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Date:      Sun, 6 Jul 2003 23:47:57 -0300 (ADT)
From:      The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Darren Henderson <darren@nighttide.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Virtual Server
Message-ID:  <20030706234642.F53667@hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.53.0307062233090.10377@olmec>
References:  <20030705163119.4709fe81.redbrick1@terra.com.br> <Pine.BSF.4.53.0307062233090.10377@olmec>

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On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Darren Henderson wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, redbrick wrote:
>
> > I have been browsing for web hosting and I found some firms (one of them
> > is <http://www.hub.org>) 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.
>
> Always read the small print. All of it.
>
> There is at least one outfit that actually tries to sell this
> kind of thing, shared hosting using jails, as a collocated UNIX server.

We don't ... we advertise it purely as a virtual server / machine ... full
root is provided to the VM so that clients can operate it as if it was its
own machine, but we very clearly spell it out as *virtual* ...



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