off-list so I can start digging their offers. Thanks a lot people ;)
Re: OpenBSD dedicated hosting
On 10/18/06, Bryan Irvine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.simpli.biz/ Is based in San Jose. I've been talking to them about hosting for me $59/mo for a full-root server. Check out Geekisp as well. It's one guy who offers many different OpenBSD options. http://www.geekisp.com On 9/16/06, Gilles Chehade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi misc@, I am looking for companies that provide OpenBSD-powered dedicated hosting. Currently, I am being hosted by a french company which turned out to be as incompetent as can be, and I am willing to switch as soon as possible (preferably before the 25th of September). I have google-d a bit and found out a few companies, but its hard to know in advance which are competent and which will drive me into depression. So I'm turning to you, if you know of companies that do good work, that aren't too expensive and that provide OpenBSD based services, please mail me off-list so I can start digging their offers. Thanks a lot people ;)
Re: OpenBSD dedicated hosting
Bryan Irvine wrote: http://www.simpli.biz/ Is based in San Jose. I've been talking to them about hosting for me $59/mo for a full-root server. On 9/16/06, Gilles Chehade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi misc@, I am looking for companies that provide OpenBSD-powered dedicated hosting. Currently, I am being hosted by a french company which turned out to be as incompetent as can be, and I am willing to switch as soon as possible (preferably before the 25th of September). I have google-d a bit and found out a few companies, but its hard to know in advance which are competent and which will drive me into depression. So I'm turning to you, if you know of companies that do good work, that aren't too expensive and that provide OpenBSD based services, please mail me off-list so I can start digging their offers. Thanks a lot people ;) Just for the archives: I have found a company which seemed OpenBSD-friendly and very professional but it turned out they were *THE* pita. If you are about to order a box, that the company is located in Denmark, and that it matches /ea.ysp..dy/ , turn around and run ... They do not support OpenBSD even though they claim to (their automated install has kept delaying OpenBSD availability), their network is broken but they blame it on your ISP (even though all the ISP I have tried from several countries failed to reach them), their support was slow and unhelpful which sucks when it comes to fix issues you cannot fix yourself. I kept a backup of my pr tickets page because it will probably make me laugh in a few months when I forget about the money I threw down the toilet. I have then tried LayeredTech as suggested by someone on the list and I am very happy with it. The only negative point so far was that they advertised OpenBSD 3.x, and it turned out x really meant 5. I spent about an hour upgrading from OpenBSD 3.5 up to 3.9-stable. Ok I confess, I actually found that fun since I never did in-place upgrades ;) ++ Gilles
Re: OpenBSD dedicated hosting
Hosted Solutions based out of North Carolina mat offer what you need. They currently have data centers in Raleigh, Charlotte and Cary North Carolina. They are working on a fourth data center outside the state. Huge initiative to support opensource, very competent comany with some major customers in the carolinas, such as the Carolina Hurricanes Pro Hockey team and many more. Awesome support for Unix and Linux, specializing in Openbsd firewall setups. http://www.hostedsolutions.com/ On 9/16/06, Gilles Chehade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi misc@, I am looking for companies that provide OpenBSD-powered dedicated hosting. Currently, I am being hosted by a french company which turned out to be as incompetent as can be, and I am willing to switch as soon as possible (preferably before the 25th of September). I have google-d a bit and found out a few companies, but its hard to know in advance which are competent and which will drive me into depression. So I'm turning to you, if you know of companies that do good work, that aren't too expensive and that provide OpenBSD based services, please mail me off-list so I can start digging their offers. Thanks a lot people ;)
Re: OpenBSD dedicated hosting
Oops, maybe something went wrong at my last post :( Here is the missing wd0 line: wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: ExcelStor Technology J360 Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2006/09/21 22:50, Sven Wolf wrote: wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: ^ haven't noticed that before (no drive model listed) - do they have something to hide?!
Re: OpenBSD dedicated hosting
Hi Gilles, I've switched my Strato Power Server (dedicated server - http://www.strato.de/server/power/index.html) from Linux to OpenBSD 3.9. For more information read: http://www.dettus.net/openbsd_at_strato.txt And here is the dmesg of my Power Server: OpenBSD 3.9 (GENERIC) #617: Thu Mar 2 02:26:48 MST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz (GenuineIntel 686-class) 2.40 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,CNXT-ID real mem = 536387584 (523816K) avail mem = 482426880 (471120K) using 4278 buffers containing 26923008 bytes (26292K) of memory mainbus0 (root) bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(c0) BIOS, date 05/27/03, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfb330 apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown apm0: flags 70102 dobusy 1 doidle 1 pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf/0xdf84 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfde90/240 (13 entries) pcibios0: PCI Exclusive IRQs: 5 10 11 12 pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:31:0 (Intel 82371SB ISA rev 0x00) pcibios0: PCI bus #2 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc/0x8000 0xc8000/0x1000 cpu0 at mainbus0 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 Intel 82845 Host rev 0x04 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 Intel 82845 AGP rev 0x04 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 ppb1 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 Intel 82801BA AGP rev 0x05 pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 fxp0 at pci2 dev 6 function 0 Intel 8255x rev 0x08, i82559: irq 12, address 00:30:48:52:c9:fc inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82555 10/100 PHY, rev. 4 fxp1 at pci2 dev 7 function 0 Intel 8255x rev 0x08, i82559: irq 12, address 00:30:48:52:c9:fd inphy1 at fxp1 phy 1: i82555 10/100 PHY, rev. 4 vga1 at pci2 dev 8 function 0 ATI Rage XL rev 0x27 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 Intel 82801BA LPC rev 0x05 pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 Intel 82801BA IDE rev 0x05: DMA, channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 58644MB, 120103200 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 pciide0: channel 1 disabled (no drives) ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 Intel 82801BA SMBus rev 0x05: irq 5 iic0 at ichiic0 isa0 at ichpcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: spkr0 at pcppi0 lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7 lm0 at isa0 port 0x290/8: W83627HF npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16 pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pccom0: console pccom1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 biomask ef65 netmask ff65 ttymask ffe7 pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 root on wd0a rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302 Best regards, Sven Hi misc@, I am looking for companies that provide OpenBSD-powered dedicated hosting. Currently, I am being hosted by a french company which turned out to be as incompetent as can be, and I am willing to switch as soon as possible (preferably before the 25th of September). I have google-d a bit and found out a few companies, but its hard to know in advance which are competent and which will drive me into depression. So I'm turning to you, if you know of companies that do good work, that aren't too expensive and that provide OpenBSD based services, please mail me off-list so I can start digging their offers. Thanks a lot people ;)
Re: OpenBSD dedicated hosting
On 2006/09/21 22:50, Sven Wolf wrote: wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: ^ haven't noticed that before (no drive model listed) - do they have something to hide?!
Re: OpenBSD dedicated hosting
On 9/17/06, Gilles Chehade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi misc@, I am looking for companies that provide OpenBSD-powered dedicated hosting. Currently, I am being hosted by a french company which turned out to be as incompetent as can be, and I am willing to switch as soon as possible (preferably before the 25th of September). [snip] The search at http://calyx.com/about/ shows powered by OpenBSD. Their Dutch website http://www.calyx.net/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=17Itemid=46 shows OpenBSD sysjails as one ot their options for using a virtual server I never used calyx myself, just happen to use their OpenBSD ftp mirror once in a while ;) 220 ftp.calyx.nl FTP server (Version 6.6/OpenBSD) ready. Name (ftp.calyx.nl:adriaan): Adriaan
Re: OpenBSD dedicated hosting
The company i work for offers OpenBSD webhosting. You can check www.ipv4networks.com OpenBSD based hosting solutions. All unix servers are running OpenBSD and all services are distributed in different servers. Don't get scared by the numbers , those prices are in argentinian pesos , so you should divide those numbers by three, 1 u$s = 3.00 pesos$ Let me know if i can help with someting Regards, Marcos Laufer - Original Message - From: Gilles Chehade [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: misc@openbsd.org Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 8:52 PM Subject: OpenBSD dedicated hosting Hi misc@, I am looking for companies that provide OpenBSD-powered dedicated hosting. Currently, I am being hosted by a french company which turned out to be as incompetent as can be, and I am willing to switch as soon as possible (preferably before the 25th of September). I have google-d a bit and found out a few companies, but its hard to know in advance which are competent and which will drive me into depression. So I'm turning to you, if you know of companies that do good work, that aren't too expensive and that provide OpenBSD based services, please mail me off-list so I can start digging their offers. Thanks a lot people ;)
Re: OpenBSD dedicated hosting
On 9/16/06, Daniel Ouellet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gilles Chehade wrote: Hi misc@, I am looking for companies that provide OpenBSD-powered dedicated hosting. Currently, I am being hosted by a french company which turned out to be as incompetent as can be, and I am willing to switch as soon as possible (preferably before the 25th of September). Currently I use http://www.geekisp.com They use OpenBSD, and I have had zero complaints with their service. -j -- Try to do nothing for money that you wouldn't do for free. --Paul Krassner
Re: OpenBSD dedicated hosting
2006/9/18, Jared Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 9/16/06, Daniel Ouellet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gilles Chehade wrote: Hi misc@, I am looking for companies that provide OpenBSD-powered dedicated hosting. Currently, I am being hosted by a french company which turned out to be as incompetent as can be, and I am willing to switch as soon as possible (preferably before the 25th of September). Currently I use http://www.geekisp.com They use OpenBSD, and I have had zero complaints with their service. I recommend New York Internet. http://www.nyi.net Regards, -- Eduardo Alvarenga
Re: OpenBSD dedicated hosting
I do it too :) Gilles Chehade wrote: Hi misc@, I am looking for companies that provide OpenBSD-powered dedicated hosting. Currently, I am being hosted by a french company which turned out to be as incompetent as can be, and I am willing to switch as soon as possible (preferably before the 25th of September). I have google-d a bit and found out a few companies, but its hard to know in advance which are competent and which will drive me into depression. So I'm turning to you, if you know of companies that do good work, that aren't too expensive and that provide OpenBSD based services, please mail me off-list so I can start digging their offers. Thanks a lot people ;)
Re: OpenBSD dedicated hosting
edgarz wrote: I do it too :) Same answer: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscm=115846012811205w=2 Daniel
Re: OpenBSD dedicated hosting
On 16 Sep 2006 17:30:10 -0700, Randal L. Schwartz merlyn@stonehenge.com wrote: Gilles == Gilles Chehade [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gilles I am looking for companies that provide OpenBSD-powered dedicated Gilles hosting. Currently, I am being hosted by a french company which Gilles turned out to be as incompetent as can be, and I am willing to switch Gilles as soon as possible (preferably before the 25th of September). stonehenge.com has been on an openbsd-based dedicated box since april of 2002 at sprocketdata.com. You can ask me privately about details. I just dropped SprocketData after having a dedicated server there for about two years. They were really good at first, they helped me track down a bad Ethernet card (in their box) that was giving us problems. Fortunately they had two in the box and it was easy to switch to the other card. In the past year they kept having router problems with no end of excuses. After a 12+ hour power outage we had it and went elsewhere. Elsewhere does not support OpenBSD though.
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Jay == Jay Truesdale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jay In the past year they kept having router problems with no end of Jay excuses. After a 12+ hour power outage we had it and went Jay elsewhere. Elsewhere does not support OpenBSD though. Yes, I suffered those too. However, they're still in the 4 or 5 9's category, even with those outages, and for the price, it's a nice deal. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 merlyn@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
Re: OpenBSD dedicated hosting
My team offers it. I personally have been using OpenBSD since 2.3. We also are the only company that using OpenBSD web servers in an HSphere cluster. Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with your needs. The data center is in the states (Central Florida). Thanks, Aaron On 9/16/06, Gilles Chehade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi misc@, I am looking for companies that provide OpenBSD-powered dedicated hosting. Currently, I am being hosted by a french company which turned out to be as incompetent as can be, and I am willing to switch as soon as possible (preferably before the 25th of September). I have google-d a bit and found out a few companies, but its hard to know in advance which are competent and which will drive me into depression. So I'm turning to you, if you know of companies that do good work, that aren't too expensive and that provide OpenBSD based services, please mail me off-list so I can start digging their offers. Thanks a lot people ;)
Re: OpenBSD dedicated hosting
Gilles == Gilles Chehade [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gilles I am looking for companies that provide OpenBSD-powered dedicated Gilles hosting. Currently, I am being hosted by a french company which Gilles turned out to be as incompetent as can be, and I am willing to switch Gilles as soon as possible (preferably before the 25th of September). stonehenge.com has been on an openbsd-based dedicated box since april of 2002 at sprocketdata.com. You can ask me privately about details. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 merlyn@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
Re: OpenBSD dedicated hosting
Gilles Chehade wrote: Hi misc@, I am looking for companies that provide OpenBSD-powered dedicated hosting. Currently, I am being hosted by a french company which turned out to be as incompetent as can be, and I am willing to switch as soon as possible (preferably before the 25th of September). I have google-d a bit and found out a few companies, but its hard to know in advance which are competent and which will drive me into depression. So I'm turning to you, if you know of companies that do good work, that aren't too expensive and that provide OpenBSD based services, please mail me off-list so I can start digging their offers. Thanks a lot people ;) Do as you wish and you will find many that run OpenBSD for hosting. But if I may suggest, why don't you give it to: http://www.bsws.de/ You mush have eared of it for sure no? Is the person Henning Brauer right a bell for you? I would be hard press to say that you could find a company out there that would/could do a better job, or at a minimum, know what's under the hood! I think if you have the possibility to use some of the services of the same developers that give you OpenBSD, then I don't see why you shouldn't. You don't have to agree with me if you don't see it the same way, but why not? I never compare prices and frankly I wouldn't eiter, at a minimum you know what you would pay for and you would know it just work! Just a thought! Daniel
