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Silly question from newbie moving from Digital Ocean to LET - LXC or KVM hosting?
Dear all,
Forgive me posting such trivial question.
I'm currently using Digital Ocean and have created 3 droplets just running pihole, syncthing..and other for learning linux stuff.
In Digital Ocean, I create each droplet for a particular OS, so I have one Ubuntu, one Debian 10 and one CentOS. From the forum I see vps hosting company provide LXC / KVM (or both) , so my question is, which kind of hosting should I choose?
If I choose LXC, does it means I need to purchase separate plan for each instance , or if I choose KVM (which cost a little bit more) , I can create VM for each OS on the same VPS which I just to purchase one plan.
Thanks so much for your advice
Zhao
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Here are your choices:
Get the KVM, you can then create as many LXC or even OVZ as you like.
I highly recommend that you take your migration from DigitalOcean to LET very slowly. LET can be a very complex platform to host on, and you don't keep control of your content. You have no guarantees of uptime or that the content will even remain online.
Thanks @devp
does it means I can run multiple container (with different linux distro) in a single LXC hosting plan?
Not likely if you want different kernel versions.
This.
In addition, you may run into random cluster issues, your polls may break for unknown reasons and you may even be unable to upload your content if Cloudflare decides it may be malicious.
With provider and reputable service as @jar we can manage that.
if you dont mind your garden being looked at from time to time, i know the perfect cloud provider.
When in doubt, go for KVM.
KVM gives you a full virtual machine with its own kernel and userspace.
You'll be able to use it directly or create containers within.
Both OpenVZ and LXC have all kinds of restrictions on containerization and networking.
Always go for KVM.
If you don't need the features KVM offers you in comparison to containers and/or you wanna save money, go for containers.
Yea don't buy anything you see, it could be a trap.
Read the reviews and do your due diligence.
thanks so much you all, I will stick to KVM then, any suggestions about hosting company would be appreciated.
You can visit multiple discussion threads here at LET and choose based on your preferred parameters.