Thanks to all for the sage advice. I had a sinking feeling when I looked at $6.95 per month VPSs. Still I have a few clients that want to be on "our" servers or "network" and I really want to cover my @$$ while remaining inclusive.
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Jean-Michel Dault < [email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 11:23 -0400, Jim Tarvid wrote: > > Looking for recommendations for the software platform to host virtual > > private servers. > > Some of my clients would like shell accounts. I am not enthusiastic > > about giving those out on shared servers. > > People are selling VPSs for less than $10 per month. > > How is that possible? > > Most hosting companies use Virtuozzo (commercial) or OpenVZ > (open-source) to create VPSs. It gives each customer their own isolated > environment, CPU quota, Disk quota, without the overhead of full > virtualization solutions like VMWare. > > At Revolution Linux, we use OpenVZ, both for development and > production. > > You can run OpenVZ on any machine, from low-end desktops (one of our > techs has 15 VPSs on an old Celeron) up to the high-end servers. No need > for VT extensions or anything special. > > For production, our typical server looks like this: > - Standard Off-the-shelf rackmountable Dual Xeon, 8 gigs RAM, with > plenty of hard drive space in RAID. > - Standard Hardy 8.04.3 LTS, with the linux-image-openvz (in Universe) > - A hundred or so VPSs per server > > To the end user, it's just as if they had their own dedicated server. > Each VPS has complete root access, but can't touch the hardware (no > fdisk, reboot, etc), or even see that there are other people or > processes on the machine. > > Provisioning is easy: you can build a template, then simply extract the > template in the VZ directory, create a configuration file, assign IP > address and start the VPS. It can be scripted easily. At the office, we > asked our (non-technie) Human Resources director to create a VPS and she > managed to do it without help. ;-) > > > More info: > http://revolutionlinux.com/Virtualization?lang=en > http://wiki.openvz.org/Main_Page > > > -- > Jean-Michel Dault > Technology Architect > [email protected] > Révolution Linux inc > http://www.revolutionlinux.com > > -- http://ls.net http://drupal.ls.net Latitude: 36.5831° Longitude: -81.0940° Ubi caritas et amor Deus ibi est
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