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Re: DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD

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Post by pyvpx »

I'm wondering what the chances of any other BSD being supported are...? Dragonfly? Open? ...Net? :)

edit: after actually reading TFA, it seems unlikely. Well, it seems like Dragonfly is most likely, if any others.

Re: DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD

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Post by icelancer »

phillc73 wrote: post #5

While this is great news, BSD support is currently the second most widely requested enhancement to the Digital Ocean service.[1] I wonder if we'll now see additional storage addressed soon? [1] https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocea... Edit: I've had this theme bookmarked for ages, now might be the time to build it! http://daemon-notes.com/articles/desktop/example

They have a bunch of stuff that was "planned" for Q1 2014 (separate hardware for master/slave setups) that aren't even close to shipping. Pretty frustrating. I like Digital Ocean and I use them in production for some apps but it's very hard to take their techops team seriously when they are missing deadlines by 12-18 months or more without regular updates. It's pretty unprofessional.

Re: DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD

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Post by Teichopsia »

JeremyMorgan wrote: post #4

Smart move. I will definitely be spinning up some FreeBSD droplets. This will attract people like me who enjoy building lean and mean BSD servers, and give people an alternative to Linux if they choose. Nice work Digital Ocean, love the way you folks keep pushing forward. Need some tutorials written?

If you take requests?

After reading the tut on HN the day before on how to be your own vpn provider with openbsd [1] I started to search for a tutorial that was either openbsd or freebsd with softether without much luck. I was about to do an instance of debian & softether.

Perhaps my comment would be better served in another way. I'm new at this and have no idea what I'm doing. :) How can I go about from setting a vpn server with a webpage for paying customers?

I'm looking at it more like a learning experience than to make it into a business, but if it works great. Could you or someone point me into the right direction into what needs to be read for each step of the way? I have very little linux experience, non in bsd and a little in python.

Thanks in advance.

[1] http://networkfilter.blogspot.com/

Re: DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD

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Post by andrewsomething »

pyvpx wrote: post #12

I'm wondering what the chances of any other BSD being supported are...? Dragonfly? Open? ...Net? :) edit: after actually reading TFA, it seems unlikely. Well, it seems like Dragonfly is most likely, if any others.

Depending on demand, adding other BSD variants is certainly a possibility. We had to start somewhere, and the FreeBSD community has been very vocal about wanting to see this happen. This is the first non-Linux OS we've decided to support, so we're excited to get feedback on it.

Re: DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD

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Post by anonova »

icelancer wrote: post #13
phillc73 wrote: post #5

While this is great news, BSD support is currently the second most widely requested enhancement to the Digital Ocean service.[1] I wonder if we'll now see additional storage addressed soon? [1] https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocea... Edit: I've had this theme bookmarked for ages, now might be the time to build it! http://daemon-notes.com/articles/desktop/example

They have a bunch of stuff that was "planned" for Q1 2014 (separate hardware for master/slave setups) that aren't even close to shipping. Pretty frustrating. I like Digital Ocean and I use them in production for some apps but it's very hard to take their techops team seriously when they are missing deadlines by 12-18 months or more without regular updates. It's pretty unprofessional.

Yep. I was running Arch Linux on a personal droplet, and they decided to deprecate support for it. I don't even think there was an official announcement about it. There's even quite a bit of backing to bring it back [1], and oddly, they use an old video on their front page with when Arch was still listed [2].

"Built for developers" => can't use developer's favorite OS. :(

[1]: https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocea...

[2]: https://www.digitalocean.com/assets/video/create-e68d7b3c.we...

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