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
More information about the freebsd-newbies
mailing list