VPS Hosting Stuff

Latest offering provides a number of new advantages and makes it even easier to manage virtual private servers.

Host Color, a provider of Virtuozzo VPS Hosting, today announced that it has made available Plesk 9.0 web hosting control panel to its VPS hosting customers.

The company claims that it has recently upgraded VPS Hosting services, and now powers them with the latest version of Virtuozzo Containers - Virtuozzo 4.0. The new Virtuozzo offers a number of new advantages and makes even easier the management of a virtual private server. It has better design interface that provides access to templates and sample virtual environments, plus a streamlined installation. The new release also offers “high availability” through a several new options to ensure maximum uptime and new backup enhancements, it adds.

“We are ready to provide stable VPS Hosting services with the new Plesk 9.0 web hosting control panel”, said Host Color’s Managing Director Alexander Avramov and advised the company’s customers to use the days before Christmas or vacation period to upgrade their software.

“There are many great features in Plesk Panel 9.0 such as enhanced interface for efficient navigation and the addition of a Reseller mode which enables our Resellers to better manage their VPS and to better organize their offerings”, said Mr. Avramov.

OpenVZ (the basis for the commercial Linux platform Virtuozzo) and Xen could be viewed as competing VPS platforms, however, the truth of the matter is that they are very different - read on to find out how the OpenVZ and Xen VPS platforms work, how they differ, and why the choice of OpenVZ or Xen is an easy one to make.

OpenVZ Virtualization

openvz vps hosting

OpenVZ is an operating system-level virtualization platform based on a single Linux kernel which has been modified to support multiple Linux virtual environments (more commonly referred to as virtual private servers).

The modified OpenVZ kernel isolates the file system, memory, and processes for each virtual environment, providing OpenVZ VPS administrators with full root access and all of the commands normally associated with a dedicated server.

Xen Paravirtualization

xen vps hosting

Xen is a paravirtualization platform which is very similar to hardware emulation. Paravirtualization works by creating an interface between the virtual environment’s operating system and the hardware which queues and responds to operating system requests from operating systems modified to interact with the paravirtualization interface.

This key difference from operating system-level virtualization allows Xen VPS administrators to modify their kernel modules, utilize swap space to meet memory allocation demands, and watch their Xen virtual private server’s boot process as Linux mounts virtualized devices.

Key Differences: