Re: virtual colocation? Amazon/cloud?

2018-06-21 Thread Maximilian Pichler
I've had a very good experience with the Netherlands-based transip. Their pricing is competitive (especially for storage if you don't want do deal with anything S3-like), they are reliable, and have also been good at keeping up with new OpenBSD releases: https://www.transip.eu/vps/openbsd/ On

Re: virtual colocation? Amazon/cloud?

2018-06-15 Thread Steve Fairhead
On 15/06/2018 00:12, Fred wrote: I like mythic beasts[1] - they have data centres in Cambridge and London - they are technically literate and both my OpenBSD VM are with them. Cheers Fred [1]https://www.mythic-beasts.com/ Aha. Looks interesting. Thanks. Steve

Re: virtual colocation? Amazon/cloud?

2018-06-15 Thread Michael Plura
Hej Steve, I would recommend Henning Brauer (he is developing pf and OpenBGPD) and his "BS Web Services" (BSWS) located in germany (so probably no NSA-Backdoor). A well known OpenBSD-Developer doing ISP cant be wrong. :) http://www.bsws.de/en/ Michael Am Thu, 14 Jun 2018 21:50:00 +0100

Re: virtual colocation? Amazon/cloud?

2018-06-15 Thread Florian Obser
On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 08:09:40AM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: > On 15/06/18 06:50, Steve Fairhead wrote: > > I gather Amazon are not quite there yet re OpenBSD virtual machines. Can > > anyone here provide a cluebat as to prospects or alternatives? I don't > > want to move away from OpenBSD -

Re: virtual colocation? Amazon/cloud?

2018-06-15 Thread Craig Skinner
Hiya Steve, On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 21:50:00 +0100 Steve Fairhead wrote: > ... make the hardware somebody else's problem Have you considered dedicated hosting, where you rent a real server? Various people have had success with these firms: Pulsant (Edinburgh) IOMart (Glasgow) ByteMark (York)

Re: virtual colocation? Amazon/cloud?

2018-06-14 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
For BSD virtual servers I've had no problems with Arp Networks (https://www.arpnetworks.com/), going back several years now. I use them for FreeBSD hosts of my own, and at $WORK we use them to host OpenBSD. They even worked with me to get a Plan 9 server running. Their tech support gang is

Re: virtual colocation? Amazon/cloud?

2018-06-14 Thread Fred
On 06/14/18 21:50, Steve Fairhead wrote: Yes, I have consulted the interwebs. But, forsooth, the interwebs have forsaken me... I've been running various colocated OpenBSD boxen for a long time (19 years?). The hardware is mine; the phat pipe I pay for, in some aircon'ed warehouse somewhere

Re: virtual colocation? Amazon/cloud?

2018-06-14 Thread nacredata
I use Cloud Sigma for this devin -- contact info: http://nacredata.com/devin > On Jun 14, 2018, at 18:09, Stuart Longland wrote: > >> On 15/06/18 06:50, Steve Fairhead wrote: >> I gather Amazon are not quite there yet re OpenBSD virtual machines. Can >> anyone here provide a cluebat as to

Re: virtual colocation? Amazon/cloud?

2018-06-14 Thread Stuart Longland
On 15/06/18 06:50, Steve Fairhead wrote: > I gather Amazon are not quite there yet re OpenBSD virtual machines. Can > anyone here provide a cluebat as to prospects or alternatives? I don't > want to move away from OpenBSD - it's my security blanket... and I love > it *so* much... I use Vultr for

Re: virtual colocation? Amazon/cloud?

2018-06-14 Thread Paco Esteban
On Thu, 14 Jun 2018, Steve Fairhead wrote: > I gather Amazon are not quite there yet re OpenBSD virtual machines. Can > anyone here provide a cluebat as to prospects or alternatives? I don't want > to move away from OpenBSD - it's my security blanket... and I love it *so* > much... I guess any

virtual colocation? Amazon/cloud?

2018-06-14 Thread Steve Fairhead
Yes, I have consulted the interwebs. But, forsooth, the interwebs have forsaken me... I've been running various colocated OpenBSD boxen for a long time (19 years?). The hardware is mine; the phat pipe I pay for, in some aircon'ed warehouse somewhere in southern England... never been... (I'm