Post #2178225

2026-04-13 21:20 UTC

Could I use FreeBSD to provide small-scale VPS hosting in a multi-tenancy setup? It doesn&#39;t need to be fancy, power user skills could be assumed, but things would need to be properly isolated from each other. Minimal features would be providing console access and power on/power off/reboot features. Nice to have is uploading and mounting your own ISO. When I previously asked a similar question at illumos Cafe, the answer was Triton Datacenter. As far as I can tell, FreeBSD doesn&#39;t have anything close to that. I&#39;ve looked for VPS hosting providers that run FreeBSD underneath but haven&#39;t found a lot. Even FreeBSD-focused companies usually turn out to use Xen underneath. The closest thing is probably OpenBSD Amsterdam, which is of course not FreeBSD. #freebsd #hosting #vps #openbsd #cloud

Replies (5)

@zolaris@mastodon.illumos.cafe 2026-04-13 21:43

@jaap@mastodon.bsd.cafe what about Illumos?

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@brendan@social.brendans-bits.com 2026-04-14 00:21

@jaap@mastodon.bsd.cafe There's an actively developed project called 'Sylve' which is sponsored by the FreeBSD Foundation - looks like it replicates proxmox for FreeBSD. May have some of what you're looking for. The developer, Hayzam (?) is active on the Fediverse.

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@toxy@mastodon.acc.sunet.se 2026-04-14 07:24

@jaap@mastodon.bsd.cafe Digital Ocean used to have FreeBSD VPSs.

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@philvuchetich@bsd.network 2026-04-14 08:05

@jaap@mastodon.bsd.cafe you might see what @gyptazy did for @BoxyBSD@mastodon.bsd.cafe hosting project. That project is winding down in a few weeks. It was free for end users.

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@benjamineskola@hachyderm.io 2026-04-14 09:07

@jaap@mastodon.bsd.cafe I remember there used to be FreeBSD hosting using jails, but obviously that has limitations. I presume you could use bhyve in the same way that openbsd.amsterdam uses OpenBSD’s vmm?

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