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Hosting providers

2009-02-02T15:35:31Z

Zoidial: Added zoidial.com as an OpenVZ Hosting Provider

OpenVZ makes for a great hosting platform for VPS hosting. The providers below offer VPS services using OpenVZ.

== Austria ==

* [https://www.vboxes.net/ vboxes] vboxes offers generous OpenVZ containers hosted on a very fast network with fast setup. Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS.

== Canada ==

* [http://www.vistapages.com/vps Vistapages VPS] - IBM & Dell Hardware. MCI/Verizon Backbone. Distros: Centos, Fedora, Debian & more. Full management available. Located in Toronto.
* [http://vpsville.ca/ VPSVille] - Good network. Good CPU. Good choice of distros: Centos, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Slackware, Gentoo, OpenSUSE, CERN. My favorite OpenVZ provider. [mailto:jak@isp2dial.com John Kelly]
* [http://compevo.com compevo Clustered VPS Server Hosting Provider] - We offer clustered VPS Servers to avoid downtime and dataloss. Our network and service is second to none and is used by businesses around the world.

== Iran==

* [http://www.cheapvps.ir Cheap Vps] - XEON Cpus , 8 gig Ram , western H.d.d. , Intel RAID and Multi data center network.

== Lithuania ==

* [http://www.serveriai.lt/ Serveriai.lt] - Affordable OpenVZ containers on quality HP hardware. Wide choice of virtual dedicated servers up to 8 CPU cores and 8 GB RAM. Full management available. Located in Vilnius.

== Malaysia ==

* [http://www.bakka.us/ Bakka Hosting] - OpenVZ VPS based in Malaysia. Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS is available. Quad Core Xeon node. DirectAdmin also available.

== Netherlands ==

* [http://www.signet.nl/ Signet VPS Hosting] - Signet delivers VPS hosting plans based on CentOS or Debian templates, including control-panel Virtualmin.
* [http://www.touchvps.com/ TouchVPS] is a company who offer Support and Managed Services for OpenVZ Servers ,also offer templates for openvz ready to go with cPanel , DirectAdmin , Plesk , Games, IRC Services, Desktop and many more.
* [http://www.voipcomplete.com/product-overview/dedicated-vps.html VOIPcomplete] offers dedicated VPS plans based on CentOS including a VPS management interface.

== Portugal ==

* [http://www.efeito.net/ Weblevel.pt] - OpenVZ virtual servers based in Portugal.

== Singapore ==

* [http://conceptlane.com/IT.php?section=plans_vps ConceptLane Pte Ltd] - OpenVZ VPS on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 LTS host, on dual dual-core AMD Opterons.

== South Africa ==

* [http://www.SoftDux.co.za/ SoftDux] - OpenVZ virtual servers based America & South Africa. All VPS's come with cPanel or Plesk control panels. XEN VPS's also available.

== UK ==

* [http://www.DubHosting.co.uk/ DubHosting] - DubHosting started in 2004 has been providing cost effective hosting to clients world wide. Fully managed OpenVZ servers based in Europe & US are one of their many strong points. They can provide you with a dedicated server and install openvz allowing you to sell your own vps servers.
* [http://www.vt6.co.uk/ VT6 Internet] - Affordable OpenVZ virtual servers based in the UK and USA. Choice of control panels and management options.
* [http://www.weycrest.co.uk/vps-hosting.php Weycrest VPS] - Low Cost, Stable OpenVZ and Parallels' Virtuozzo Virtual Private Server solutions. London UK Hosted at Coreix with a choice of operating systems, and root and control panel options.
* [http://blueroomhosting.com/plans.pxl Blue Room Hosting] - OpenVZ containers hosted at the Bluesquare data centre in Maidenhead, UK
* [http://sysadminman.net/uk-voip-vps.html Trixbox, Elastix and Asterisk VPS in the UK] - OpenVZ based Asterisk VOIP servers based in the UK

== Ukraine ==

* [http://www.gelihost.com/ Geliar Hosting Solutions] - Fast virtual dedicated servers based on OpenVZ. Geliar Hosting Solutions offering many control panels and other useful services.

== USA ==
* [http://www.DubHosting.com/ DubHosting] - DubHosting started in 2004 has been providing cost effective hosting to clients world wide. Fully managed OpenVZ servers based in Europe & US are one of their many strong points. They can provide you with a dedicated server and install openvz allowing you to sell your own vps servers.
* [http://www.4domains.com/open_vps.html 4Domains] has been in the hosting business since 1998, offering VPS solutions for the majority of that time. We offer OpenVZ and Virtuozzo with Virtualmin or Plesk at competitive prices on any distribution of Linux with full shell access. Includes our award winning professional and personalized support.
* [http://www.a2hosting.com/services/vps-hosting/ A2 Hosting] offers affordable, developer friendly OpenVZ VPS Hosting. Experience the A2 Hosting Difference.
* [http://www.bittraffic.com/?cmd=vps BitTraffic] High Quality Hosting Solutions! Affordable, stable, reliable OpenVZ VPS Solutions!
* [http://www.tigerservers.com/ TigerServers] - Provides affordable managed VPS based on OpenVZ. Servers located in Chicago, Illinois.
* [http://www.silverrack.com/ SilverRack VPS Hosting] - SilverRack provides affordable VPS hosting using the OpenVZ platform.
* [http://www.buyavps.com/ BuyAVPS] - BuyAVPS provides stable yet affordable VPS hosting with a great support staff.
* [http://vpslink.com VPSLink.com] provides virtual private server hosting on the OpenVZ platform.
* [http://glesys.se GleSYS] is a hosting company specialized in serverhosting. Also offering VPS hosting mainly based on OpenVZ. GleSYS has provided access to server and Cisco hardware for developers from OpenVZ to find problem with VLAN implementation.
* [http://lylix.net LYLIX] offers affordable VPS hosting with a choice of eight different Linux distributions, dedicated VPS hosting, and specializes in Asterisk/VOIP based hosting including Trixbox, AsteriskNow, Elastix, and PBX-in-a-Flash. Popular choice for unmanaged IP-PBX services; entire infrastructure built on a High-availability (HA) network across three regional NOCs.
* [http://www.servergrove.com ServerGrove] uses OpenVZ as the main virtualization platform for its state of the art VPS hosting services.
* [http://www.tektonic.net TekTonic] provides VPS hosting services using both Virtuozzo and OpenVZ technology.
* [http://www.micfo.com Micfo.com] offers VPS hosting services for both Linux VPS hosting and Window VPS hosting on affordable price combined with world-class 24x7x365 support.
* [http://www.alticon.net Alticon] has provided OpenVZ based VPS/VE hosting for over 2½ years. Many clients use OpenVZ based VEs as a cost effective solution for hosting highly secured, customized versions of ZenCart & WordPress. Other clients use OpenVZ for DNS mirroring, messages board hosting, and general use.
* [http://www.hostingrails.com Hosting Rails] offers Rails-targeted OpenVZ VPS Hosting and updated Rails-ready OS images.
* [http://www.byethost.com Byethost.com] offers OpenVZ based VPS Hosting as its main VPS solution, with the hypervm panel. Centos, Debian, Fedora, OpenSuse and Ubuntu Containers are available.
* [http://www.synapseglobal.com/voip_vps.html SynapseGlobal.com] Elastix, Trixbox, PBX in a Flash and Asterisk VPS - OpenVZ based Asterisk VOIP servers with 14 Tier 1 premium bandwidth providers.
* [http://www.zoidial.com/ Zoidial Hosting and VPS] - offers VPS and Virtual Dedicated Server solutions utilizing OpenVZ. In business since 1998, Zoidial Incorporated is a small hosting provider focused on being security conscious, proactive, and offering a positive client experience.

== Venezuela ==

* [http://www.iguanahosting.com Iguanahosting.com] The Iguanahosting OpenVZ based VEs also called "SDV"(Servidor Dedicado Virtual in Spanish). Running on Full Quality Nodes of up to 8 CPU and 8 GB RAM. XEN VPS's also will be available cooming soon. All VPS's come with cPanel, Fantastico and RVSkin and a Real 24/7/365 Technical Support.

== See also ==

* [[Partners]]
* [[Download mirrors]]
* [[VPS vs Dedicated]]

Testimonials

2009-01-25T14:22:24Z

Zoidial: added testimonial

'''Following are some comments we've received from OpenVZ users.'''

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I'm curious. For the past few months, people@openvz.org have discovered
(and fixed) an ongoing stream of obscure but serious and quite
long-standing bugs.

How are you discovering these bugs?

''Andrew Morton, [http://openvz.org/pipermail/devel/2007-July/006281.html Devel mainling list]''

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OpenVZ, which also is vying for inclusion in the mainstream Linux kernel, would complement Xen well and has impressed me in the initial testing I've conducted.

''Jason Brooks, Senior Analyst, Ziff Davis. [http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Red-Hat-Isnt-Exhibiting-XenOphobia/ eweek.com]''

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I just wanted to congratulate you and the rest of the OpenVZ team for your
excellent, excellent work. We are now have an OpenVZ subject in our 120
hours Total Linux course here at the Bluepoint Foundation, and our
students really appreciate the work you've done. I'm learning a lot from
lurking in the devel list too. Thanks again and keep 'em coming! :D

''Engels Antonio, [http://bluepoint.com.ph/ Bluepoint Foundation]''

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I would say, OpenVZ is '''United States of Linux''' because i can run all my lovely different type of GNU/Linux distributions(States) on '''one single machine''' with '''one kernel''' model. As stable as guaranteed for production server and handy for software development (well no more dual, tri, quad boot partition). After all, it is just a good quality software piece for Linux User. Again, welcome to '''United States of Linux''' world!!

''Victor, System Admin, [http://www.kholix.com kholix.com]''

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Thanks for producing OpenVZ, we use it ourselves at PlanetMirror and
find that it's fantastic.

''Robert McLeay, PlanetMirror.com stuff''

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OpenVZ is about the greatest thing we've ever found, and we're SO glad for it.

''Gregor Mosheh, HostGIS'' [https://openvz.org/pipermail/users/2007-August/001104.html]

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OpenVZ has me seriously impressed, I was looking to try virtualisation technology and got OpenVZ up and running in only 3 trips to the coffee machine! ''-barf''

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We've been running OpenVZ in a production environment for a few years for a multitude of tasks. It's been nothing short of amazing, stable, and resource friendly! Thanks to all those who have contributed to make OpenVZ even better over the years!

''Eric Thern, Technical Director, [http://www.zoidial.com Zoidial Hosting and VPS]''

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Hello all, just downloaded and installed OpenVZ, and i must say its a big improvement over other container systems that i have tested IMHO.
[http://forum.openvz.org/index.php?t=tree&goto=646&#msg_646]

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Virtuozzo and openvz are wonderful - I don't know why more people aren't
using them. I hear a lot of hype for xen and usermode but
virtuozzo/openvz is so great for many common needs.
[http://forum.openvz.org/index.php?t=rview&goto=650#msg_650]

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For my needs, OpenVZ is better than Xen. The one-kernel approach conserves memory, leaving more for applications. And having all container in one disk partition saves disk space. A surprise bonus was the template cache management with yum. The ease of keeping templates updated and quickly installing new operating environments is yummy!
[http://forum.openvz.org/index.php?t=rview&goto=3119#msg_3119]

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I agree with you very much. I would say for enterprise use where cost/efficiency is not a factor, Xen has an edge over VZ. However for a service provider or other situation where CPU/RAM/DISK resources are shared among environments to ensure profitability/efficiency, openvz is far superior. Also, VZ is much simpler to use, and all of the command line utilities are well documented.
[http://forum.openvz.org/index.php?t=tree&th=572&mid=3122]

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Last week when we were in limbo about what to do, it was decided to try out XEN Virtualization. From what is written in the press the Xen system has alot of promise, Features such as opensource with live migration and backups sounds great; but was far too complicated to get working in our configuration. OpenVZ was the only virtual server system that was simple to install and get working.
[http://forum.openvz.org/index.php?t=msg&goto=568#msg_568]

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It still amazes me how well OpenVZ works.
[http://forum.openvz.org/index.php?t=msg&th=368&#msg_2086]

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[03:30:15] <pookey> well, I've been using openvz for all of about an hour, and I'm pretty impressed so far :)<br/>
''from #openvz IRC channel''

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I am playing around for years with all major virtualization environments like all VMware products, Microsoft and several xen based solutions. But OpenVZ is the overall winner. [http://blog.openvz.org/14313.html]

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I messed around with VMWare and Xen. I found VMWare to be somewhat over kill and Xen was damned hard to get working. The user community on the Xen mailing list is rather hostile. It looked like A number of people hang out there for the sole purpose of flaming the clueless.

I've found the OpenVZ folks to be very helpful and knowledgeable. OpenVZ is simple to install and get running. It pretty much satisfies my needs. [http://blog.openvz.org/14313.html?thread=17897#t17897]

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I'm a sysadm and have always used xen/qemu/virtualbox/vmware server for my VMs and my customer's ones. Yesterday I decided to give OpenVZ a try and... I'm amazed. It's fast, easy and reliable.Live migration works like a charm and the use of rsync assures low data transfers. Great. [http://forum.openvz.org/index.php?t=tree&goto=14724&#msg_14724] ''Stefano Marinelli, http://www.dragas.net''

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OpenVZ is one of the few pieces of software that I truly love. It works wonderfully. It should become part of the mainline kernel. ''Nick Andrew, http://www.nick-andrew.net''

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And thanks again for OpenVZ. Our business couldn't do what we do, as well as we do, with VMWare or Xen. ''Gregor Mosheh'', System Administrator, HostGIS cartographic development & hosting services.

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Thank you for OpenVZ by the way... it is awesome. It saves me hours of work every day. ''Eric Gearhart, http://nixwizard.net''

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For us at [http://www.signet.nl Signet], OpenVZ is ideal as a virtualization platform as it's open-source, no vendor lock-in's and great performance. It perfectly integrates into our high-availability SAN and server setup so it's great. ''Remco Bressers, http://www.signet.nl''