At DigitalOcean, our mission is to empower our customers by providing them with simple, reliable cloud infrastructure and we couldn’t be prouder to support customers and businesses like you developing world-class applications. We’re reaching out to let you know that we are phasing out our FreeBSD Droplet.

Starting July 1, 2022, FreeBSD Droplets will no longer be available. In order to simplify our cloud offerings and refocus our efforts on developing and maintaining distributions that our customers use most, we’re ending support for new FreeBSD Droplets.

Beginning June 1, 2022, you will no longer be able to create FreeBSD-based Droplets through the cloud control panel. You will still be able to create FreeBSD-based Droplets through the API until July 1, 2022, but after July 1, 2022, only legacy FreeBSD Droplets will remain on the platform.

Rest assured: Existing FreeBSD Droplets and FreeBSD Droplets created from May 1, 2022–July 1, 2022 will continue to work as usual despite these changes to our offerings.

You’ll also still be able to create Droplets using FreeBSD after July 1 by using DigitalOcean’s custom images feature to import a virtual disk image of FreeBSD OS. Custom images are free to upload and charged at $0.05 per GB per month to store.