if ARP didn't exist, what would the best freebsd hosting be for people who don't need a lot of handholding like me?
I'm looking for an offsite backup, perhaps even a hot spare.
but mostly an offsize backup to squirt ZFS streams towards
RootBSD, perhaps?
whoa - why isn't arp on http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/isp.html
hi RandalSchwartz
hey fink
RandalSchwartz: RootBSD has been good to me, and they're geodiverse from ARP.
cool
I've sent them a note to get a quote on more disk
and to see if they mount a distro in the DVD tray like ARP
and to see if they have ipv6 yet
JohnCompanies is another option.  Jail-based VPSes.  No IPv6, though, and, worse, mgmt doesn't even have a plan for it yet.
(That was actually the reason I switched from them to ARPN)
yeah - I didn't see good info from JC
the web site says "and we're supporting freebsd 8.0 now!"
2008 called... they want their page back. :)
of course, xkcd comes to mind
heyo!  I just set up my FreeBSD server on Arp and buttoned it up nicely with pf and public-key-only ssh
I want to make sure that Arp can still access the box via the arpnetworks user.  I see that there's an ssh key waiting there.  Anything else I need to do?
how restrictive is your pf?
apparently so restrictive that you can't even stick around to talk about it!
so would it be blasphemous for me to install Ubuntu on my vm
not at all
kinda pointless though
ubuntu is a desktop os
not a server os
I beg to differ actually
there is Ubuntu server
feel free.  wasted breath though. :)
I don't consider linux suitable for servers in general. :)
indeed.. wasted breath
How about I installed Solaris 11 Express then ;-)
install*
now you're just being silly :)
its actually "not" that bad
much better than 10
it's package manager is actually usable
just the licensing is going to kill it eventually
s/it's/its/
<<== professional writer
one of my favorite irks
its only real home will be in the enterprise, even there there's so much disdain for Oracle now a days
yeah - oracle is strangling any goodness that sun once was
on the other hand, sun sorta did that to itself
I say this knowing Simon Phipps very well
since he's the co-host of FLOSS Weekly on a routine basis
also people putting an apostrophe after an acronym when its not possessive
yea agreed
Simon has an amazingly deep insight about the role of open source
and was steering Sun in the proper direction
but the recession killed Sun
like many other valuable things :)
and Sparc no longer is useful in todays world
the recession nearly killed me
Sun was a lot more than Sparc
yea I guess I never looked at where they made most of their money
assumed it was hardware
Sun had a lot more hardware than Sparc. :)
lots of x86 boxes
yea their X86 hardware is crap and overpriced
i say that with having quite a bit of it
and thier Sparc hardware
Sun Fire!
which is actually the most solid hardware I've ever used
is Garry doing FreeBSD 8.2 yet?
it's not listed in the drop down box
just put it in the comments
I don't think he's updated the website yet
ah
yea no biggy