[fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2017-03-10 15:50, noreply at z505.com wrote:
> It's hard to find BSD hosting and digitalocean offers it as you can 
> install your own copy of any OS they have available.

Actually no, there are quite a lot that support FreeBSD VMs. Just last
night I found the following:

 * DigitalOcean
 * Vultr
 * Atlantic.Net
 * RootBSD
 * Cloudsigma
 * Amazon AWS


> The issue with these services is that you have to manage your own 
> server

:) That is exactly what I was looking for. I have different clients
running different versions of WordPress etc. The simple cPanel style
management (some web management interface) can't cater for such situations.

As for FreeBSD updates. That is another reason I switched to FreeBSD
several years ago. The base OS is clearly separated from user installed
software (unlike ALL Linux distros). Upgrading the base FreeBSD OS
(that's the kernel and base utilities and libraries) is an absolute
breeze, and I've never had it fail on me before. I've upgraded many
FreeBSD systems multiple times over the past 4+ years and every time it
worked flawlessly.

As for the user installed programs or services (eg: Apache, Firebird
etc), I always do those via the FreeBSD ports system. And again, that
has worked out very well for me. I don't like binary package systems
(with hard-code dependencies).


> bsd web hosting companies out there. But even if you get a cloud bsd 
> solution, it likely runs on a linux kernel in a vm anyway

Some run Xen on bare metal systems. Vultr utilizes KVM ( Kernel-based
Virtual Machine ) on 100% of their infrastructure.



Regards,
  Graeme

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