Why are data centers avoiding FreeBSD?

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m4a12012-09-28 09:46:23

FreeBSD

m4a1, 2012-09-28 09:46:23

For various projects and client sites, sometimes you have to rent VDS from hetzner, leaseweb, etc. From the very first configured server to this day I have used FreeBSD. Recently I have noticed that data centers do not offer it as an OS option for installation on a server. Leaseweb puts on request in order comments, Hetzner by default includes rescue from Linux. Right now I'm looking at Clodo and there is no FreeBSD in the OS list.
What is the problem with FreeBSD? Maybe it's time to switch from it to Linux?

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z0rc, 2012-09-28
@m4a1

FreeBSD has gained sufficient popularity only in the CIS. At the same time, Solaris was planted everywhere abroad. Now Solaris is dead, and everyone has quietly moved to Linux. Often foreigners are very surprised how we have so many people who love FreeBSD.
Demand for FreeBSD is low, and at the moment it does not stand out as something unique or high performing. Still, take a closer look at Linux.

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Rafael Osipov, 2012-09-28
@Rafael

Maybe it's the number of specialists for this OS? If there are not enough specialists, or they are expensive, then this may be the reason, I suppose.

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amarao, 2012-09-28
@amarao

I tell:
1) FreeBSD had some troubles with paravirtualization.
2) FreeBSD needs separate people who know it. The simplest resource saving. There are even fewer requests for FreeBSD than for windows.

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Vlad Zhivotnev, 2012-09-28
@inkvizitor68sl

Hetzner has FreeBSD and installs without a single problem.
Rescue switching is not a problem. Including for virtual machines.

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vase, 2012-10-01
@vase

FreeBSD still has problems with paravirtualization - SMP does not work, the 32-bit mode is not finished at all. Live migration and so on in paravirt also most likely do not work.
In fact, fryakha can only be given in HVM (like Windows), but the demand for it is really so small that it simply makes no sense to waste human resources.

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Jammarra, 2012-10-01
@Jammarra

ruweb on the contrary only works with freeBSD. It's sad that support for Zend Optimizer under freeBSD has been discontinued, for php 5.3 it is no longer available.

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vjjvr, 2016-11-23
@vjjvr

At a time when ISPSystem supported FreeBSD, 80% of shared hosting in Russia sat on it.