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* Any recommended VPS service?(Héctor A. Abreu)
+* Re: Any recommended VPS service?Matthew Ernisse
|`- Re: Any recommended VPS service?(Héctor A. Abreu)
`- Re: Any recommended VPS service?Eric Gillespie

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Subject: Any recommended VPS service?
From: (Héctor A. Abreu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc
Organization: spanix
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2023 13:00 UTC
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From: invalid@invalid.invalid ((Héctor A. Abreu))
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc
Subject: Any recommended VPS service?
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2023 13:00:23 -0000 (UTC)
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Hi,

I'd like to host a basic website and an IRC server on an OpenBSD box. I
checked some VPS services but they don't include 7.2 or 7.3 version of
OpenBSD, but only versions below 7.0. My IRC server won't have a lot of
traffic for now because it will be a private server. Any recommendations
on VPS for OpenBSD? Thank you in advance.

--
Héctor A. Abreu

Subject: Re: Any recommended VPS service?
From: Matthew Ernisse
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2023 17:26 UTC
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From: matt@going-flying.com (Matthew Ernisse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Any recommended VPS service?
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On Mon, 7 Aug 2023 13:00:23 -0000 (UTC), (Héctor A. Abreu)
<invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to host a basic website and an IRC server on an OpenBSD box. I
> checked some VPS services but they don't include 7.2 or 7.3 version of
> OpenBSD, but only versions below 7.0. My IRC server won't have a lot of
> traffic for now because it will be a private server. Any recommendations
> on VPS for OpenBSD? Thank you in advance.

Barring any other suggestions I've found many VPS providers to be slow for
updating their officially supported version lists. Usually this means you
install their image of (likely an older version) an OS but you can use the
included tools to upgrade to the latest version (sysupgrade(8) on OpenBSD).

I know there have been various successes running OpenBSD on VPS providers
that support other BSDs (I personally run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean under
their FreeBSD profile) but I'd only recommend that if you already have a
relationship with a VPS provider and don't want to establish another.

You may want to look at https://openbsd.amsterdam -- they run OpenBSD's
built-in hypervisor vmm(8).

--
"The avalanche has started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote."
--Kosh

Subject: Re: Any recommended VPS service?
From: (Héctor A. Abreu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc
Organization: spanix
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2023 20:37 UTC
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From: invalid@invalid.invalid ((Héctor A. Abreu))
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Any recommended VPS service?
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2023 20:37:27 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2023-08-07, Matthew Ernisse <matt@going-flying.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Aug 2023 13:00:23 -0000 (UTC), (Héctor A. Abreu)
> <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to host a basic website and an IRC server on an OpenBSD box. I
>> checked some VPS services but they don't include 7.2 or 7.3 version of
>> OpenBSD, but only versions below 7.0. My IRC server won't have a lot of
>> traffic for now because it will be a private server. Any recommendations
>> on VPS for OpenBSD? Thank you in advance.
>
> Barring any other suggestions I've found many VPS providers to be slow for
> updating their officially supported version lists. Usually this means you
> install their image of (likely an older version) an OS but you can use the
> included tools to upgrade to the latest version (sysupgrade(8) on OpenBSD).
>
> I know there have been various successes running OpenBSD on VPS providers
> that support other BSDs (I personally run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean under
> their FreeBSD profile) but I'd only recommend that if you already have a
> relationship with a VPS provider and don't want to establish another.
>
> You may want to look at https://openbsd.amsterdam -- they run OpenBSD's
> built-in hypervisor vmm(8).
>

Great tip, thank you! I was looking at Vultr but definitely
openbsd.amsterdam can make more sense for my particular interests and
requirements.

Regards,
--
Héctor A. Abreu

Subject: Re: Any recommended VPS service?
From: Eric Gillespie
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 16:33 UTC
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From: epg@hassadar.pretzelnet.org (Eric Gillespie)
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Subject: Re: Any recommended VPS service?
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> I'd like to host a basic website and an IRC server on an OpenBSD box. I
> checked some VPS services but they don't include 7.2 or 7.3 version of
> OpenBSD, but only versions below 7.0. My IRC server won't have a lot of
> traffic for now because it will be a private server. Any recommendations
> on VPS for OpenBSD? Thank you in advance.

Panix doesn't list 7.3 currently, but assuming the page isn't
simply out of date, I imagine they'll quickly add 7.3 if you ask.

https://panix.com/v-colo/systems.html#openbsd

--
Eric Gillespie <*> epg@pretzelnet.org

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