Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 23:04:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Darren Henderson <darren@nighttide.net> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Virtual Server Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.53.0307062249230.10377@olmec> In-Reply-To: <20030706234642.F53667@hub.org> References: <20030705163119.4709fe81.redbrick1@terra.com.br> <Pine.BSF.4.53.0307062233090.10377@olmec> <20030706234642.F53667@hub.org>
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On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > 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* ... I wasn't refering to www.hub.org - I have no knowledge of it. Didn't mean to imply that companies marketing virtual hosting - and stating that it is virtual hosting - are doing anything even remotely improper. Companies that are marketing virtual hosting and are claiming that it is something else would make me nervous. Merely a cautionary "buyer beware", Of course the original poster was looking for technology info - actually a question I think I've asked in the past as well. Pity FreeBSD doesn't run under IBM's VM - that would be interesting :)
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