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List:       freebsd-stable
Subject:    Re: EV1 Servers makes me sick
From:       Art Mason <amason () rackspace ! com>
Date:       2006-10-02 20:14:25
Message-ID: 200610021514.25844.amason () rackspace ! com
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On Monday 02 October 2006 13:52, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> Colin Percival wrote:
> > Eduardo Meyer wrote:
> >> "if your server is re-imaged with 6.0 vs the 5.4 version currently
> >> installed we will not be able to support this. We have found that the
> >> versions after 5.4 are inherantly unstable. Please let us know what
> >> course of action you would like to take."
> >
> > EV1Servers has never been a major supporter of FreeBSD -- back when
> > they were RackShack, it took a petition of several hundred people
> > before they started offering FreeBSD at all.
> >
> > I wonder if they'll start offering more recent FreeBSD releases next
> > month after FreeBSD 5.4 becomes unsupported...
>
> I know I was able to request (from ThePlanet, which merged with EV1) a
> FreeBSD-6.1 system,
>  and they didn't give me the "unsupported" line.
>
> (this was within the last month for one of my clients).
>
> LER

Hmmm, hope I'm not offending any members of the list by stating this, but we 
are currently offering 6.1-RELEASE as a customer-requested OS kick option.  
In addition, I can happily confirm through personal experience that PHP 4 and 
5 run quite happily on it.  Now building it from source RPM on a RedHat 
Enterprise Linux platform is another thing, but I digress...

Fear the daemon!

-- 
Art Mason
amason@rackspace.com
Intensive Network Security
Rackspace Managed Hosting
(800) 961-4454 ext. 4290

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