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What do you think VPS hosting will look like in the future?
I've been thinking about this lately.
With a normal VPS we still have to trust the provider and, more importantly, the hypervisor. If the hypervisor gets compromised, then potentially every VM on that node becomes a target.
With AI making things like fuzzing, vulnerability research and exploit development easier, I wonder if this model will still be considered good enough 7 or 15 years from now.
Maybe VPS hosting will move more toward confidential computing, where the provider can still assign CPU, RAM and disk, but can't actually see what's inside the VM.
Something like encrypted memory, encrypted storage and keys that stay outside the control of the host.
So even if someone compromises the hypervisor, they wouldn't automatically get access to every customer's data. They'd just see a bunch of encrypted VMs they can't easily inspect.
I know AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX already exist, but right now this stuff is mostly associated with bigger cloud providers.
Do you think we'll eventually see this become normal in the LowEnd market too?
Or do you think regular KVM VPS will still be the standard 10–15 years from now?
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When you encrypt your VM, the compromised hypervisor doesn't "automatically get access to every customer's data" - as you claim. This still involves dumping the host memory, then finding the FDE key, mounting the disk with the correct key and correct FS, etc.
So you will eliminate most opportunistic attacks simply by encrypting your OS drive and
by disabling QEMU guest agent, and as an extra safety using your own ISO during install.
Honestly I don't think so, it adds complexity and overhead. Most people still use dictionary
passwords for SSH, so...
Did you predict in 2011-2016 that RAM prices would go higher ($/gb) in 2026?
I'm expecting they will be similar like PaaS while what we currently have would be the minority, but I could be wrong since I view the question as a dev and I don't have much experience in this kind of business. I'm thinking of something like Dokploy, where you're allocated a certain amount of resources in your instance like a usual VPS rental and each app is isolated via Docker or something else. There is still interface like file manager and one click install for casual user like WordPress, but it also supports advanced deployment for CI/CD.
Enhance panel is the only one that close to what I written, that why I used them for my shared hosting business, but honestly, that panel customization was horrible since there's no such plugin ecosystem, everything have to via API/CLI they provide or a reskin. If I remember it correctly, there's time I asked onidel to try LB experiment in my vps instance and found web server couldn't be edited...
*Edit
After some thought, I think PaaS will have its own market rather than eating into the VPS market, since PaaS gives you less control than a VPS, so my idea was kind of wrong and too out of topic