RootBSD?

[Brodey Dover]

I haven't any experience with rootbsd.net but my friend and I have
dealt with ServerNorth based in Canada if you're interested.

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Garance A Drosehn <gad at freebsd.org> wrote:
> At 9:04 AM -0400 4/6/10, Tom Ierna wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Anyone have any experience with RootBSD.net?
>>
>> I'm looking to move an office-hosted machine's services to the cloud, and
>> they seem to be one of the only VPS companies centered around BSD support
>> instead of Linux.
>
> I've been using them for a few years now.  What I have with them is a system
> which is meant to be used as a "hot backup" for a system which is here in my
> office.  So, the main things I wanted was (1) real freebsd systems, (2)
> which were someplace far away from Troy NY.  I wanted to be pretty sure that
> any problem which took out my main system would NOT take out my "hot backup"
> system!
>
> I've had absolutely no trouble with them.  The few times that I've had to
> contact them, they've been happy to provide whatever help I needed.  On the
> other hand, my main system has been working fine for almost three years now,
> so this backup system that I have at rootbsd.net has not seen much activity.
>  I just rsync the main system to the backup system once a day, and then
> every few months I upgrade the FreeBSD that I'm running on the system at
> rootbsd.net.
>
> --
> Garance Alistair Drosehn     =               drosehn at rpi.edu
> Senior Systems Programmer               or   gad at FreeBSD.org
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;             Troy, NY;  USA
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