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No, its a VPS.
A while back virpus offered this type of machine for $49/mo
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/125795/virpus-instant-deployment-dual-xeon-l5639-with-70-gb-ram-and-440-gb-disk-only-49-mo
I found this a bit misleading as it's advertised as a dedicated server ... but it is in fact xen virt ...
Virtual Dedicated Server is what I've heard it referenced as. I always wonder why i wouldn't want it bare metal though unless you would provide the ability to take snapshot and full VM backup on the fly. Perhaps even offer a datastorage option for additional cost in the same facility? That would be cool.
Not worth the hassle for 3% overhead.
Are you iamsure from BNT of 1999?
I mean, can you? Sure, HostGator does. Hopefully they finally started leaving enough memory for the host to stop going OOM. That's really the thing: needing more memory than you can sell, allocating for host failure, or being really shady and selling more memory than you allocate.
What kind of virtualization does HG do? I thought they do containers where RAM can be oversold. At least with XEN, I'm not sure how to oversell RAM.
So a 32GB RAM server would probably have to be sold as a 30 or 31GB RAM server, to account for the overhead.
Grinds my gears every time I see BigBirdBullshit post their shitty dedicated VPS's under the Dedicated Offers section on WHT. So no, please don't call it a dedicated server or every offer you post will be shit on. Call it bare-metal or VDS, whichever you prefer as they're more commonly accepted.
Bare Metal sounds reasonable. VDS = VPS in my mind.
But does that limit such offers to $7 on LET?
Uh? Bare metal means exactly what it does, i.e. you get to directly use the hardware, not via a container or virtualization of any sort. Bare = without any layers of isolation or abstraction between you and the actual hardware of the server. Looks like you got misled by those marketing terms as well.
Whats the point of the term 'Bare Metal' if it is just a straight dedicated server?
Yeah, you're right. If you have pass through for the interfaces (io & net), then you're pretty much bare-metal as @Clouvider mentioned previously. Think I got "bare-metal" mixed up with "hybrid".
It's not a true "dedicated server", so you can't advertise it as one. I don't think I've ever seen Wishosting advertise their v-dedicated line, but plenty of people around here are still aware of the offerings.
Hybrid it is.
I’ll need to ask for royalties :P
Careful! You'll have @Francisco showing up at your door for them "slice" royalties
i use this for all our cpanel accounts. We make a big server with big resourece + install proxmox + create one kvm with all server resource . In this case i pay only a vps cpanel license/server (so less cost) and from proxmox we have make a script wich is make backup from the entirely kvm . So much more easy to manage and less $ cost in cpanel license. Also we sugest this when a client is buy a dedi and is need cpanel. So way not ?
Finally, we can all sleep now.
As long as you don't advertise it as a dedicated server it should be fine. Just be transparent about what you're selling. Depending on the case it can definitely be a nice product to offer.
Hybrid makes me think its a vps or something
That's because it is.
Eeeehh is it though? Just sounds like a great way to manage and be able to deploy different installs. It needs better marketing i think... Like you can run as many KVMs on this platform as you want or can easily create snap shots to a storage array on the system. Idk but just calling it hybrid sounds like a massive KVM. Which makes me wonder why i wouldn't just get a massive non dedicated KVM?
What OP is describing is one massive KVM that has access to (almost) all of the server's resources (minus the overhead for the virtualization). The customer would have access to a virtualized environment, so by definition it is a VPS. Having access to all of the resources doesn't change that fact.
https://www.soladrive.com/hybrid_vs_vps.html
Can we please just call it a VPS with Dedicated resources?
Yes it is.
You could call them ‘Virtually Dedicated’.
That one’s on the house.
KVM, should be leaving 2GB for the host now, but still advertising the servers as having the full amount of RAM that the actual server has.
Ok, it's a VPS with dedicated resources, but for the purpose of LET offers, are they VPS or Dedicated?
Or more bluntly put, is the max price $7 or $49/m ?
I've never had a blue onion, but red onions are so much better than white that it isn't funny. Vidalia are also good, but in a completely different way.
Green onions are enough for me!
Because they tend to be more phallic?