View Poll Results: What's your preferred VPS technology as a customer?

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  • Parallels Virtuozzo

    7 9.21%
  • OpenVZ

    14 18.42%
  • Xen

    50 65.79%
  • VMWare

    2 2.63%
  • Hyper-V

    3 3.95%
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  1. #1
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    Post Preferred VPS technology.

    Just a quick poll - As a VPS customer, what is your preferred VPS technology.

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    I prefer openvz

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    Has to be Xen , for it's reliability , stability and usability

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sposs View Post
    Has to be Xen , for it's reliability , stability and usability
    Agreed - Plus Xen is more like having a dedicated server, whereas OpenVZ is more like having a shared one.
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    As a customer, Xen or KVM.
    What did you expect was going to happen?
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    I prefer OpenVZ. Very simple and easy to manage

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    Lots of Xen fans - what control panel would you pair up with it?

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    Virtuozzo...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sposs View Post
    Has to be Xen , for it's reliability , stability and usability
    Quote Originally Posted by PhPhear View Post
    SolusVM
    It honestly doesn't get much better.

    If Solus support is great and the product is very stable.

    Still has a few things that need improving/implementing but so far we're very impressed.
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    OpenVZ makes VPS affordable
    and yes, Xen VPS is really fast
    I vote for OpenVZ

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    So it's clear that Xen is the favourite but is everyone actually using Xen (thinking cost here) or do you actually opt for the cheaper OpenVZ.

    Also, what does Virtuozzo bring to the party if Xen out performs it and OpenVZ cheaper? Can't see why a hosting provider would fork out another Ł100ish per month, per node (depending on containers on the node, this may be more or less)? Looks nice?

    Anyone?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nutnut View Post
    Lots of Xen fans - what control panel would you pair up with it?
    Most definitely SolusVM - it is an excellent control panel, and really easy to use (both as a system administrator, and end-user) - plus, there's an active development team working on new features all the time, and the support is really good too.

    Quote Originally Posted by Nutnut View Post
    So it's clear that Xen is the favourite but is everyone actually using Xen (thinking cost here) or do you actually opt for the cheaper OpenVZ.
    That will vary from user to user.

    Generally, top quality hosts will use Xen, as it (almost) guarantees that you will get the resources the provider states you will have.
    OpenVZ is far easier to oversell on the other hand - which is why unfortunately, a lot of hosts use it.

    Let's put it this way, if there were two hosts, with identical plans (ignoring things like customer support etc. for the moment), one offering OpenVZ plans, and the other offering Xen at the same price, I would definitely go for Xen.
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    Voted for Hyper-V !
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    go with xen

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    xen more advantage to user....go for xen
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    +1 for Xen - its just more versatile.
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  18. #18
    My VPS is on Virtuozzo and it runs great! I would like to try Xen sometime, but as long as they are both "up", how would I tell which is better???
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    Xen all the way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nutnut View Post
    Lots of Xen fans - what control panel would you pair up with it?
    not very important to me, what panel it is, or does i even have access to some panel.
    but some ppl like client vps panels, solusvm seems to be one of the currently popular ones.

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    Another vote for Xen!
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    Xen is defo winning at the moment
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    +1 for Xen. More isolation from others on the carrier = more stability!

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    Quote Originally Posted by AL-Benjamin View Post
    +1 for Xen - its just more versatile.
    How so? I assume you've used Virtuozzo and Openvz to say this. I'm keen to hear why it's more "versatile".

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    Quote Originally Posted by KnownHost View Post
    How so? I assume you've used Virtuozzo and Openvz to say this. I'm keen to hear why it's more "versatile".
    Yes I have; I just feel it is a better container. It is of course my opinion, and nothing more - its not backed by scrupulous market data
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