Re: free ARM VPS
Dmitry Salychev <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
"Dave Cottlehuber" <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, 21 Mar 2024, at 06:56, Dmitry Salychev wrote: >> "Joseph Holsten" <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> There is a FreeBSD image in the “Marketplace”. There was a mixup >>> last fall and 14 isn’t up yet, but some foundation folks are >>> actively working on it. If you use the official one, it’s just a >>> quick freebsd-update to get you there. >>> >>> If you have trouble with the service, feel free to yell at >>> me. Juggling support tickets and ops projects for Oracle Cloud >>> Compute is my day job. I use FreeBSD daily outside work, I want it >>> not to suck. >> >> Is it really suitable as a replacement for a RootBSD/NetActuate VPS to run >> a mail server + some minor pieces? > > Hi Dmitry, > > Yes. TLDR consider them as fully fledged server CPUs because they are. > The hardest part is the signup process: > > - https://people.freebsd.org/~dch/posts/2021-06-02-oci-signup.html > > It's a standard arm64 CPUs from Ampere (hw.model: ARM Neoverse-N1 r3p1) > and quite capable of running anything. I run DBs (PostgreSQL, CouchDB), > DNS services & Phoenix web apps off them, all in jails ofc. The free > tier gives 4 CPU cores (no hyperthreading garbage!), 24GiB RAM, and > IIRC up to 200GiB storage. That's plenty. > > Here's an OCI ampere doing `openssl speed` (single threaded) > but very non-scientific as the ampere is running 14.0-RELEASE, and > Ten64 is ofc running CURRENT DEBUG + witness. > > Ampere: (14.0-RELEASE GENERIC) > type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes 16384 bytes > sha256 77675.94k 280389.41k 774386.13k 1396836.35k 1829590.81k 1871025.49k > > Ten64: (15-CURRENT DEBUG) > type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes 16384 bytes > sha256 13622.39k 50566.72k 166540.20k 387515.05k 641243.92k 665962.87k > > If you want to test something let me know. > > A+ > Dave Hi Dave, 4 CPU cores, 24GiB RAM, and 200GiB storage is significantly more then I'm paying NetActuate for on monthly basis :) It looks like I needed an account yesterday. Thanks for a comparison and all of the details! I'll try to sign up an tinker on my own first. Regards, Dmitry -- https://wiki.freebsd.org/DmitrySalychev