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FreeBSD 8.0 now available
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009Hello 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 [...]
An Introduction to the RootBSD Knowledgebase
Monday, July 6th, 2009For 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, 2009A 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 a [...]
Why FreeBSD?
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Whether or not you are new to the world of VPS’s (perhaps you read our entry a few days ago, “Why VPS?”), you may be wondering what the advantages are of a FreeBSD-based VPS. There are great reasons why many experts in virtual hosting, like RootBSD, have made this choice.
FreeBSD is a free operating [...]
Why VPS?
Saturday, July 19th, 2008Whether or not you’re already familiar with FreeBSD, if you’re new to the world of VPS’s, you might be wondering why to go with a VPS provider like RootBSD rather than a dedicated, private server. If so, read on!
VPS is an acronym for “virtual private server,” which is a method of partitioning physical computer [...]
How to add IP aliases
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008If you have been assigned extra IP addresses for a Xen VPS, here is how to configure them in your FreeBSD server.
Memory Upgrades
Monday, February 18th, 2008We have made some upgrades to memory limits on our FreeBSD VPS service. Our entry-level plan, Iota, now comes with 256MB of RAM, quite a deal for only $19.97 including our best in class server hardware and capable FreeBSD 6.2 OS setup.
All of our VPS plans received memory upgrades, which applies immediately to existing [...]
Check your VPS memory and disk usage
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007Hey everyone. Just getting an announcement out there about some new scripts that have been added to the jails of all our VPS users. We have added scripts to view memory usage, view disk usage, reboot, and halt from within the jail (i.e. on the command line). All of this has been available through the [...]
