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iServer Migrating to FreeBSD

Posted by Nik on from the flying-south-for-the-winter dept.

Scott Brady writes "In an announcement to customers November 11, Virtual Server provider iServer announced plans to migrate from BSDi to the more open FreeBSD on ''...[n]ew Virtual Server accounts provisioned after November 23, 1999". They went on to say that "...we anticipate that all Virtual Servers will eventually be migrated to the new FreeBSD Virtual Server platform.'' Look for an official announcement to be forthcoming. "

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  1. So far, only old news by Mithy · · Score: 3

    The only thing I could find on the website about migration to FreeBSD was this snippet, dated September 30:

    'Any UNIX Dedicated Servers ordered after Sunday October 3 will be set up and configured in our new data center in Vienna, VA instead of Orem, UT and will run FreeBSD 3.2 instead of BSDi Unix. The core software services (Apache, FTP, POP, IMAP, SMTP) will be available as before. However, some of the "contrib" software has not yet been ported to the FreeBSD platform. We expect to have the full complement of contrib software ported to FreeBSD in the very near future.'

    So it looks like it's been a part of their ongoing strategy for a little while. Good to see FreeBSD get one over on the closed-source competition, though. :)

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  2. Guess who used to work for iServer by heroine · · Score: 2

    I know someone who used to work for them back when they were one of the first virtual hosting providers. Hard to believe they stuck with BSDi as long as they did, when the amount of competition in that business has gone from 0 to infinity. Hopefully the Utah weather hasn't gotten any worse than it already was.