[nycbug-talk] Fully managed datacenter for Freebsd servers

[David Lawson]

Rackspace.  When I worked there they offered a bunch of FreeBSD  
installation options and it was a fully supported OS under their  
SLA.  I don't know if that's still the case, but it's likely, if not,  
they'll always do a custom install for you, but the support SLA wont  
be quite as good as with a "supported" OS.  Two things you'd like are  
unlikely to be possible.  They do have TCP/IP KVMs, but they're for  
internal support staff to get to remote machines, and last I heard,  
they didn't do remote power cycling, but they will, almost  
guaranteed, bounce a box or fix whatever's wrong with it before you  
even know it's broken, unless you were working on something and broke  
it.  In which case, you'd probably figure it out first.

Like I said, they're my former employer and I really can't speak  
highly enough of them and the people they have, at least, as of two  
years ago when I left.

--Dave
On May 9, 2007, at 9:13 PM, Huy Ton That wrote:

> Try New York Internet
>
> http://www.nyi.net/
>
> On 5/9/07, Francisco Reyes < lists at stringsutils.com> wrote:
> Anyone can recommend a fully managed datacenter?
> Specifically one that supports Freebsd.
>
> We basically want to select a hardware package from the data  
> center; they
> get the machine, install FreeBSD and we will just connect through a  
> KVM and
> do anything/everything we need.
>
> Remote power cycling would be a great added feature too.
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