AARRRGGGHHH - having a tough day today! This morning my #VPS provider sent me an email that they are shutting down TODAY, and I'm left looking for a VPS provide that supports #FreeBSD AND can provide #IPv4 + #IPv6, AND is inexpensive...
Any VPS provider not supporting IPv6 nowadays is really lagging behind.
Thanks for all the suggestions, I ended up selecting Vultr, which I had tested before, not as inexpensive as my previous solution, but they seem to be solid and hopefully not leaving me stranded without notice.
#ShoutOut and #FollowFriday to everyone that came to my help: @jtk @AMDmi3 @beasts @Dragon @kinocounty@bsd.cafe @dentangle @mosu @CenturyAvocado @tschaefer
Now that everything is back up and working in the new provider, I will be testing some other VPS services in the US South Central, I need IPv4 + IPv6, low latency, and eventually I want to add a pfSense server on the VPS so I can offload some stuff from my homelab more easily than my current setup.
@techviator You could look into https://www.hetzner.com/ They don't seem to offer FreeBSD during VPS setup, but you can easily upload your own ISO & re-install from that via the virtual console. There are CLI solutions using their "hcloud" API access tool as well, e.g. https://gist.github.com/strfry/b9383f5f823bf508b7b3a858a6cb3168 German company with datacenters in Germany, Finland & the USA. Regarded very highly & pretty famous here in Germany.
@techviator Not officially "supported" as such, but possible on linode:
https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/install-freebsd-on-linode/
@techviator maybe hetzner who can offer Germany Finland or the USA.
Or if UK then @beasts is worth a look and Infact with them ipv6 is the default and v4 is an addon
@Dragon @techviator we also have Amsterdam and Fremont USA
@techviator I won't expect official FreeBSD support from a lot of/any providers, but look for providers which support installation from custom iso (would you trust prebuilt system image anyway?).
@techviator Many providers give you the option to load your own ISO, will that work? I could probably list a few more if you haven't found something suitable yet.