Downtime! Downtime! Downtime! I want FreeBSD! :-)

[Nikola Pavlović]

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 09:51:15AM -0500, Jamie wrote:
> Hello FreeBSD-Chat,
> 
> I've got a dedicated freebsd box in the US, the thing is rock solid,
> in 4 years time, I think it's been down maybe 3 times and in all those
> cases, it was a bone-head mistake on my part... I like FreeBSD.. a lot.
> 
> Anyway, my FreeBSD box is located in the US and doesn't offer the 
> bandwidth I need... so I went to the dark side and tried out a couple
> Linux VPS type of deals.
> 
> Here are the applications I need to run (reliably):
> 
> . icecast
> . shoutcast
> . nginx
> 
> I need this to be outside the US, preferably Europe or Canada, 
> doesn't matter. (it's SOCAN licensed, and I just don't trust the
> US politicians not to bow down to lobbyists)
> 
> I'll eventually need around 4TB/month of bandwidth if I'm *really* 
> lucky... but probably not for some time (if ever)
> 
> With Linux VPS's (I tried both KVM and OpenVZ) 
> 
> I tried chvps.com and edis.at
> 
> Here's what happened:
> 
> Network errors! every hour or more! it happened with only 6 or so
> stream connections, (INCLUDING the incoming ones)
> 
> Obviously, no one is going to become a regular listener if they
> get booted off for 4 minutes every hour... this sucks!
> 
> Does anyone know of a place that'll rent out FreeBSD jails, with 
> 2 IP numbers? (and by that, I don't mean FreeBSD running in a linux
> virtualization compartment.. I mean, freebsd running on bare hardware)
> 

Notu sure if this will fit your needs, but I'm quite pleased with
http://hetzner.de (I've been with them for a month so far, no
objections).

There is no "auto" install for FreeBSD, but they offer a FreeBSD "rescue
system" (mfsBSD in fact) and you can proceed from there.  They even have
a help page which can get you started on installing.  No technical
support for FreeBSD but I guess you won't need that anyway.

They offer up to 4 additional IPs, 1 euro/month per IP, or you can get
subnets which of course costs a lot more.

The only problem you might have is bandwidth, but additional charges
when you go over the limit don't seem too bad.



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