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OpenVZ Done Right - Your Guide to VPS Accounts

    Blaine Bouvier's picture

    Hello and Welcome yet again. Today, I would like to discuss OpenVZ, and how it impacts your VPS Account.

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    First off, I'd like to start out by telling you what exactly OpenVZ is.

    According to the OpenVZ Wiki, they state the following: "OpenVZ is container-based virtualization for Linux. OpenVZ creates multiple secure, isolated containers (otherwise known as VEs or VPSs) on a single physical server enabling better server utilization and ensuring that applications do not conflict. Each container performs and executes exactly like a stand-alone server; a container can be rebooted independently and have root access, users, IP addresses, memory, processes, files, applications, system libraries and configuration files."

    In plain words, OpenVZ is what allows for the creation of Virtual Private Servers, which are each independent of other VPS accounts on the same physical server. Because of this, each user of their own VPS can customize how the server runs, without interfering with another hosting account on the same server.

    Continuing from the OpenVZ Wiki, they further explain: "Most applications running on a server can easily share a machine with others, if they could be isolated and secured. Further, in most situations, different operating systems are not required on the same server, merely multiple instances of a single operating system. OS-level virtualization systems have been designed to provide the required isolation and security to run multiple applications or copies of the same OS (but different distributions of the OS) on the same server. Virtualization on the OS level provides the best performance and scalability compared to other approaches. Performance difference of such systems can be as low as 1…3%, comparing with that of a standalone server. Virtual Environments are usually also much simpler to administer as all of them can be accessed and administered from the host system. Generally, such systems are the best choice for server consolidation of same OS workloads."

    What this means for you is really quite simple: You get the resources you need, without the performance loss from other virtual based technologies. This is as close as you can get to having a dedicated server, short of shelling out big bucks for a dedicated server.

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    >>Reference: http://wiki.openvz.org/Introduction_to_virtualization#Short_comparison