DigitalOcean offers VMs with FreeBSD!

[Mark Martinec]

>>> But here are some thread about FreeBSD is way slower than Linux
>>> in these virtual installations

>>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8888487
>> 
>> May be IOPS quotation? Can you test with dd and custom kernel with
>> MAXPHYS=1048576 ?

Don't know about DO, but networking over virtio is also slower
under VirtualBox (FreeBSD guest and host), compared to the
emulated em0.

   Mark