Avastu Blog: Sustainable Global Clouds

I have a simple webmaster account with Lycos and saw here that they also offer VDS. Well the package really sucks actually. Look for yourself here . Well the best deal is... 512 Mb RAM 10Gb (pay 0.69 Pound against 0.15 US $per Gb for every extra Gig No thanks I don't need no trial here. And what they say here is... What is a VDS ? VDS stands for Virtual Dedicated Server. This is the most advanced step in server virtualisation technology. This technology is used to partition a single physical server into many isolated virtual dedicated servers. Each virtual dedicated server looks and behaves exactly like a real networked server system, complete with its own set of init scripts, users, processes, file systems, etc. A VDS provides all of the control, security and flexibility of a dedicated server for a fraction of the price. And they're definitely using Xen for that purpose, I'm sure. (If it really is what they say, virtualization thus). OK I read through the FAQ's and fou...