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If DO users don't need the ability to upload their own images, why is this a problem?
Read the link. There are over a thousand votes and six pages of comments of people saying "this is a problem for me".
The fact that DO had to make this announcement at all is a sign that things have gotten worse for VPSs. Before, when a company provided Xen or Kvm, you generally would get to have low-level access such as the ability to virtually connect to a serial port or vnc session of your box as it booted. You also, typically, could provide your own ISO images. Even if you couldn't provide your own iso, being able to interact wi…
The fact that DO had to make this announcement at all is a sign that things have gotten worse for VPSs. Before, when a company provided Xen or Kvm, you generally would get to have low-level access such as the ability to virtually connect to a serial port or vnc session of your box as it booted. You also, typically, could provide your own ISO images. Even if you couldn't provide your own iso, being able to interact wi…
It's remarkable that you start your sentence with "before". As a prgmr.com user, I can still get an out-of-the-band console and run my own kernel without any fanfare. (no affiliation at all, just a happy user)
Just deployed a FreeBSD droplet and I'm not sure if it's just because the host network is busier than my other droplets, but I seem to be getting about half the network performance that I can in a default linux droplet. They are using Virtio, which is good since it doesn't require hardware emulation like the E1XXX devices on KVM. I should probably use a better test than cachefly but just wondering if theres any known…
It's not only DO. I had to create a Linux VPS in order to run a Sinatra application because when deployed on FreeBSD it took more than 60 seconds to send a response to the remote API and the connection was timed out! After performing some tests[2] I figure out that the problem was not FreeBSD per se, but the FreeBSD deployment on the specific virtual server... I think that *BSDs should be avoided because they tend to…
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+ Dtrace + Jails + Capsicum [1] + Netmap [2] + Most performing network stack + Resource Management (pretty low memory usage) + The userspace tools come with the source (no GNU/Linux duality) + Clang/LLVM as default compiler stack [1] - https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=capsicum&sektion=4 [2] - https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=netmap&sektion=4
I never understood the main differences between jails and chroots. Would you be willing to explain?
This is a pretty good overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating-system-level_virtual...
The fact that DO had to make this announcement at all is a sign that things have gotten worse for VPSs. Before, when a company provided Xen or Kvm, you generally would get to have low-level access such as the ability to virtually connect to a serial port or vnc session of your box as it booted. You also, typically, could provide your own ISO images. Even if you couldn't provide your own iso, being able to interact wi…
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Some DO users will want this, others who aren't DO customers will also want this. As a growing company DO want to attract as many new customers as possible. They're still in early stages though, I'm sure this is in the pipeline.
Why would a growing company want to attract as many new customers as possible? This seems to be a fast lane to default. Growing company wants as many profitable customers which can be served as possible. Or should growing companies try to offer everything for all?
The fact that DO had to make this announcement at all is a sign that things have gotten worse for VPSs. Before, when a company provided Xen or Kvm, you generally would get to have low-level access such as the ability to virtually connect to a serial port or vnc session of your box as it booted. You also, typically, could provide your own ISO images. Even if you couldn't provide your own iso, being able to interact wi…
The best solution is to have maintainers of the OS prepare cloud distributions. Many already do for AWS or OpenStack. Our own 'cperciva is responsible for EC2-compatible version of FreeBSD.
Until this becomes a standard, there's nothing wrong with partial solutions. I created a FreeBSD droplet right away.
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I am also seeing really poor write speeds when comparing to my Linux droplets. 11MB/sec vs. 216MB/sec on Linux
With FreeBSD, in order to be able to have automatic backups work, we were required to disable journaling on the disk. This will cause the disk speed to be much slower than our Linux distributions. If you wish to have higher disk speeds, but not use backups, we recommend for you to remount your disk with journaling. https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/gjournal-desktop/con...
Shouldn't this make it much faster as the FS no longer maintains a journal?