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FreeBSD 8.0 now available

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Hello all,
RootBSD is pleased to announce that FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE is now available on all of our Xen VPS Products. If you are an existing customer and need help upgrading to the latest release, please let us know, we will be happy to assist you with the upgrade.
Don’t forget we are still running several promotions [...]

Live Chat

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Hi Everyone,
RootBSD is pleased to announce the launch of our new “Live Chat” application. Look for the green “Chat Online” button at the top of each page.
We will have a live agent available for chat during our normal business hours, if live chat is not available, you may leave a message, or [...]

Beta Testers Wanted

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Hi All,
RootBSD is rolling out SPAM Filtering as a stand alone product to new clients or as an add-on product to existing VPS clients. We’re in search of people who would like to test this product for it’s ability to catch SPAM and it’s reliability in doing so.
We are also currently testing [...]

We’re on Facebook

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Hello,
Interact with us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/RootBSD. Become a fan and be the first to know about special offers and enhancements in our service.
Don’t forget about the Halloween special we are currently running for all new signups!

Halloween Special Offer

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Hello,
Currently offering 10% off the first month on all new sign ups until the end of October. When signing up use the promo code “Halloween” to get the discount.

An Introduction to the RootBSD Knowledgebase

Monday, July 6th, 2009

For a while now RootBSD has maintained a modest knowledgebase for its customers which is accessible by clicking Support from our website. Here you will find answers to questions that are common in support tickets, as well as information about procedures concerning your VPS. We just recently added a new entry titled Getting started with [...]

DNS Automation

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Previously, Reverse DNS requests for our customers were checked over and entered manually by our support staff. In the last few days we’ve made some improvements to RootCP, including automation of DNS requests. Now, when you request a Reverse DNS update in RootCP, it will be updated to our DNS servers instantly. You’ll still need [...]

BSD on Twitter

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

We joined the crowd and got on twitter. You can follow us, if thats your thing.

FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

In the last few days, the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team finalized 7.1-RELEASE and it is now available for donwload. We are now also offering the option for 7.1-RELEASE on new VPS setups. It is listed as an option in the signup process (along with 6.3 and 7.0).
Release Announcement

The ULE scheduler is now the default [...]

Connectivity Outage

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

Today there was a major disruption in Internet traffic affecting our network and many other sites in the USA such as Amazon S3, Facebook and more. It looks like the primary cause of the problem was with the Level(3) Internet backbone.
As of 2:45PM EST it seems that things have stabilized. If you are still having [...]