Intermediate level articles on virtual private servers
What is KVM Virtualization and what is it good for?
Virtualization is a technology that allows you to run multiple operating systems on a single server. You can think of it as partitioning a large physical server into smaller virtual machines that each...
Written by Walter Boatwright
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What is XEN Virtualization?
Xen is an open source virtualization process that provides a hypervisor. XEN is a hypervisor that allows you to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on your computer Xen allows multiple opera...
Written by Jonathan Spangler
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What is OpenVZ?
OpenVZ is a container-based virtualization solution that lets you run multiple virtual machines on a single physical server. Each instance of an OpenVZ host runs its own copy of the operating system a...
Written by Erica Miller
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What is VirtualBox?
VirtualBox is a virtualization software developed by Oracle Corporation. It's primarily used to run multiple operating systems on the same PC. A virtual machine (VM) is an isolated operating system en...