Whats a typical ETA for a new FreeBSD VPS Order?
a couple days if there is capacity otherwise.. whenever hardware arrives, i think.
zeshoem: i've been setting them up faster latey, so about 24 hours or less.  they are set up at night usually
I also have extra capacity now, so I won't be sold out any time soon (unless i get slashdotted or something ;)
for an OpenBSD VPS, how is that set up? Xen?
no
KVM
ooh ok
ajwak95: arp uses KVM exclusively
im 99% sure
oh ok
XEN has pretty awful HVM support
yes
yes it does
I wasn't sure if it was HVM or PVM prefered
The Old Guard in #openbsd seem to have a common theme going on for virtualized OpenBSD: "The bottom line is openbsd is not reliable as a virtualized os, neither the openbsd devs or the virtualization software makers support it" and "stop building castles in the sky, openbsd is the wrong OS for this". It seems to be working okay. But is it difficult to work with for arpnetworks?(I am a customer using OpenBSD).
lol
trebuchet: most likely arp is giving the people what they want and it seems to work in practical experience
pretty much.
i'm impressed with the freebsd support
especially using kvm
i really want to know how they got such good disk i/o
without virtio
proprietary secret from what i remember of the previous discussion :P
haha it's freaking sweet
from personal experience freebsd has sucked in I/O on kvm
the boxes are lightly loaded and have very good disk IO, so that may be why.
personally i'm working on a "cloud" type system built on kvm/libvirt
the backend storage is a fiber chanel san and linux just outperforms freebsd by tons
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs885.ash1/179380_10150137628004460_32978509459_7805073_1587309_n.jpg
now that is epic
lol