Good rentable servers?

Doug Poland doug at polands.org
Mon Feb 21 07:34:50 PST 2005


On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 09:13:29AM -0600, John wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 02:44:01AM -0500, bsdnooby wrote:
> > 
> > Instead of getting a fixed IP address at my house, and having a noisy 
> > machine running all the time - I think I might want to try renting a 
> > dedicated FreeBSD server.  It would be used for running Apache, phpBB, 
> > email, listserv, and a few other services.  I found several places that 
> > have dedicated FreeBSD machines to rent, their prices seems to all be 
> > $99 a month.
> 
> Would it really need to be DEDICATED?  Many ISP's offer virtualized
> servers - the hardware would be shared with other virtual domains.
> I don't know what all services you need, but web and e-mail certainly
> can work in the virtualized environment.
> 
> Check it out - see if it is for you - I know that SkyPoint used
> to offer this when I worked for them (www.skypoint.net).
>
Here's another company that offers FreeBSD virtual servers:

    http://www.johncompanies.com/jc_bsd.html

-- 
Regards,
Doug


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