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Re:Taking Over DigitalOcean Domains via a Lax Domain Import ... by zatkin on Friday August 26, 2016 @02:20AM (#12364563)
Do you know of an alternative that can host an instance of FreeBSD?
Re:Taking Over DigitalOcean Domains via a Lax Domain Import ... by cyphar on Friday August 26, 2016 @02:41AM (#12364639)
I believe Vultr offers FreeBSD (and custom ISO) hosting at about the same price and offers storage servers too. Their documentation and remote console tools leave a lot to be desired though (I wanted to install openSUSE and ended up resorting to manually entering the iPXE commands at a console to get the damn thing installed).
Re:Taking Over DigitalOcean Domains via a Lax Domain Import ... by nicolas_t on Friday August 26, 2016 @03:03AM (#12364718)
Their support also leaves a lot to be desired. Had a persistent network problem due to a misconfiguration of their system and it took two weeks of back and forth before they really looked into it.
Re:Taking Over DigitalOcean Domains via a Lax Domain Import ... by po1nter on Friday August 26, 2016 @03:22AM (#12364767)
Are Vuktr and DigitalOcean related in any way? their websites look really similar down to the animation that shows you how to create a new droplet/server.
Re:Taking Over DigitalOcean Domains via a Lax Domain Import ... by nik736 on Friday August 26, 2016 @03:48AM (#12364853)
No, Vultr is a spin off of choopa. DO and them have nothing to do with each other.
Re:Taking Over DigitalOcean Domains via a Lax Domain Import ... by dumbsecreport on Friday August 26, 2016 @09:33AM (#12366074)
No, but they've always ripped off the site like that, either on purpose or not. It was worse when the company just came out.
Re:Taking Over DigitalOcean Domains via a Lax Domain Import ... by pilsetnieks on Friday August 26, 2016 @11:03AM (#12366740)
Looking at their DNS setup workflow[1] and API functions[2] I don't see any step where you would have to verify domain ownership - which is this whole thing is about, isn't it?

[1] https://serverpilot.io/community/articles/how-to-configure-d...

[2] https://www.vultr.com/api/#dns

Re:Taking Over DigitalOcean Domains via a Lax Domain Import ... by cyphar on Friday August 26, 2016 @11:36AM (#12366958)
I was providing an example of a host that provides FreeBSD support. To be clear, I don't think Vultr is a good host so I'm not really sure why I mentioned them to be honest...
Re:Taking Over DigitalOcean Domains via a Lax Domain Import ... by anilgulecha on Friday August 26, 2016 @02:28AM (#12364588)
I'm familiar only with AWS, and it supports FreeBSD.
Re:Taking Over DigitalOcean Domains via a Lax Domain Import ... by eropple on Friday August 26, 2016 @09:05AM (#12365888)
"Supports" is a strong phrase. Colin Percival creates FreeBSD AMIs. They work mmmmmostly as you might expect, except there's no cloud-init (instead it uses a gizmo that cperciva wrote), but AWS doesn't support it--that's a community thing.
Re:Taking Over DigitalOcean Domains via a Lax Domain Import ... by icebraining on Friday August 26, 2016 @04:32AM (#12364976)
TransIP is similar to DO (except they've had large storage for years) and they support FreeBSD. I've been a happy customer for a couple of years now, never had any problems.

https://www.transip.eu/

Re:Taking Over DigitalOcean Domains via a Lax Domain Import ... by jbverschoor on Friday August 26, 2016 @05:39AM (#12365189)
Yeah me too.. However, transip only has a dutch dc.
Re:Taking Over DigitalOcean Domains via a Lax Domain Import ... by mattbee on Friday August 26, 2016 @03:22AM (#12364769)
Sure, Bytemark Cloud https://www.bytemark.co.uk/cloud will let you install from a CD image if you need to, and we FreeBSD works fine.