FreeBSD is finally available on DigitalOcean. I just launched a FreeBSD 10.1 VPS at AMS3 and it's looking really nice. IPv6 is available as an option and without any further configuration I was able to ping6 ipv6.google.com.
I've been using DigitalOcean for over a year now both for personal and work related VPS hosting. It's been both stable and fast. One of my personal VPS had more than a year uptime and during that time I think it only was unavailable for maybe 10-15 minutes totally. With SSD storage even the cheapest VPS feels fast.
With FreeBSD as an option it's probably time to replace my older Ubuntu 12.04 VPS. Someday, maybe.
If you want to try DigitalOcean and get $10 account credit please use my referral link https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=2c018b605f9b when signing up.
Presenting FreeBSD! How We Made It Happen. the blog post with additional information.
FreeBSD on DigitalOcean 512 MB VPS Ubench benchmark
Unix Benchmark Utility v.0.3
Copyright (C) July, 1999 PhysTech, Inc.
Author: Sergei Viznyuk <sv@phystech.com>
http://www.phystech.com/download/ubench.html
FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE #0 r274401: Tue Nov 11 21:02:49 UTC 2014 root@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
Ubench CPU: 267883
Ubench MEM: 124635
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Ubench AVG: 196259
FreeBSD on my personal server Intel Core i7-4771 with 16 GB DDR3 RAM. A lot higher CPU score since it's 4 core vs 1 on DigitalOcean.
Unix Benchmark Utility v.0.3
Copyright (C) July, 1999 PhysTech, Inc.
Author: Sergei Viznyuk <sv@phystech.com>
http://www.phystech.com/download/ubench.html
FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE #0 r274401: Tue Nov 11 21:02:49 UTC 2014 root@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
Ubench CPU: 1804071
Ubench MEM: 478912
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Ubench AVG: 1141491
FreeBSD on DigitalOcean dmesg
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FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE #0 r274401: Tue Nov 11 21:02:49 UTC 2014
root@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
FreeBSD clang version 3.4.1 (tags/RELEASE_34/dot1-final 208032) 20140512
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630L v2 @ 2.40GHz (2400.01-MHz K8-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x306e4 Family = 0x6 Model = 0x3e Stepping = 4
Features=0xf83fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS>
Features2=0xffba2223<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,VMX,SSSE3,CX16,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,POPCNT,TSCDLT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND,HV>
AMD Features=0x2c100800<SYSCALL,NX,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM>
AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
Structured Extended Features=0x202<TSCADJ,ERMS>
VT-x: (disabled in BIOS) PAT,HLT,PAUSE,EPT,UG
real memory = 536870912 (512 MB)
avail memory = 490553344 (467 MB)
Event timer "LAPIC" quality 400
ACPI APIC Table: <BOCHS BXPCAPIC>
ioapic0 <Version 1.1> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
kbd1 at kbdmux0
random: <Software, Yarrow> initialized
acpi0: <BOCHS BXPCRSDT> on motherboard
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
atrtc0: <AT realtime clock> port 0x70-0x71,0x72-0x77 irq 8 on acpi0
Event timer "RTC" frequency 32768 Hz quality 0
hpet0: <High Precision Event Timer> iomem 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff on acpi0
Timecounter "HPET" frequency 100000000 Hz quality 950
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 900
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0xb008-0xb00b on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel PIIX3 WDMA2 controller> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xc0a0-0xc0af at device 1.1 on pci0
ata0: <ATA channel> at channel 0 on atapci0
ata1: <ATA channel> at channel 1 on atapci0
uhci0: <Intel 82371SB (PIIX3) USB controller> port 0xc040-0xc05f irq 11 at device 1.2 on pci0
usbus0: controller did not stop
usbus0 on uhci0
pci0: <bridge> at device 1.3 (no driver attached)
vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> mem 0xfc000000-0xfdffffff,0xfebf0000-0xfebf0fff at device 2.0 on pci0
vgapci0: Boot video device
virtio_pci0: <VirtIO PCI Network adapter> port 0xc060-0xc07f mem 0xfebf1000-0xfebf1fff irq 11 at device 3.0 on pci0
vtnet0: <VirtIO Networking Adapter> on virtio_pci0
virtio_pci0: host features: 0x719fffe7 <EventIdx,RingIndirect,NotifyOnEmpty,SetMacAddress,RxModeExtra,VLanFilter,RxMode,ControlVq,Status,MrgRxBuf,TxUFO,TxTSOECN,TxTSOv6,TxTSOv4,RxUFO,RxECN,RxTSOv6,RxTSOv4,TxAllGSO,MacAddress,0x4,RxChecksum,TxChecksum>
virtio_pci0: negotiated features: 0x308fbbe3 <EventIdx,RingIndirect,SetMacAddress,VLanFilter,RxMode,ControlVq,Status,MrgRxBuf,TxTSOECN,TxTSOv6,TxTSOv4,RxECN,RxTSOv6,RxTSOv4,TxAllGSO,MacAddress,RxChecksum,TxChecksum>
vtnet0: Ethernet address: 04:01:3a:1c:e0:01
virtio_pci1: <VirtIO PCI Block adapter> port 0xc000-0xc03f mem 0xfebf2000-0xfebf2fff irq 11 at device 4.0 on pci0
vtblk0: <VirtIO Block Adapter> on virtio_pci1
virtio_pci1: host features: 0x71000cd4 <EventIdx,RingIndirect,NotifyOnEmpty,ConfigWCE,Topology,SCSICmds,BlockSize,DiskGeometry,MaxNumSegs>
virtio_pci1: negotiated features: 0x10000854 <RingIndirect,ConfigWCE,BlockSize,DiskGeometry,MaxNumSegs>
vtblk0: 21504MB (44040229 512 byte sectors)
virtio_pci2: <VirtIO PCI Balloon adapter> port 0xc080-0xc09f irq 10 at device 5.0 on pci0
vtballoon0: <VirtIO Balloon Adapter> on virtio_pci2
virtio_pci2: host features: 0x71000002 <EventIdx,RingIndirect,NotifyOnEmpty,StatsVq>
virtio_pci2: negotiated features: 0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: model IntelliMouse Explorer, device ID 4
fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f2-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
fdc0: does not respond
device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6
uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
uart0: console (9600,n,8,1)
orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc8fff,0xeb800-0xeffff on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
attimer0: <AT timer> at port 0x40 on isa0
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
Event timer "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100
fdc0: No FDOUT register!
ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
usbus0: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
ugen0.1: <Intel> at usbus0
uhub0: <Intel UHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus0
random: unblocking device.
Timecounter "TSC-low" frequency 1200005707 Hz quality 800
Root mount waiting for: usbus0
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/gpt/rootfs [rw,sync]...
Setting hostuuid: 313b65c8-ae43-4992-9d3a-55cef469f8bc.
Setting hostid: 0x0b5a9281.
Entropy harvesting: interrupts ethernet point_to_point swi.
Starting file system checks:
/dev/gpt/rootfs: FILE SYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS
/dev/gpt/rootfs: clean, 4513604 free (1972 frags, 563954 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation)
Mounting local file systems:.
Writing entropy file:.
Generating DigitalOcean configuration.
id: freebsd: no such user
vtbd0 recovering is not needed
kern.geom.debugflags: 0 -> 16
vtbd0p3 resized
Setting hostname: XXXXXX.
Starting Network: lo0 vtnet0.
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
vtnet0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=6c03bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,TSO6,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
ether XXXXXX
inet6 XXXXXX prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet XXXXXX netmask 0xffffc000 broadcast XXXXXX
inet6 XXXXXX prefixlen 64
nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
media: Ethernet 10Gbase-T <full-duplex>
status: active
Starting devd.
add net default: gateway XXXXXX
add net fe80::: gateway ::1
add net ff02::: gateway ::1
add net ::ffff:0.0.0.0: gateway ::1
add net ::0.0.0.0: gateway ::1
add net default: gateway XXXXXX
ELF ldconfig path: /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib/compat /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/libnet11
32-bit compatibility ldconfig path: /usr/lib32
Creating and/or trimming log files.
Starting syslogd.
Clearing /tmp (X related).
Starting local daemons:.
Updating motd:.
Mounting late file systems:.
Configuring syscons: blanktime.
Generating RSA1 host key.
Performing sanity check on sshd configuration.
Starting sshd.
Starting sendmail_submit.
Starting sendmail_msp_queue.
Starting cron.
Starting background file system checks in 60 seconds.
Fri Jan 16 21:32:17 UTC 2015