Who needs OpenVZ?
The short answer is - every system administrator needs it. Some examples of practical applications:
* Hosting - all ranges on the same platform, from low-level shared to medium-power virtual server to powerful
dedicated servers - seamless scaling up in the same safe virtual private server.
* Server consolidation - put together your existing servers and use more powerful and reliable hardware.
* Increase availability - keep an up-to-date copy of your virtual private server on another server, and start it in seconds in case of failure
* Education - each student gets its own virtual server with root access
* Testing - safe experimentation on the machine that runs another services
* Clean sandbox - install each service in its own freshly created Virtual Private Server, and you will never have to resolve dependency problems
* Improve network services security - run each server in its own Virtual Private Server. If the application has a security hole, only this particular virtual private server will be compromised, never the whole system.
Who needs OpenVZ ?
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