Playing the devil's advocate (Score: 2, Interesting) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-04-22 09:19 (#14Z) Well, knowing nothing about what's going on behind the scenes, at first glance is this nothing more than a business optimization? Perhaps they found that typical users needed nothing more than X but were actually getting Y, and if they adjusted they could fit more customers into their existing hardware resources?That doesn't make it right of course, but would help explain what's going on. Not too late for a competitor to swoop in with a better deal and steal away customers - it's what keeps the business world honest and on their toes. Re: Playing the devil's advocate (Score: 2, Interesting) by tempest@pipedot.org on 2014-04-22 15:28 (#155) I'd be surprised if there are any hosts offering 8 cores at $20 a month. That's insanely over provisioned in my opinion. Although I'm not sure what the competition is doing either. This looks far better deal than what I'm paying, although I'm happy where I'm at and Linode doesn't offer FreeBSD hosting anyway. FreeBSD (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-04-22 20:30 (#15A) If you're looking for BSD hosting - and it doesn't sound like you are, I'm using rockvps for www.dictatorshandbook.net and I'm really happy with it. Or maybe I'm happy with BSD. Either way, I'm happy. Re: FreeBSD (Score: 1) by fnj@pipedot.org on 2014-04-28 10:41 (#17G) RockVPS offers BSD VMs? They don't list it. Re: FreeBSD (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-06-22 12:31 (#27T) Interesting (and I wish I'd seen this earlier). I'm absolutely, definitely running FreeBSD on RockVPS, but I just checked their page and it indeed seems they're not advertising it (it used to be right up front). Wonder if it has to do with some recent change of theirs that required me to change IP address and move my image to some new hardware? I'll have to look into alternatives.
Re: Playing the devil's advocate (Score: 2, Interesting) by tempest@pipedot.org on 2014-04-22 15:28 (#155) I'd be surprised if there are any hosts offering 8 cores at $20 a month. That's insanely over provisioned in my opinion. Although I'm not sure what the competition is doing either. This looks far better deal than what I'm paying, although I'm happy where I'm at and Linode doesn't offer FreeBSD hosting anyway. FreeBSD (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-04-22 20:30 (#15A) If you're looking for BSD hosting - and it doesn't sound like you are, I'm using rockvps for www.dictatorshandbook.net and I'm really happy with it. Or maybe I'm happy with BSD. Either way, I'm happy. Re: FreeBSD (Score: 1) by fnj@pipedot.org on 2014-04-28 10:41 (#17G) RockVPS offers BSD VMs? They don't list it. Re: FreeBSD (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-06-22 12:31 (#27T) Interesting (and I wish I'd seen this earlier). I'm absolutely, definitely running FreeBSD on RockVPS, but I just checked their page and it indeed seems they're not advertising it (it used to be right up front). Wonder if it has to do with some recent change of theirs that required me to change IP address and move my image to some new hardware? I'll have to look into alternatives.
FreeBSD (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-04-22 20:30 (#15A) If you're looking for BSD hosting - and it doesn't sound like you are, I'm using rockvps for www.dictatorshandbook.net and I'm really happy with it. Or maybe I'm happy with BSD. Either way, I'm happy. Re: FreeBSD (Score: 1) by fnj@pipedot.org on 2014-04-28 10:41 (#17G) RockVPS offers BSD VMs? They don't list it. Re: FreeBSD (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-06-22 12:31 (#27T) Interesting (and I wish I'd seen this earlier). I'm absolutely, definitely running FreeBSD on RockVPS, but I just checked their page and it indeed seems they're not advertising it (it used to be right up front). Wonder if it has to do with some recent change of theirs that required me to change IP address and move my image to some new hardware? I'll have to look into alternatives.
Re: FreeBSD (Score: 1) by fnj@pipedot.org on 2014-04-28 10:41 (#17G) RockVPS offers BSD VMs? They don't list it. Re: FreeBSD (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-06-22 12:31 (#27T) Interesting (and I wish I'd seen this earlier). I'm absolutely, definitely running FreeBSD on RockVPS, but I just checked their page and it indeed seems they're not advertising it (it used to be right up front). Wonder if it has to do with some recent change of theirs that required me to change IP address and move my image to some new hardware? I'll have to look into alternatives.
Re: FreeBSD (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-06-22 12:31 (#27T) Interesting (and I wish I'd seen this earlier). I'm absolutely, definitely running FreeBSD on RockVPS, but I just checked their page and it indeed seems they're not advertising it (it used to be right up front). Wonder if it has to do with some recent change of theirs that required me to change IP address and move my image to some new hardware? I'll have to look into alternatives.