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by dallagi 4734 days ago
Is FreeBSD supported?
3 comments
vially 4734 days ago
Not yet but apparently they started working on it: https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-oce...
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JeremyMorgan 4734 days ago
The first one to successfully do this will definitely get me to open my wallet.
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gregf 4734 days ago
AWS has freebsd.
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cynix 4734 days ago
But you have to pay the Windows tax on most instance types if you want to use FreeBSD.
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gregf 4733 days ago
I think you should go look at ec2 pricing. Linux/BSD instances are cheaper to run per hour than there windows counter parts.

Scroll down a page or so to view the pricing charts.

https://aws.amazon.com/windows/ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/

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cynix 4733 days ago
The FreeBSD images can only be run on Windows instances (except for a few expensive instance types). That's why I said you have to pay the Windows tax if you want to run FreeBSD on EC2.
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dbond 4734 days ago
Nope, just various linux flavours
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