About VPS
Virtual Private Systems (short VPS) is an operating system level virtualization implementation for the FreeBSD operating system.
See Wikipedia article for an explanation of OS level virtualization and a comparison of different virtualization types.
As of 2014-01-15 VPS is feature-complete and in beta status. See Roadmap.
Potential use cases are:
- High availability
- Server consolidation
- Mass hosting
- Separation of services
Virtual servers can be (automatically) restored from snapshots in seconds.
For hardware maintenance, the virtual servers can be live-migrated to another physical host, not losing a single TCP connection.
Many virtual servers can be put on a few physical hosts, allowing much better hardware utilization. In case resources get short, virtual servers can be live-migrated to new physical hosts.
Very many (dozens to hundreds) virtual servers can be put on one physical host and therefore be provided to customers very cheaply.
Security can be increased by separating services and putting them into dedicated virtual servers.
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