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Re:DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD by dhaivatpandya on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @11:32PM (#8890893)
If DO users don't need the ability to upload their own images, why is this a problem?
Re:DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD by vacri on Thursday January 15, 2015 @04:16AM (#8891588)
Read the link. There are over a thousand votes and six pages of comments of people saying "this is a problem for me".
Re:DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD by TheDong on Thursday January 15, 2015 @04:33AM (#8891636)
The one that's for custom images, not just kernels, is actually even higher up at over 3k votes and second highest on the list currently: https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocea...
Re:DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD by newaccountfool on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @11:45PM (#8890928)
Some DO users will want this, others who aren't DO customers will also want this. As a growing company DO want to attract as many new customers as possible.

They're still in early stages though, I'm sure this is in the pipeline.

Re:DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD by _xzu on Thursday January 15, 2015 @03:42AM (#8891481)
Why would a growing company want to attract as many new customers as possible? This seems to be a fast lane to default. Growing company wants as many profitable customers which can be served as possible. Or should growing companies try to offer everything for all?
Re:DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD by blfr on Thursday January 15, 2015 @05:31AM (#8891790)
Growing companies generally want to attract as many new customers as feasible because it generates buzz, and gives them a shot at becoming the go-to place for their kind of service.
Re:DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD by vidarh on Thursday January 15, 2015 @02:56PM (#8894952)
Not if a large subset of those customers are not profitable, was the point.
Re:DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD by icelancer on Thursday January 15, 2015 @02:24AM (#8891308)
>They're still in early stages though, I'm sure this is in the pipeline.

I would not call Digital Ocean all that early. This has been an issue for years.