Re:DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD
by ownagefool on Thursday January 15, 2015 @08:36AM
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Part of his point is DO will ignore apt-get where kernels are involved. Sure, it'll look like you're running the latest, but unless you undertake additional steps, it'll be booting their kernel, not yours.
So? My whole point is that my Rails app will run on every kernel DO will ever care to support.
If you want to do such low-level things as upgrade kernels, then maybe DO's one-click-and-poof-you're-running is less important to you than some other features and DO isn't the best option for you.
Also, it's $5/mo. I'm sold (and have been for a year now). No complaints.
Re:DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD
by RaleyField on Thursday January 15, 2015 @12:54PM
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> I assume you also complain about the availability of microwave meals?
DO is well know, judging by the fact that I know of it and I don't know a lot about VPS business. The fact that you and many of their customers want easy to configure VPS doesn't preclude them from offering a more configurable option for other users where you are able to install whatever kernel you want. Use more imagination and less microwaves.
There's a market for everything. You don't understand my use case. My use case is "I want to click a button and then I want to be able to `apt-get install what-i-want` and then it should work. I don't even care whether it's Debian or Ubuntu, as long as it has apt-get because that's all I understand.
Granted, maybe I shouldn't be running VPSes at all but hey, it works, and I bet DO has many customers like me.