FreeVPS
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FreeVPS is a GPL-licensed virtualization patch for the Linux kernel developed by Positive Software Corporation. It was originally a fork of Linux-VServer.
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[edit] Description
FreeVPS is an open source software product that allows the partitioning of a single server into relatively isolated Virtual Private Servers (VPSs) using operating system-level virtualization.
Each VPS has:
- Complete Root Access
- Full-Featured System Administration as of a Physical Server
- Complete isolation of virtual server processes
- Independence from underlying hardware: virtual servers can be easily moved to another physical server
- Networking access/capabilities
- Own hostname
- Limitable Resource Consumption
- traffic
- disk space
- RAM
- number of running processes
- number of files
- Shared Administrative Tasks
- data backups
- task monitoring
- network traffic monitoring for each virtual server
- batch installation of RPMs on selected or all virtual servers
[edit] Similar technologies
Other implementations of operating system-level virtualization technology are OpenVZ/Virtuozzo, Linux-VServer, FreeBSD Jails, and Solaris Containers.
