Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:29:35 -0700 From: George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: How do they do their VPS product? [was Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?] Message-ID: <18522.35183.684254.289777@almost.alerce.com> In-Reply-To: <20080619034525.GA8205@shepherd> References: <20080619003131.GF51002@dereel.lemis.com> <20080619032726.0603654b@epia-2.farid-hajji.net> <26ddd1750806181937y232d5b1dg5f84a66e81697b68@mail.gmail.com> <20080619034525.GA8205@shepherd>
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Sahil Tandon writes: > Maxim Khitrov <mkhitrov@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm currently with JohnCompanies. Overall, it's been a positive > > experience, though I wish they offered FreeBSD 7. Beta testing for it > > was supposed to begin last month, but so far no news. > > +1 for JC. The tech support and availability is unparalleled. Satisfied > customer for over three years. Seeing JC advertise a FreeBSD VPS product reminded me of an itch I've never been able to scratch. I know about jails at the simple end, and I know about VMware at the complicated end, but I've never been able to figure out what technology underlies the VPS offerings. I help out a friend on a Verio VPS that reports itself as FreeBSD 4.7 w/ a kernel config file named VKERN. There's some concept of a virtual root, a command named 'virtual' works a bit like sudo does for credentials, and there's otherwise an odd mix of "it's all my machine" and "it's a shared server". Is/was there some proprietary virtualization technology in the 4.x days? Is it still alive and kicking somewhere? Anyone have any insights into how these VPS products were built? Thanks, g.home | help
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