DigitalOcean offers VMs with FreeBSD!

[Bernhard Fröhlich]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Lev Serebryakov <lev at freebsd.org> wrote:
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https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/presenting-freebsd-how-we-made-it-happen/
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> I didn't see this news on mailing lists :)

I had a quick look at it and the result is
quite poor considering the time it took them to get it done.

They had to install quite a few packages (perl, python27, libX11, avahi
...) and modified the stock FreeBSD image quite a bit. At startup they send
an arping otherwise you do not even have network access in their network.
This looks all a bit hackish and error prone. I am really wondering how
long it will take that a regular update breaks their scripts and let's you
back with a non accessible box.

-- 
Bernhard Froehlich
http://www.bluelife.at/