[talk] YAPS - Yet Another Provider Survey

[John C. Vernaleo]

I used Vultr for personal stuff (mix of Linux and OpenBSD) for years and 
up until recently was pretty happy.  The last year or two I've been using 
them very heavily for work and it has been a nightmare.  Frequent 
downtime, poor disk performance, weird disk locking issues, lack of 
available resources in their data centers, pretty much any cloud issue you 
can think of, I've hit (and we're only talking a couple dozen servers 
across their regions, not a huge footprint by cloud scale).

arpnetworks has been great for me with openbsd for me for a long time. 
After my vultr expereince, I'll be moving my remaining personal stuff back 
to arpnetworks (that's what I get for chasing a cheaper price).

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John C. Vernaleo, Ph.D.
www.netpurgatory.com
jcv at netpurgatory.com
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On Tue, 22 Apr 2025, Charles Sprickman wrote:

> I'm still using Vultr without any real issues.
> They have FreeBSD and OpenBSD available as one-click installs:
> 
> https://i.imgur.com/uLJlziD.png
> 
> I really haven't had any issues with them, and the pricing is really nice for little projects where you just need a server "out there" and don't want to
> spend more than $4/month. Performance is fine (I do have a few VPSs that do some web hosting). The only downside is that they do seem to have frequent
> maintenance events, but they are very good about sending advance notice (and of course, it indicates some level of competency if they're keeping up with
> updates/fixes to the hosting and networking stuff).
> 
> Charles
>
>       On Apr 21, 2025, at 3:39 PM, jpb <jpb at jimby.name> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I'm doing my once-a-decade survey on hosting providers.  Currently
> using Netactuate (old RootBSD) and I'm happy with them, but they're a
> bit pricey.
> 
> I'm looking to compare pricing on a virtual private server (virtual
> server, not bare metal) with 4GB RAM and 60GB disk.  These are rough
> numbers - I'll consider both requirements up some or down some.
> 
> MUST be willing to let me run FreeBSD, even -CURRENT.
> 
> I'm currently aware of:
> 
> Netactuate
> Panix
> HiVelocity
> Arp Networks
> and
> OpenBSD Amsterdam (not pursuing since they are OpenBSD only)
> 
> What else is out there ?
> 
> Thanks Everyone!
> Jim B.
> 
> 
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