Recommendation for FreeBSD virtual private server vendor?

Fri Jun 17 18:56:47 PDT 2005

You should consider www.hub.org .. It's a pretty-well run site which 
uses FreeBSD (I believe0, and part
of it's money goes to help the postgres project.   Another good choice 
is Aktiom, but I'm not sure if they
provide FreeBSD servers or not.

William R Ward wrote:

>David Carmean writes:
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>
>>Feeling guilty about the spam and diskspace load I'm putting on my friends' 
>>home/DSL server, I'm looking into affordable alternatives and Virtual Private 
>>Servers are looking interesting.  I prefer FreeBSD over Linux.
>>
>>What I'm concerned about is how to get one set up with packet filters (pref. 
>>ip_filter) before the thing goes on-line.  How do vendors handle that 
>>chicken-and-egg problem?
>>
>>Any recommendations for vendors or what to look for in services?  RackSpace's 
>>DDS looks interesting.
>>
>>Is anybody reselling VMWare-based virtual machines?
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>
>I know you said you prefer not to use Linux, but I have no such qualm
>and am fairly happy with linode.com.
>
>As for packet filters, the default installation of most modern OS's
>only opens up a handful of key ports anyway, such as ssh and http, so
>it shouldn't be a big risk.  Plus there's nothing there yet for them
>to hack and you know it's the most current version of the OS.
>
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