convore.json/groups/freebsd/best-hosting-options-for-freebsd-vpsen/messages.json

[{"user_id": 216, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584514.015697, "message": "FreeBSD 9 (and possibly 8.2, though unlikely) will include EC2 support", "group_id": 101, "id": 41090}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584519.804204, "message": "i'm also praying for the day ec2 comes around", "group_id": 101, "id": 41091}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584531.127718, "message": "using apt-get makes me super sad", "group_id": 101, "id": 41092}, {"user_id": 216, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584446.303993, "message": "http://www.rootbsd.net/", "group_id": 101, "id": 41086}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584447.830899, "message": "I'd like to move away from rackspace cloud and have been itching to try FreeBSD (for jails). Cheap is good. Reliable is better.", "group_id": 101, "id": 41087}, {"user_id": 216, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584494.8397379, "message": "@justinlilly If you can wait a bit you'll be able to use EC2", "group_id": 101, "id": 41088}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584508.9683349, "message": "i was -this- close to doing rootbsd but went with linode instead. can you attest to it curt?", "group_id": 101, "id": 41089}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584532.345737, "message": "How inexpensive is hosting something small on ec2? I actually haven't priced it recently.", "group_id": 101, "id": 41093}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584543.9352679, "message": "ie: micro instance / month?", "group_id": 101, "id": 41094}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584545.237694, "message": "justinlilly: it's cheap but unpredictable.", "group_id": 101, "id": 41095}, {"user_id": 216, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584552.3899789, "message": "@jacob I know a lot of people who have them, seem to be good. But I host all of my stuff here: http://genesishosting.com/services/fixed_resource.cfm", "group_id": 101, "id": 41096}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584557.258575, "message": "Unpredictable how? Bandwidth?", "group_id": 101, "id": 41097}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584569.7771261, "message": "basically yeah", "group_id": 101, "id": 41098}, {"user_id": 216, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584659.490454, "message": "@jacob compared to EC2 yes, but it provides me more options.", "group_id": 101, "id": 41106}, {"user_id": 216, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584689.4254999, "message": "though $25/mth for their service hasn't been a waste of money, very happy.", "group_id": 101, "id": 41107}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584702.7421229, "message": "just seems like the resouce allocation for the 25 seems fairly low", "group_id": 101, "id": 41108}, {"user_id": 216, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584840.976536, "message": "Soon I'll have a setup for bootstrapping a FreeBSD server with puppet published. Taking me sometime though", "group_id": 101, "id": 41112}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584871.9725921, "message": "this should probably be it's own topic huh", "group_id": 101, "id": 41114}, {"user_id": 216, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584571.6526999, "message": "CPU, micros basically fill in the gaps of performance on the hosts", "group_id": 101, "id": 41099}, {"user_id": 216, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584611.008399, "message": "The cool thing about Genesis is they give you a resource group and you can create a bunch of vm's, or one. Great for experimenting with things", "group_id": 101, "id": 41100}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584754.9501791, "message": "that's my main issue with linux packaging. it seems like it's a one-shot ordeal, and tinkering around (though obviously possible if it wasn't for my ignorance) isn't as intuitive as it is in *Bsd land", "group_id": 101, "id": 41110}, {"user_id": 216, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584801.624732, "message": "@jacob for the reliability, it's blown away RSC and EC2 in my experience.", "group_id": 101, "id": 41111}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584619.5937359, "message": "asenchi: this stuff looks kinda expensive, or am i reading it wrong?", "group_id": 101, "id": 41101}, {"user_id": 216, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584624.918004, "message": "It's also the only VMware provider I can find that does this (and is reliable)", "group_id": 101, "id": 41102}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584726.2200871, "message": "i just moved nohomers.net (php =() to linode and have been crazy happy with it, even if setting up the boxes was an ordeal", "group_id": 101, "id": 41109}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584900.4203031, "message": "topic forked", "group_id": 101, "id": 41118}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584865.2969849, "message": "asenchi: what's your thoughts on puppet vs chef for bsd support?", "group_id": 101, "id": 41113}, {"user_id": 216, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584878.592104, "message": "hehe sure", "group_id": 101, "id": 41115}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296584885.9971969, "message": "My beef with RSC is that I got ~$5 in affiliate credit, 3 months later, they charge me 3 dollars randomly, revoking my affiliate credit, because of some reason they wouldn't tell me.", "group_id": 101, "id": 41116}, {"user_id": 216, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1296585227.1044331, "message": "@justinlilly eesh", "group_id": 101, "id": 41138}, {"user_id": 18138, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1307061954.1482849, "message": "Check out arpnetworks.com.. recently moved off of Rackspace to a few fbsd vps here. So far, excellent service and the owner and staff are usually available on their IRC channel (freenode)", "group_id": 101, "id": 1273095}, {"user_id": 651, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1563, "date_created": 1307110593.4283431, "message": "I have a small FreeBSD VPS at hetzner.de (~$12) and a very small one at nqhost.com (~$6). I am quite happy with both, though I don't have anything performance or mission critical there.", "group_id": 101, "id": 1277665}]