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Re: DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD

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Post by saper » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 8:57 PM UTC

vhbit wrote: post #188

vhbit wrote: post #183

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There is no way to boot into single user mode for now (or at least instructions provided aren't working).

And the reason was invalid /boot/loader.conf: console="vidconsole,comconsole" autoboot_delay="10" console="comconsole,vidconsole" autoboot_delay="1" Second console actually disables access from web console access, which is fatal. Autoboot is not critical, although default to 3 sec should work much better for opportunity to change boot options from web console.

This got apparently fixed, in my "ams3" instance I've had to issues getting web console to work (needed to "tunefs -n enable /")

Re: DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD

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Post by saper » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 9:15 PM UTC

TheDong wrote: post #139

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…

With FreeBSD, bootloader and kernel are stored on the root filesystem. So you can change them as you desire. Only repartitioning is painful a bit.

Re: DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD

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Post by atmosx » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 11:03 PM UTC

rufugee wrote: post #181

pyvpx wrote: post #174

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the PF available on FreeBSD is woefully out of date. If you use FreeBSD regularly and don't mess with pf, learn ipfw. it is quite powerful and much more performant.

I'm surprised this is the case, since pfsense is a very capable FW built upon the pf version on FreeBSD. I've been running it for years with nary a problem. Would you say the outdated version of pf puts people running pfsense at risk?

Everything he said is true and I know this for sure. But I like PF so much and even the stripped down version of FreeBSD feels awesomely good. You're in no danger what-so-ever. OpenBSD's version of PF has loads of advanced features and way better performance but you'll only notice these things if you need an (very?) advanced configuration.

Re: DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD

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Post by lcmatt » Fri, Jan 16, 2015, 11:57 AM UTC

aurelien wrote: post #144

A service that is a bit ugly, here is what I feel about, you register, you give your credit card, and you just don't know how it will cost. That point is just bad and make me feel that will cost an eye.

Don't know how much it will cost?

The price you see in the huge font is the price you'll pay at the end of the month...