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== container Hosting Providers ==
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Although I am somewhat of a new user to the container world I thought I'd write a short article giving an overview of why use container instead of dedicated servers for those of you who are involved in the hosting business or people thinking about leasing a container server. Here I will address misconceptions I had about container and talk about how my perspective on container is changing.<span class="plainlinks">[http://itshumour.blogspot.com/2009/09/top-10-hilarious-quotes.html <span style="color:#FEFEFE;font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none!important;background:none!important; text-decoration:none;">hilarious quotes</span>]<span class="plainlinks">[http://itshumour.blogspot.com/2010/06/twenty-hilarious-funny-quotes.html <span style="color:#FEFEFE;font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none!important;background:none!important; text-decoration:none;">funny quotes</span>]<span class="plainlinks">[http://itshumour.blogspot.com/2011/07/funny-marriage-jokes.html <span style="color:#FEFEFE;font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none!important; background:none!important; text-decoration:none;">funny jokes</span>]<span class="plainlinks">[http://itshumour.blogspot.com/2011/08/funny-statuses-quotes-for-facebook.html <span style="color:#FEFEFE;font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none!important;background:none!important; text-decoration:none;">funny status for facebook</span>]
Who am I? This article originally written by [http://www.perkel.com Marc Perkel] - a new container user - expressing my overview of OpenVZ from my perspective as a new user talking to other new users about my experience in learning this new environment. I am not an OpenVZ expert and I want to write this while I'm still new to OpenVZ so I can express my view from a new user's perspective. If you are just reading about container for the first time I am not that far ahead of you. This article is an attempt by me to give back a little to those who created this free software and give you new people an overview of the big picture as I learn this myself.
In the process however I started understanding the container concept and it became apparent that this is more than just a tool to create little servers. The way I see it container can replace dedicated servers in many situations in a data center and do a better job than dedicated. You can actually give the customer more horsepower and better hosting than selling them a small dedicated box. (Of course big customers will still need their own server.)
I don't own a data center business myself but I have a friend who does and I colo several servers there. He has several racks of some old Celeron boxes with 512 mgs Megs of ram RAM and one or two 80 gig Gig drives depending on if the customer has any concept of backups, which most of them don't. I'm looking at the racks of Celerons and P4s thinking that each rack could be consolidated into a single modern server and that the customers would actually have a better server than the one they are on now. And the cost saving is savings would be tremendous.
== Advantages of container ==
I have to say that my view of container has radically changed and that I now see this as a solution not just for people wanting little servers but for most everyone who is looking for dedicated service. container is a different way of looking at the computing world and it takes some significant mental adjustment and education to grasp the big picture.
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