[vox-tech] OpenVZ

Brian Lavender brian at brie.com
Tue Sep 22 14:54:34 PDT 2009


I think OpenVZ is a good choice. I look forward to hearing about your
experience. 

brian

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 04:53:39PM -0700, Rod Roark wrote:
> Lugod.org has been taxing my DSL recently, so I'm considering moving it
> to a hosted server that I've had for a while.  It runs Ubuntu Hardy 
> (8.04), server edition.
> 
> I want to put it into its own virtual private server -- NOT in a
> "virtual machine", but rather using "operating system level
> virtualization" such as OpenVZ or Linux-VServer.  I figure this will get
> me the desired isolation/containerization without significant
> performance degradation.  The VPS would run Apache 2, PHP, Postfix, 
> Mailman and other appropriate components.
> 
> I'm leaning towards OpenVZ as this seems to be directly installable via
> the Ubuntu (multiverse) repositories with very little hassle.  Does 
> anyone have experience with this or similar software that I should 
> consider before making this choice?

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Brian Lavender
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