From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 6 20:04:48 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 EB8FD37B401 for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:04:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from olmec.nighttide.net (jasper.nighttide.net [207.5.141.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B510043FCB for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:04:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darren@nighttide.net) Received: from localhost (darren@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olmec.nighttide.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6734kRp010593; Sun, 6 Jul 2003 23:04:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from darren@nighttide.net) Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 23:04:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Darren Henderson To: The Hermit Hacker In-Reply-To: <20030706234642.F53667@hub.org> Message-ID: References: <20030705163119.4709fe81.redbrick1@terra.com.br> <20030706234642.F53667@hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 03:04:49 -0000 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 ) 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 :)