Hetzner no longer offers direct install of FreeBSD, but we can do it ourselves. Here is how :)
Boot the Hetzner server in Hetzner Debian based rescue mode. ssh into it.
The Hetzner rescue image will tell you hardware details about the server in the login banner. For example, with one of my servers I see:
| #!/bin/bash | |
| # Parallel rsync script originally designed for rsyncing | |
| # large ata transfers from RAID to RAID for the Aagaard Lab. | |
| # Author: Michael Jochum | |
| # Location: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA | |
| # Contact : [email protected] | |
| # Date : 2 November 2020 | |
| ################################## | |
| #Step 0: fill this shit out |
| # Kernel sysctl configuration file for Linux | |
| # | |
| # Version 1.14 - 2019-04-05 | |
| # Michiel Klaver - IT Professional | |
| # http://klaver.it/linux/ for the latest version - http://klaver.it/bsd/ for a BSD variant | |
| # | |
| # This file should be saved as /etc/sysctl.conf and can be activated using the command: | |
| # sysctl -e -p /etc/sysctl.conf | |
| # | |
| # For binary values, 0 is disabled, 1 is enabled. See sysctl(8) and sysctl.conf(5) for more details. |
| [opcache] | |
| ; Determines if Zend OPCache is enabled | |
| opcache.enable=1 | |
| ; Determines if Zend OPCache is enabled for the CLI version of PHP | |
| ;opcache.enable_cli=1 | |
| ; The OPcache shared memory storage size. | |
| opcache.memory_consumption=512 |