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Will OvZ run on this hardware?
raindog308
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This is for home, not a datacenter, not going to start a VPS company, etc.
I have an old Shuttle PC that presently runs Deb 6 with no problems. Works great as a desktop box for Vuze, some lab stuff, etc.
I was getting ready to reload it and thought...why not reload it with OvZ and then I could have multiple VPSes on it.
It has 2GB of RAM and 2x320GB SATA drives. CPU:
processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 13 model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.50GHz stepping : 8 cpu MHz : 1508.458 cache size : 1024 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx up bts bogomips : 3016.91 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 32 bits physical, 32 bits virtual power management:
Not expecting things to run fast but it's just going to be glacial I won't bother. Don't plan to oversell myself...was thinking maybe a small host OS and then 2-3 small VPSes at 256-512MB? Probably not a lot of times when more than 1 would be active.
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I think OpenVZ can run on almost everything, if performance is not required.
Yes, it should run fine.
Yes.
this is the same sentence I read on this same forum just a few hours/days a new VPS company posted some offers :-D
Since you have 2GB of RAM I think you can fit 8 x 1GB VPS without problems, in case of abuse you can always suspend yourself ;-)
LOL...well, I did actually think for a sec about coloing it...
awesome!
will do the same with my old box at home.
And yes.
I will start my own vps business after that.
any recommendations about the best host OS??
I have a shuttle myself!
Perhaps team up and start vps-shuttle?
Apparently someone just had that idea:
Lmao
yeah. windows 95.
I've got 14 containers running random things on a Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D425 @ 1.80GHz. I break things, all the time, easier to just blow away the container and start over again. Each container runs as fast as a slow Atom.
what do you do with them?
Does OvZ run better with CentOS or Debian as the host OS?
CentOS since cPanel won't support Debian and most providers install cPanel on their node.
The OVZ kernel in debian is old and has some... quirks. Like not being able to limit the CPU of a container, ipv6 totally broken and probably some more. You can do debian with a RHEL based OpenVZ kernel though.
Why would anyone want to install cPanel on a VPS node ????
To run the site?
What site?
If you mean main site, just create a container...
Their company website?
Yes, that's normally the way it's done. Nevermind.
You DON'T want to run it directly on the node. Create a VPS, install cPanel there, run the site. Much more secure and the cPanel license is cheaper too.
Yes, I got confused with hostnode and VPS container. But we use CentOS anyway, and I've noticed most hosts use this too.
Hosts use CentOS because SolusVM requires CentOS (or other RHEL based distribution)
And what happens if something goes wrong with the server? A client gets DDoSed? Then your site is down also. Better to host it on another server, no?
You make a good point. Except we don't use SolusVM for OpenVZ services.
Just for the record, we do actually run cPanel in a container.
You use HyperVM which is also limited to RHEL OS's AFAIK.
Haha, apparently so.
Interesting.