Category Archives: Announcements

*BSD Developers Have a New Hosting Option with RootBSD — for *BSD Developers, by *BSD Developers

Date published: February 26th, 2016
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Date published: 2016-02-25 12:09:00

CARY, NC (PRWEB) FEBRUARY 25, 2016

*BSD developers and fans of OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD have new hosting options with RootBSD!

While other hosting providers offer limited *BSD options, usually Linux and with limited scalability, RootBSD goes online, offering rock-solid *BSD-based hosting services that’s reliable that’s designed to meet the needs of professional and business clients.

OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD are supported by RootBSD. The company offers the global presence in 25 datacenters located in North America, South America, Europe and Asia that boost customers’ global presence and that’s usually offered by hosting providers who are not as *BSD-friendly. Bare metal FreeBSD servers are deployed, instantly, to any of RootBSD’s data centers, no matter where they are.

Just as important to any fan of *BSD, RootBSD has an ongoing commitment and sponsorship of *BSD projects and events. The company avidly supports and provides discounts to individuals and organizations that play an active role in *BSD development.

“We formed RootBSD because *BSD was often given second-class citizen status at many hosting companies,” said Mark Price, RootBSD’s CEO. “*BSD always comes first at RootBSD, and we offer the same datacenter options as other hosting companies — it’s just that we also support RootBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD, and not just Linux.’

In addition, all RootBSD services come with a native IPv6 connection. RootBSD has provided *BSD IPv6 capable services for years. With the exhaustion of older, legacy “IPv4” address space, IPv6 capability is becoming a critical requirement for any online presence and RootBSD is able to bring that to the *BSD world.

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About RootBSD:

Frustrated by the haphazard *BSD hosting options of other providers and that did not meet their demands for business reliability and scalability, the founders of RootBSD established the company to provide reliable, flexible and supported BSD-based hosting services for professionals and businesses. RootBSD is part of Tranquil Hosting and has access to its 25 datacenters throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit https://www.rootbsd.net.

https://www.rootbsd.net/news/51/BSD-Developers-Have-a-New-Hosting-Option-with-RootBSD–for-BSD-Developers-by-BSD-Developers.html

Welcome FreeBSD Foundation To RootBSD

Date published: November 4th, 2015
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The folks here at RootBSD are very proud to announce that we are now providing the wonderful team over at the FreeBSD Foundation with co-location services in one of our new datacenters! We assume that most of you would already be familiar with this organization, but just in case you’re not then feel free to head on over to their site and take a look at everything this amazing foundation has done in terms of assisting with the progression of the FreeBSD project. We would also highly suggest subscribing to the FreeBSD Journal if you haven’t already to keep up with the latest releases and new developments within the FreeBSD community.

From all of us here at RootBSD, many thanks to the FreeBSD Foundation for everything you’ve done!

vBSDcon 2015 Recap

Date published: October 5th, 2015
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Wow – Verisign gets HUGE props from RootBSD for vBSDcon 2015

Marketers: want a clinic in how to roll out the red carpet and run a technical event like a Rolex? Go to the next one.

BSD hackers: if you missed it, you missed a 5-star event – but don’t worry too much – they rocked the cameras and all the talks are on YouTube

Instead of a long written blog, we’re going to let our pics, tweets and retweets do the talking.

Look carefully – you might find a special hosting offer in here 🙂

 


Silicon Valley Data Center Pre-Launch Promotion

FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE Available

Date published: August 19th, 2015
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The FreeBSD Foundation recently released version 10.2-RELEASE for download which improves upon the stability of FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE and introduces an array of new features. A few highlights of this new release include:

* The resolvconf(8) utility has been updated to version 3.7.0, with improvements to protect DNS privacy.

* The ntp suite has been updated to version 4.2.8p3.

* A new rc(8) script, growfs, has been added, which will resize the root filesystem on boot if the /firstboot file exists.

* The Linux® compatibility version has been updated to support Centos™ 6 ports.

* The drm code has been updated to match Linux® version 3.8.13, allowing running multiple X servers simultaneously.

* Several enhancements and updates for improved FreeBSD/arm support.

* Several ZFS performance and reliability improvements.

* GNOME has been updated to version 3.14.2.

* KDE has been updated to version 4.14.3.

To see the FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE release notes in full, head on over to the FreeBSD.org page detailing all the changes, additions, and improvements made.

We at RootBSD would like to inform you that as of today, this new release is now available as an install option for all of our VPS and Dedicated Server packages. If you would like to start fresh with a new FreeBSD 10.2 server, we do offer the ability for us to provision you an entirely new server with FreeBSD 10.2 pre-installed and grant you a week’s worth of time to migrate all existing data from your old server to the new one. If this is something that interests you, please open a ticket and we will be happy to assist.