Different forms of virtualisation

The two most common forms of virtualisation used by hosting providers are hardware virtualisation (KVM) and the so-called containers (OpenVZ). CloudLix uses hardware virtualisation (KVM), because this offers by far the best performance.

While these are very different forms of virtualisation, both are offered as a Virtual Private Server (VPS).

Difference in performance and price

For containers, it is possible to overbook the memory on the physical server. This means that, in total, more memory is distributed to containers than is actually available on the physical server. For containers, it is assumed that the users will not all call upon their allocated memory at the same time. This is not necessarily a problem if the available memory is only overbooked to a limited extent. However, practice has shown that many VPS providers that offer containers significantly overbook memory, so that they can offer a Virtual Private Server at a lower price.However, if too little memory is available, then the system becomes very slow or can even crash.

In a hardware virtualisation solution, memory is always reserved and your server space is never overbooked. As a result, memory is slightly more expensive than with a container, but your memory is guaranteed to always be available.

Available Operating Systems

The following Operating systems can be installed on your KVM VDS anytime from the control panel.

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