At DigitalOcean, our mission is to empower our customers by providing them with simple, reliable cloud infrastructure and we couldn’t be prouder to support customers and businesses like you developing world-class applications. We’re reaching out to let you know that we are phasing out our FreeBSD Droplet.
Starting July 1, 2022, FreeBSD Droplets will no longer be available. In order to simplify our cloud offerings and refocus our efforts on developing and maintaining distributions that our customers use most, we’re ending support for new FreeBSD Droplets.
Beginning June 1, 2022, you will no longer be able to create FreeBSD-based Droplets through the cloud control panel. You will still be able to create FreeBSD-based Droplets through the API until July 1, 2022, but after July 1, 2022, only legacy FreeBSD Droplets will remain on the platform.
Rest assured: Existing FreeBSD Droplets and FreeBSD Droplets created from May 1, 2022–July 1, 2022 will continue to work as usual despite these changes to our offerings.
You’ll also still be able to create Droplets using FreeBSD after July 1 by using DigitalOcean’s custom images feature to import a virtual disk image of FreeBSD OS. Custom images are free to upload and charged at $0.05 per GB per month to store.
I have a small FreeBSD 12.0 VPS hosted on vultr. It's been running for a bit more than a year and I've always been very happy with it, can recommend. I plan on renting some more on Vultr too, I don't see a reason to change for now. The support has been nice too and efficient too.
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Yeah, I read that today. I didn't understand it fully - but their webpage says that up to december, they had offered you to buy a licence from them that would give you the permission to use FreeBSD.
Thats to the gods, back in 1995 when I started to use FreeBSD, they weren't there yet to give or not give me the permission. Computers didn't require driver's licences back then.
I haven't received anything in that regard yet from digitalocean despite running several FreeBSD droplets... (and exclusively running FreeBSD droplets for several years now)
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BSDvm is shutting down its VPS and cloud hosting and will transform into BSD and Linux hosting review service
RootBSD should had the same syndrome of DO, since it became Netactuate.
What the heck, I just did a bunch of work on my servers this week.
But, wait, this looks like you can still run the instances, they just won't be providing the images. Isn't this just a "hey, do your own support" sort of thing, then?
It's some crockish workaround. The site they recommend doesn't even have a supported version of Freebsd 12. I'd go to AWS or GCP if I was interested in being a second-class citizen.What the heck, I just did a bunch of work on my servers this week.
But, wait, this looks like you can still run the instances, they just won't be providing the images. Isn't this just a "hey, do your own support" sort of thing, then?
Mine as well.Account deleted and purged.
Mine as well.
Both Amazon (a.k.a. AWS and EC2) and Google a.k.a. GCP) sell virtual FreeBSD machines. Both have a free "low usage" tier, where a small instance doesn't cost anything. I supposed Microsoft (Azure) also has it, but I haven't tried it.
Disclaimer: After a year of completely free usage, my Google virtual FreeBSD machine actually does cost a little bit. It turns out network traffic to and from some high-cost areas is not free, and I pay typically $0.08 per month for packets being sent by hackers which die in my firewall. So I do see regular charges.
Whatever works for you. I've had too many experiences like Sko's where the knee-jerk reaction whenever there's a problem is "install a supported OS and then we'll look into it" -- even when it's obviously a hardware problem like a bad HD.I like Digital Ocean enough to work on making the images work.
Whatever works for you. I've had too many experiences like Sko's where the knee-jerk reaction whenever there's a problem is "install a supported OS and then we'll look into it" -- even when it's obviously a hardware problem like a bad HD.
I made extremely good experiences with Tilaa.com: https://www.tilaa.com/I am looking for others providers that have a reliable history in supporting FreeBSD, please any suggestion and advice is very welcomed!
Thumbs up for Tilaa from me too. Although I did switch VPS providers (I'm with TransIP now), it wasn't because of their services (or lack thereof). Would definitely recommend checking them out.It works extremely well, their support is awesome etc.