I always do. It helps to have a virtual KVM in case anything goes wrong, but I've never seen it during updates.

Thanks, I'll try in the weekend!

Which VPS provider do you use for FreeBSD. Does anyone have recommendations?

rootbsd is the classic choice http://www.rootbsd.net/

there are also some freebsd images for AWS out there.

I also have freebsd vm's with crowncloud http://crowncloud.net/ and orangewebsite https://www.orangewebsite.com/vps.php

I've had a good experience with the last two. I chose them because they accept bitcoin (and orangewebsite is owned and operated in Iceland). If you go for some of the lesser known hosts, they will be flexible with what OS you want to use, especially if their platform is KVM based.

I use hetzner, I don't have a lot of necessities right now (I use it as git repo and as firefox sync server), but I'm very happy with it.

How did you set up the FF sync server? I just did a quick search and I think the instructions I've found were mostly outdated. Do you have a link or a name for the port?

I also enjoyed hetzner for a while and if I'd want a ZFS install I'd probably go with them as it's definitely very nice how they do it. But as I've just previously commented I found a slightly better price for my minimum needs with vultr.com (5$/per month) and ZFS is not important to me on this box.

I've used the official instructions here: https://docs.services.mozilla.com/howtos/run-sync-1.5.html I've not used the ports DB for this, I've simply cloned the source on /var/www and went from there.

Seconded on Hetzner - they have a really nice ZFS on root install system.

I'm very happy with Portfast. http://www.portfast.co.uk/

Vultr works well, and I'm told Atlantic is good, too. Digital Ocean might have FreeBSD support.

Tilaa.com, it's based in the Netherlands though.

I use http://www.vultr.com with a FBSD10 deployment and i'm very happy.