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MaheshaBSD by Juraj Sipos – A RootBSD hosted project

Friday, March 16th, 2012

Juraj Sipos http://www.freebsd.nfo.sk/maheshaeng.htm Introduction of MaheshaBSD-2.0 – What’s New On The Lake Manasarovar? MaheshaBSD-2.0, a FreeBSD Live CD (modular/education/presentation/rescue toolkit) based on FreeBSD 9.0, is introduced in this article. The Live CD was released in February 2012. The article will summarize the news in the new version of this distribution (for example, a [...]

Spam Filtering – “SpamStick”

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

What is SpamStick? SpamStick is RootBSD’s new spam filtering service for domains. It is a hosted filter service that will filter all the e-mail addresses for your domain. It does not require any installation or changes to your existing mail setup for your domain. There is a control panel which allows you to easily administer [...]

FreeBSD and Linux

Monday, December 14th, 2009

We thought it would be a good idea to help educate our current RootBSD users, and potential users, as to some of the differences between FreeBSD and Linux. We have nothing against Linux at all, we actually like it, however there are very noticeable differences in the two. Without turning this into too much of [...]

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 [...]

Now Serving 47 Countries

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

I was looking at our customer stats and pleased to see the strong mix of international customers that we have. FreeBSD is widely popular around the globe and our current customer base certainly reflects that. Right now we have active customers in 47 countries. I look forward to seeing FreeBSD users and businesses from even [...]

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 [...]

Another look at FreeBSD 8

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

A customer recently linked us to a blog post (http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html) that gives a really good look at what there is to come in the up-and-coming version 8 of the FreeBSD operating system. It looks like the FreeBSD developers have been busy and there are a number of new features which caught our eye. First, as [...]

Versions 1.0, the first easy to use Subversion Mac client

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

One of our customers, Sofa, recently released the first easy to use Subversion client for the Mac, named Versions. Version control is a critical piece to software development projects, and the tools and processes to handle versioning have often been pain points for development teams. The ability to easily visualize commits, notes and changes that [...]

Buildasearch lets users build search engines

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Buildasearch.com is a new website that lets anyone quickly build their own customized search engine. By signing up for a free account, users can quickly configure and customize their own search engine that can be used to search a predefined list of websites. Besides just harvesting the power of big search engines, Buildasearch.com lets users [...]

Plan Upgrades

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

We have made disk space upgrades on the two lowest (and most popular) VPS Plans: Iota VPS ($19.97/mo) is upgraded from 5GB disk to 10GB disk Lambda VPS ($29.97/mo) is upgraded from 15GB to 20GB disk All customers that are currently on either of these plans will see the upgrade immediately. Enjoy!