From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 5 23:55:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B74737B401 for ; Sat, 5 Jul 2003 23:55:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from geminix.org (gen129.n001.c02.escapebox.net [213.73.91.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EF3A43FAF for ; Sat, 5 Jul 2003 23:55:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gemini@geminix.org) Message-ID: <3F07C7EE.8030405@geminix.org> Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2003 08:55:42 +0200 From: Uwe Doering Organization: Private UNIX Site User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20030705163119.4709fe81.redbrick1@terra.com.br> <20030705193905.GA712@outreachnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <20030705193905.GA712@outreachnetworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from gemini by geminix.org with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 3.36 #1) id 19Z3R1-000K1h-00; Sun, 06 Jul 2003 08:55:44 +0200 Subject: Re: FreeBSD Virtual Server X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2003 06:55:46 -0000 Eric L Howard wrote: > At a certain time, now past [Jul.05.2003-04:31:19PM -0300], redbrick1@terra.com.br spake thusly: > >>I have been browsing for web hosting and I found some firms (one of them >>is ) offering 'virtual server hosting using >>FreeBSD'. They say that virtual server is different from virtual host, >>for the first is a completely separated enviroment, like a standalone >>server. >>[...] > > See jail(8). Right, but jail(8) is just a start. For users with higher expectations (read: business customers) you would need a couple of extra features, like the ability to inject processes into already running jails, real (per jail) SysV shared memory support etc. I think FreeBSD 5.x has at least the process injection feature now, but the downside is that you probably don't want to use 5.x for production so far, at least not with paying customers. On the other hand, if it's just for personal use, jail(8) and FreeBSD 5.x should be okay. My two cents. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers gemini@geminix.org | http://www.escapebox.net