FreeBSD Hosting/Shared/VPS etc...

[nocentis]

Looking for servers FreeBSD vps with the price to $ 15 per month, what do you recommend?

[vivek]

I'm not sure about prices (most start with $20 to $30 for basic package). I've used johncompanies in the past and they are really good.
http://www.johncompanies.com/jc_bsd.html
http://www.rootbsd.net/

[aragon]

www.joinvps.com

[Nightweaver]

I've been using http://www.johncompanies.com for a couple of years now. They are really good and not expensive at all.

[NQhost]

Hello,
Also please check our website: FreeBSD VPS (http://nqhost.com/freebsd-vps.html).

In additional to "normal" tariffs FreeBSD can be installed at Low Cost VPS (http://nqhost.com/cheap-vps.html) packages.

[nbari]

I have been searching and test lot of providers that support FreeBSD, so far I can only recommend 4 of them:

the 3 of them offer access to a terminal via VNC so you can reinstall the OS if you want

1: http://arpnetworks.com/ more for advancer users (extreme slow email support) on this I installed a VPS with zfs
2. yisp.nl currently running a shell server with them (sign.io) [ no FreeBSD - Mod. ]
3. http://www.xensmart.co.uk/hvmplans.php after paying you get all running perfect including the VNC access.
4. http://www.vpsfarm.com/ you pay for what you use.

I couldn't test http://nqhost.com/ I wrote to this guys and telling them that I wanted to host sign.io (http://sign.io) inside a jail, but they were scared knowing that ssh was going to be open and didn't want me to host with them.

There are many other providers, but unfortunately are more interested on making quick money overselling the services that really providing a good solution.

[Markort]

http://joinvps.com
VPS-3

[madonal]

www.ixwebhosting.com .. good, cheap, reliable!

[ no FreeBSD - Mod. ]

[SirDice]

Was looking for something myself and found http://www.tilaa.nl/

No idea how good they are but it looks quite cheap.

[nekoexmachina]

Hello, forum!
Im looking now for maximum-stable and high-availability hosting, based preferably on OpenBSD.
Any suggestions or opinions?

As for me, http://bsdvm.com; http://arpnetworks.com and http://www.rootbsd.net look very interesting. has anyone used them?

[gordon@]

I have a rootbsd host. It works quite nicely. They are supportive of the community as well. I don't know about the other 2.

[gkontos]

I use rootbsd VPS for a year now. I am very satisfied with the service.

[z3R0]

Hi,

I'm looking for a good FreeBSD web host. What do you guys recommend?

SSH access and ability to install ports a plus.

Thanks,

z3r0

[gordon@]

I've used a rootbsd.net VPS for over a year now. It's quite stable and I've been happy with it. The company also supports the FreeBSD community.

[SirDice]

20911
9640

[DutchDaemon]

20911
9640

Merged all of them together ... & Stickyfied.

[mzmzmz]

anyone has feedback for this vps providers?
http://nqhost.com
http://www.tilaa.nl

Thanks in advance.

[osman]

Mostly they provide FreeBSD jail as VPS or anyone offering XEN based?

And anybody knows if openvpn can be installed in jail based FreeBSD VPS? like the openvz has issue with tun/tap and iptables.

I will need a VPS to install openvpn and will need to do NAT.


Regards
usman

[gordon@]

Mostly they provide FreeBSD jail as VPS or anyone offering XEN based?

And anybody knows if openvpn can be installed in jail based FreeBSD VPS? like the openvz has issue with tun/tap and iptables.

I will need a VPS to install openvpn and will need to do NAT.


Regards
usman

RootBSD is a Xen solution.

[drhowarddrfine]

ixwebhosting and yisp do not offer FreeBSD.

[adjusted - Mod.]

[z3R0]

I'm definitely looking at rootBSD though I'm looking to bring the $20 monthly down.

I've used a rootbsd.net VPS for over a year now. It's quite stable and I've been happy with it. The company also supports the FreeBSD community.

Does anyone recommend Sheer Hosting? http://www.sheerwebhost.com/freebsd.htm

Thanks!

[vivek]

FreeBSD vps with ipv6 - http://www.verio.com/web-hosting/freebsd-vps/
Yahoo webhosting with shared hosting ftp+php+perl+mysql only but no root or shell access - http://business.yahoo.com/webhosting/details (they don't say FreeBSD but I've talked with their support and they confirmed it FreeBSD 4.x UNIX)

[roddierod]

I've been using these guys for my personal stuff for the last 2 years:

http://www.pairlite.com/

FreeBSD 7.x
ssh access
ftp uploads
5 MySQL dbs, PHP, Python, Perl
50GB per month


They are owned by http://www.pair.com/ who offer VPN, Co-Location, etc. Also running FreeBSD.

[fwaggle]

Thought I'd chime in:

ARP Networks are pretty good - server is solid in terms of crashing, but their network drops every so often (I have nagios on it that frequently complains about five hosts in five DCs simultaneously, so I'm guessing it's their network) and while the support can be less-than-instant I've never been tearing my hair out waiting for them. Oh, they have native IPv6 too, if that's your thing.

I'm also running FreeBSD 8.2 on a Linode, and it's been fantastic. No v6, but it's been pretty solid under low-load. I'm about to fire up another one and flog it, to see if it barfs chunks or not... cperciva@ (and I'm guessing some others?) has done a ton of work on Xen-PV stuff for AWS, which Linode has benefited from significantly.

Both start at $20/mo for pretty reasonable quotas.

Oh, since I mentioned it, AWS' free tier isn't too bad, depending on what you want to do with it. The I/O quota is pretty low (I hit it enough to get charged 1~3c each month, which they then cancel because I'm guessing I'd be costing them money to collect it at that point), and IIRC there's been periods where performance is less than stellar but it can work out pretty cheap depending on what you actually want from it.

[Carpetsmoker]

http://signet.nl
They offer quality business-oriented services.

[abonk]

I tried FreeBSD with KVM (for my Plone site), so interesting .. :). This provider is a newcomer http://pyramidserver.com/.. so far so good.

[thuglife]

FreeBSD on rackspace (http://feedback.rackspacecloud.com/forums/71021-product-feedback/suggestions/989519-create-a-freebsd-image?tracking_code=56489758b13ce235a65e7188c43261 d6).

Status just got updated:
FreeBSD is coming soon.

Spead the word. :)

[rainer_d]

I was renting a dedicated server from http://www.ip-exchange.de to run my FreeBSD server.
Recently (after 10 years), I switched to a KVM provided by http://www.hetzner.de (64bit, 2GB RAM, 160GB disk).
I save 75% on monthly charges.
The only downside is that for KVMs they don't offer IPV6 (yet).

They advertise FreeBSD as available OS, but the shopping-cart doesn't offer it as a choice.
Just choose the rescue system instead. It takes about 10-20 minutes after the purchase and the system is ready. You can then login to their control-panel, boot the FreeBSD rescue-system and run their automated installer which installs a fresh FreeBSD in 5 minutes.

Then, you can install ports etc.

[Ben]

www.edis.at

[cbrace]

I see that this Dutch hosting company is now offering VPS with FreeBSD (v8.2), from €10/month: https://www.transip.nl/vps/prijzen-en-bestellen/. Perhaps of interest to people in the Netherlands and possibly elsewhere?

[Carpetsmoker]

TransIP Doesn't just provide FreeBSD VPS, the entire company runs on FreeBSD :)

[fefaya]

I use hostigation, kvm based.
$3/month for 128MB of RAM

[gkontos]

I was renting a dedicated server from http://www.ip-exchange.de to run my FreeBSD server.
Recently (after 10 years), I switched to a KVM provided by http://www.hetzner.de (64bit, 2GB RAM, 160GB disk).
I save 75% on monthly charges.
The only downside is that for KVMs they don't offer IPV6 (yet).

They advertise FreeBSD as available OS, but the shopping-cart doesn't offer it as a choice.
Just choose the rescue system instead. It takes about 10-20 minutes after the purchase and the system is ready. You can then login to their control-panel, boot the FreeBSD rescue-system and run their automated installer which installs a fresh FreeBSD in 5 minutes.

Then, you can install ports etc.

Can this be real ???

http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produktmatrix-ex/

[gkontos]

Can this be real ???

http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produktmatrix-ex/

Apparently not!

It seems that they have a shortage on IPs (good luck trying to get some)
They also don't allow you to put you NIC in promiscuous mode.

[may]

$35: http://tinykvm.com/

Good service, good support, good machines. Only been with them a few days thus far, trying to see how much web serving I can squeeze out of 128mb of RAM. ;)

[geodni]

There is www.online.net also known as "dedibox" in France starting at 14.99€/month, I used this service since 3 years whithout any problem Intel Core 2 Duo with 3GB of RAM and two 500GB of SATA2 hard drives geom mirrored under FreeBSD 7.2.

[SirDice]

anyone has feedback for this vps providers?
http://nqhost.com
http://www.tilaa.nl
I can for Tilaa now. I just created one.

After creating an account you need to create a new VPS. This will take you to an order form where you can choose the size of VPS you want. Payment was easy using iDeal (Mastercard, Visa and American Express also accepted). Few minutes later things where set up.

I thought the initial order would automatically start the installation of my operating system of choice (FreeBSD obviously :e) but this wasn't the case. After waiting about half an hour my VPS was still "queued". Turns out you need to create a new 'order' to start the installation. Ten minutes later I was able to login using the webbased serial console.

The default install creates one large root filesystem but so far everything just works 'out of the box'.

Ordered on a friday night, half drunk. Yes, I give these guys the thumbs up :beergrin

[Martillo1]

TransIP Doesn't just provide FreeBSD VPS, the entire company runs on FreeBSD :)

Unfortunately for me, their web page is only in Dutch, no English at all. I have seen the list of supported OS and liked it.

[may]

Via LowEndBox - FreeBSD & IPV6 only (jails): http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/vds6-1-95-128mb-freebsd-ipv6-only-vps-in-germany/

[rblon]

I can recommend pcextreme.nl, they offer KVM-based VPS for 4 euro (excl VAT) per month.

I was wondering if someone knows a VPS host in the UK with similar pricing (only one I can find is Exonetric, but that is using Jails)?

[JackOfAllTrades]

I was renting a dedicated server from http://www.ip-exchange.de to run my FreeBSD server.
Recently (after 10 years), I switched to a KVM provided by http://www.hetzner.de (64bit, 2GB RAM, 160GB disk).
I save 75% on monthly charges.
The only downside is that for KVMs they don't offer IPV6 (yet).

They advertise FreeBSD as available OS, but the shopping-cart doesn't offer it as a choice.
Just choose the rescue system instead. It takes about 10-20 minutes after the purchase and the system is ready. You can then login to their control-panel, boot the FreeBSD rescue-system and run their automated installer which installs a fresh FreeBSD in 5 minutes.

Then, you can install ports etc.

I recently bought the smallest package VQ 7 and I can recommend it. Simple setup.

[rblon]

I was wondering if someone knows a VPS host in the UK with similar pricing (only one I can find is Exonetric, but that is using Jails)?

Using now thehosthouse.co.uk. Seems to work all fine and can't beat the price: 3 pounds per month using a discount coupon that I found online.

[sappi]

I'm currently buying FreeBSD Jails from http://vds6.net/
I started with their IPv6 only VDS offer you can't go wrong with - 0.95$/month and recently got their new IPv4&IPv6 VDS.
Not so many BSD hosts our there. Everybody's stuck with linux.

[folivora]

I have used http://tilaa.nl. Pretty good stuff.