DigitalOcean Wants To Challenge Amazon, Linode With Focus On Simplicity

Re:DigitalOcean Wants To Challenge Amazon, Linode With Focus... by dallagi on Thursday June 27, 2013 @04:50PM (#5954620)

Is FreeBSD supported?

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Re:DigitalOcean Wants To Challenge Amazon, Linode With Focus... by vially on Thursday June 27, 2013 @05:00PM (#5954675)

Not yet but apparently they started working on it: https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-oce...

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Re:DigitalOcean Wants To Challenge Amazon, Linode With Focus... by JeremyMorgan on Thursday June 27, 2013 @05:49PM (#5954946)

The first one to successfully do this will definitely get me to open my wallet.

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Re:DigitalOcean Wants To Challenge Amazon, Linode With Focus... by gregf on Thursday June 27, 2013 @06:05PM (#5955027)

AWS has freebsd.

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Re:DigitalOcean Wants To Challenge Amazon, Linode With Focus... by cynix on Thursday June 27, 2013 @08:43PM (#5955590)

But you have to pay the Windows tax on most instance types if you want to use FreeBSD.

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Re:DigitalOcean Wants To Challenge Amazon, Linode With Focus... by gregf on Friday June 28, 2013 @12:18AM (#5956207)

I think you should go look at ec2 pricing. Linux/BSD instances are cheaper to run per hour than there windows counter parts.

Scroll down a page or so to view the pricing charts.

https://aws.amazon.com/windows/ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/

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Re:DigitalOcean Wants To Challenge Amazon, Linode With Focus... by cynix on Friday June 28, 2013 @06:37AM (#5957203)

The FreeBSD images can only be run on Windows instances (except for a few expensive instance types). That's why I said you have to pay the Windows tax if you want to run FreeBSD on EC2.

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Re:DigitalOcean Wants To Challenge Amazon, Linode With Focus... by dbond on Thursday June 27, 2013 @04:59PM (#5954669)

Nope, just various linux flavours

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