Why Upgrade to a New FreeBSD Virtual Private Servers? The new generation of Virtual Private Servers featuring the FreeBSD Unix O/S promises our customers greater performance, enhanced reliability, more flexibility, and better security. FreeBSD is an industry standard A large portion of the Internet is currently powered by FreeBSD. Over 30% of ISPs and web hosting companies have chosen FreeBSD because of its excellent performance and reliability. In addition, some of the busiest and most successful Internet sites in the world use FreeBSD, including: ftp.cdrom.com - the Internet's busiest FTP site Yahoo! - the Internet's largest portal and search engine HotMail - a leading e-mail provider MP3.com - a leading music download site The success of these sites proves that FreeBSD is one of the most powerful and scalable operating systems available. Now you can take advantage of this same power and scalability. FreeBSD has excellent third-party software support Over 3,000 different applications run on FreeBSD. In addition, compatibility modules enable programs for other operating systems to run on FreeBSD, including programs for Linux, BSDi, NetBSD, and SCO. What this means is that you will not have to recompile programs already compiled for one of the compatible OS's, and you will have access to a greater selection of off-the-shelf software. You will be able to pick the applications that suit your needs, not just the needs of your hosting provider. Our FreeBSD Virtual Private Servers include many new performance and security features Buffer overrun detection and prevention (our staff is paged and notified of attack) Race condition prevention (each Virtual Private Servers has its own /tmp space) Better isolation User files are hidden from other users User processes are hidden from other users   Many new services are offered on the FreeBSD Virtual Private servers Here is just a sampling: Telnet/FTP/SMTP/POP/IMAP over SSL Excellent Java support RealSystem G2 Basic Server support TWIG - Web-Based E-Mail and More   All new Virtual Private Servers development will take place on the FreeBSD platform Operating system updates, web server upgrades, and new product implementations will all occur on FreeBSD (and FreeBSD only). For example, Apache 1.3 will only be available on the FreeBSD servers. Apache 1.3 will feature many new modules including mod_perl and mod_jserv (servlets). It will be necessary to have a FreeBSD Virtual Private Servers to take advantage of future product releases. In addition, FreeBSD is the only platform that will be supported in the new data centers. The ultimate plan is to migrate all BSDi Virtual Private servers to FreeBSD. More reliable, redundant, and powerful hardware All of the server hardware for the FreeBSD machines is brand new. In addition, the machines have dual processors and redundant hard drive configurations. Redundant hard drives will provide uninterrupted service even in the case of a hard drive failure. The hard drive configuration on the BSDi servers guards against any data loss in the event of a hard drive failure, but service is disrupted until the drive is replaced. All new FreeBSD servers are now located in our new San Jose, CA, and Dulles, VA Data Centers These start-of-the-art facilities are each at one of the premier network peering points in the world. our Tier 1 status and the ability to privately peer with all other Tier 1 backbones, provides excellent connectivity to your Virtual Private servers.