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NOTE: Even though I've accepted an answer for this, if you have a better one, please put it below. Thanks!

I'm looking for recommendations from the wise and all-knowing Server Fault community on cloud hosting providers that support running FreeBSD. Ideally ones that don't require special tweaks to the FreeBSD system, but any recommendations would be appreciated. Suggestions? Recommendations? Advice? Tips? War stories? Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Ideally I'm looking for virtual providers, but will consider bare-metal options too. Will leave the question open for a few more days and then pick an answer, thanks to those that have submitted so far.

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http://arpnetworks.com/ gives very affordable VPS solutions. You get VNC and serial console access, and can boot off an unmodified FreeBSD-8.0 release DVD in the "tray", so you can rewrite your boot disk to your heart's content. Very happy with them.

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I have been using RootBSD (http://www.rootbsd.net/) for years and remain impressed. Low-cost, excellent tech support. Lots of different VPS plans.

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Mine are hosted at joinvps.com; I have to admit I was worried when their prices started at $5/mo, but I haven't had a single problem yet. I haven't contacted their support either, so I don't know how good their support is, again no problems necessitating it.

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It might be worth looking at non-virtualised (bare metal) cloud infrastructure providers. The two that I know of are SoftLayer's offering and NewServers (which I use, albeit with Linux).

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I second the suggestion of NewServers. I use them and they give you all the benefits of cloud hosting, but the flexibility of dedicated bare-metal servers.

I don't know if they have FreeBSD images, but even if they don't you get complete access to the server. So you can view the console, reboot, go into the BIOS, store an image to be booted from and install FreeBSD yourself. Then create images, clone servers and tweak FreeBSD to your heart's content.

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Amazon EC2 is supported with FreeBSD 8.2-RC1.

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There also is CloudSigma in Switzerland which might be a good choice if you're concerned about US Internet legislature and privacy related stuff.

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