Type of VPS Control Panel
Below is a quick run down of various types of VPS control panels that are available:
- Virtuozzo - One of the leading VPS control panels. Swsoft, the developer of Virtuozzo are allowing people to handle their VPS�s exactly like dedicated servers. With many options supported by the product you could do just about anything. Swsoft uses a technology different then others.
Virtuozzo allows users to use “Burstable RAM”. “Burstable RAM” is a technology supported by swsoft. Whenever a user needs more RAM than usual and there is a surplus of RAM used by other users on the server, “Burstable RAM” will allow that user to use more RAM for a limited time. This ability makes Virtuozzo very flexible. http://www.swsoft.com
- Vmware - Another leading VPS control panel in the web sector. Vmware allows users exactly the same opportunities given by Virtuozzo, although it doesn�t support the “Burstable RAM” technology. However it supports a different technology called “Multi-OS”. “Multi-OS” in other terms means, “Multi-Based Operating System”. With Vmware you can easily provide more then one operating system working on the same server. This allows companies to reduce costs by not having to purchase different server for different operating systems. http://www.vmware.com
- Xen - A newborn product still underdevelopment. However it is very popular and many companies have already adopted this VPS control panel because of it’s efficiency in limiting the amount of system resources used.
Normally a VPS control panels use high resources when running on a server. But as Xen uses different technique of resource management it has the same features provided by Virtuozzo (except that it doesn�t support “Burstable RAM” technology) and yet does not consume as much resources.
However please remember that Xen is still under development so there are a few bugs that need to be addressed and improvements that need to be made. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/