FreeBSD Hosting/Shared/VPS etc.

[First_Law_of_Unix]

I use a cheap AWS instance.

When did AWS become cheap? ?
A 500MB ram FreeBSD shared VPS instance is like $20 / month I believe...

 

[GlitchyDot]

I am have a FreeBSD 13.2 on a https://contabo.com/de/storage-vps/ for EUR 5.35.

Wow, wish i noted this way before i got my VPS without FreeBSD. as im in EU - and your pricing !!! is very very good.I pay 7Euro a month for 100Gig hard drive space and and 8TB of traffic 2 cores and 8GB RAM but also i have ipv6. i dont remember DE language , but these extra like ssl etc - are free unless you dont want do it urself you have to pay right ?

 

[maucariapacom]

What is good and cheap VPS - FreeBSD?

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

AWS Lightsail has FreeBSD start from $5/mo

 

[maucariapacom]

When did AWS become cheap? ?
A 500MB ram FreeBSD shared VPS instance is like $20 / month I believe...

Mine using FreeBSD at AWS Lightsail, $12/mo (first 90 days free), i've got
2 GB Memory
2 vCPUs Processing
60 GB SSD Storage
3 TB Transfer

 

[6502]

Is this fixed price or you can be surprised by Amazon with additional cost?

 

[maucariapacom]

Is this fixed price or you can be surprised by Amazon with additional cost?

This is final price for me, no extra cost. static IP only charge while idle (not connected to any instance). if it's connected, it'll become free. Also 3TB is enough for me (i am using 3rd party dns and proxy to handle traffic)

 

[mro]

anybody customer at https://st-hosting.com/ssd-lxc-ipv6vserver?lang=en

 

[sko]

anybody customer at https://st-hosting.com/ssd-lxc-ipv6vserver?lang=en

Those are LXC containers, not vps/root-servers where you could run FreeBSD on.

 

[mro]

Those are LXC containers, not vps/root-servers where you could run FreeBSD on.

ah, thanks, https://st-hosting.com/ssd-kvm-ipv6root then.

 

[6502]

Somebody with experience with mvps.net ?

 

[ohreally]

Scaleway. Dedicated machines. Datacenters in Amsterdam and Paris. Cheapest under 9€ a month. FreeBSD is available for installation (13.3-RELEASE currently, but freebsd-update doesn't take long on a new machine). However, helpdesk doesn't know anything about FreeBSD. But if you're going to host your own server, you should master the basics already, and be able to find the rest elsewhere (like this forum).
https://console.online.net/en/order/server

 

[Cromulent]

I'm curious if there are any dedicated server providers that offer FreeBSD as a pre-installed image? All I can find at the moment is providers who offer it via IPMI or similar which I would like to avoid if possible. If there are none that offer that then second best option is one with a full IPMI console.

 

[Dereckson]

OVH, Scaleway, but my last server at Scaleway I installed it through IPMI to directly put FreeBSD 14.1, it was very smooth.

 

[nxjoseph]

Vultr offers FreeBSD 14.1 and 13.4 for both VPS and VDS. I have used Vultr FreeBSD VPS for like a month and it was good. I can't understand the billing page properly, though. You can access the machine over Vultr's site with VNC, just in case something goes wrong. If you meant bare metal, it doesn't provide FreeBSD machines.

 

[cracauer@]

Depends on how strict "dedicated" is. AWS offers easily consumable FreeBSD images.

 

[VladiBG]

 

[ralphbsz]

Depends on how strict "dedicated" is. AWS offers easily consumable FreeBSD images.

Also Google Cloud; those two I have used or am still using. They offer shared machines, perhaps not dedicated. Both have a "serial" console, not necessarily IPMI. VladiBG mentioned Microsoft Azure; Oracle Cloud also offers it, but IBM Cloud no longer does.

 

[cmoerz]

I can recommend Contabo. FreeBSD out of the box, the hypervisor underneath their VPS is proxmox. They also offer dedicated servers.

 

[DtxdF]

Lunanode.

 

[bjer]

I can recommend Contabo. FreeBSD out of the box, the hypervisor underneath their VPS is proxmox. They also offer dedicated servers.

Contabo has nice support for a variety of OS:es but can't recommend them - my VPS was down most of yesterday- came back in the evening but went down
again this morning - down for 16 hours now. They're blaming faulty SSD on the host. I cancelled my contract with them earlier today. This is the second time this has happened.

 

[ralphbsz]

I'm curious if there are any dedicated server providers that offer FreeBSD as a pre-installed image?

Serious question: Why a dedicated server? Typically, virtual servers are cheaper and more flexible.

 

[Cromulent]

Thank you all for the information. I really appreciate it!

 

[SirDice]

Moved the thread/posts to the existing "FreeBSD Hosting/Shared/VPS etc." thread.

 

[freezmi]

been using cheap 5-15EUR Linode instances for about 10 years now. I never noticed any downtime and never needed to open a ticket due to problems on their side. I'm extremely happy with their service.

the FreeBSD install process is not trivial, but they provide a good guide. make sure you pick the paravirtualized type of instance if you also want ipv6.