Another look at FreeBSD 8

A customer recently linked us to a blog post, https://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html (link broken as of 02/28/2016), that gives a really good look at what there is to come in the up-and-coming version 8 of the FreeBSD operating system. It looks like the...

FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE

The FreeBSD release team announced the availability of 7.2-RELEASE on May 4.  We’ve loaded it in our system and its now available for new VPS setups. Official announcement: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/announce.html Highlights: support for fully...

FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE

In the last few days, the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team finalized 7.1-RELEASE and it is now available for download.  We are now also offering the option for 7.1-RELEASE on new VPS setups.  It is listed as an option in the signup process (along with 6.3 and 7.0)....

Why FreeBSD?

Whether or not you are new to the world of VPS’s (perhaps you read our entry a few days ago, “Why VPS?”), you may be wondering what the advantages are of a FreeBSD-based VPS. There are great reasons why many experts in virtual hosting, like RootBSD,...