Re: Web + email hosting recommendations

[Christopher Pinon <cjpinon%secondfloor.xyz@localhost>]

Mark Carroll <mtbc%ixod.org@localhost> wrote:

> On 08 May 2019, mayuresh%acm.org@localhost wrote:
> 
> > What could be NetBSD-specific issues that would require provider's help? I
> > have faced none till now. Just curious.
> 
> At least for VPS sometimes one suffers from the imperfect imitation
> provided by the virtualization platform where kernel- or driver-specific
> issues arise. For example, I may now be misremembering details but I
> /think/ that with Bytemark I was running into weird timing issues with
> OpenBSD but not NetBSD and the problem turned out to be specific to the
> version of KVM that they were running (and there was a KVM config option
> that could work around it). The bug centered on the emulation of local
> APIC in repeated mode: commands like "sleep 1" would take increasingly
> long, the longer the server was up! In those cases, having a provider
> who knows what the BSDs are and has other customers using them (so they
> can confirm issues, try moving to different nodes, prioritize for
> virtualization platform adjustment or upgrade, etc.) is welcome.

It's certainly the case that it helps if the provider is knowledgeable
about *BSD, but unfortunately, this tends to be the exception.

In my experience, nowadays, KVM and NetBSD play pretty well together,
but yes, it's always possible for obscure KVM-related issues to arise.

C.