Yes, that's pretty much it.
2008/11/27 Steve VanSlyck <s.vanslyck(a)spamcop.net>
OK. Lemme see if I got this right.
There are two boxes in my living room. One in Larry and one is Curly.
Larry is a shared server and Curly runs some virtual servers. On the
Larry shared server everybody shares all the same apache settings like
memory limits and such, so Mo, Groucho, and Zeppo are kindof in lock
step in some (or many) ways. I guess here that the processor itself has
to manage conflicts and allocate resources
On the Curly virtual servers, Harpo, W. and Bill C., can "change" the
settings of their virtual server in many more ways. One can have a 500Gb
memory limit for some process and another can limit his to 5K. The
virtual server software manages conflicts and allocates resources.
Ignoring the probably incorrect examples I've given, is that generally
correct in concept?
Boris Steipe wrote:
Yes, but that box pretends to be several
different boxes all at the
same time. Each of those is "virtual".
On 27-Nov-08, at 10:35 AM, Steve VanSlyck wrote:
I don't understand how any software could run
on anything other than a
computer I can point at. How is this in any way virtual? There's gotta
be a computer somewhere.
Matt Browne wrote:
Real hosting is when it's hosted on a
physical box. Either a
dedicated
server or a shared server.
Virtual hosting is where a virtual machine hosts your site. So,
your site
would have a dedicated virtual machine, but this virtual machine
is on a
machine that hosts some other virtual machines.
2008/11/27 Steve VanSlyck <s.vanslyck(a)spamcop.net>
> Wot's the difference between real hosting and virtual hosting?
>
> Troy Wical wrote:
>
>
>> On Nov 26, 2008, at 10:08 AM, Matt Browne wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Just out of curiosity. Who do people use for hosting their
>>> Mediawiki
>>> sites?
>>>
>>>
>> I've used
JaguarPC.com for several years now. Their "gigadeal"
>> package sets the bar in regards to virtual hosting features and
>> cost.
>> Customer service has been top notch and I know several others that
>> have nothing but good things to say about them.
>>
>>
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