I used Vultr for personal stuff (mix of Linux and OpenBSD) for years and
up until recently was pretty happy. The last year or two I've been using
them very heavily for work and it has been a nightmare. Frequent
downtime, poor disk performance, weird disk locking issues, lack of
available resources in their data centers, pretty much any cloud issue you
can think of, I've hit (and we're only talking a couple dozen servers
across their regions, not a huge footprint by cloud scale).
arpnetworks has been great for me with openbsd for me for a long time.
After my vultr expereince, I'll be moving my remaining personal stuff back
to arpnetworks (that's what I get for chasing a cheaper price).
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John C. Vernaleo, Ph.D.
www.netpurgatory.com
j...@netpurgatory.com
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On Tue, 22 Apr 2025, Charles Sprickman wrote:
I'm still using Vultr without any real issues.
They have FreeBSD and OpenBSD available as one-click installs:
https://i.imgur.com/uLJlziD.png
I really haven't had any issues with them, and the pricing is really nice for little
projects where you just need a server "out there" and don't want to
spend more than $4/month. Performance is fine (I do have a few VPSs that do
some web hosting). The only downside is that they do seem to have frequent
maintenance events, but they are very good about sending advance notice (and of
course, it indicates some level of competency if they're keeping up with
updates/fixes to the hosting and networking stuff).
Charles
On Apr 21, 2025, at 3:39 PM, jpb <j...@jimby.name> wrote:
Hi Folks,
I'm doing my once-a-decade survey on hosting providers. Currently
using Netactuate (old RootBSD) and I'm happy with them, but they're a
bit pricey.
I'm looking to compare pricing on a virtual private server (virtual
server, not bare metal) with 4GB RAM and 60GB disk. These are rough
numbers - I'll consider both requirements up some or down some.
MUST be willing to let me run FreeBSD, even -CURRENT.
I'm currently aware of:
Netactuate
Panix
HiVelocity
Arp Networks
and
OpenBSD Amsterdam (not pursuing since they are OpenBSD only)
What else is out there ?
Thanks Everyone!
Jim B.
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