<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://634/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Not sure of the discussion, but I can guess it's general scope ;)<div><br></div><div>I have used iWeb for quite a while, and they are pretty good. Based in Montreal, they used to support FreeBSD, but alas stopped supporting it a few weeks ago.</div><div><br></div><div>If you check their Warehouse Clearance section, you can get a pretty good deal on a dedicated machine (mine is a dual-core AMD with 8GB of ram for $69/month).</div><div><br></div><div>shawn</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 12, 2013, at 11:24 AM, "Adam Thompson" <<a href="mailto:athompso@athompso.net">athompso@athompso.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-CA" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Further to a discussion last night,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://OVH.com" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline; ">OVH.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is a French data center provider who has opened a large datacenter facility in Beauharnais, QC (just outside Montreal). They do not have any American facilities (except peering points). They claim to be OS-agnostic – although they don’t mention OpenBSD specifically, they do mention both FreeBSD and SmartOS. BSDCan2013 attendees got a one-month free trial of a dedicated server. (Impressively-polished video about it:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e97g7_qSxA" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e97g7_qSxA</a>)<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Meanwhile, BSWS.DE remains the only non-American OpenBSD-specific hosting provider I’m aware of – please provide more examples if you know of them! (All the Google results appear to have some American connection.)<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Note: I’m not trying to make a statement about the Patriot Act or doing business in the USA here, I’m just providing additional data to a conversation that was happening.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span>-Adam Thompson<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span><a href="mailto:athompso@athompso.net" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline; ">athompso@athompso.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Roundtable mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Roundtable@muug.mb.ca" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline; ">Roundtable@muug.mb.ca</a><br><a href="http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>