FreeBSD Virtual Server

[The Hermit Hacker]

On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Darren Henderson wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, redbrick wrote:
>
> > I have been browsing for web hosting and I found some firms (one of them
> > is <http://www.hub.org>) offering 'virtual server hosting using
> > FreeBSD'. They say that virtual server is different from virtual host,
> > for the first is a completely separated enviroment, like a standalone
> > server.
>
> Always read the small print. All of it.
>
> There is at least one outfit that actually tries to sell this
> kind of thing, shared hosting using jails, as a collocated UNIX server.

We don't ... we advertise it purely as a virtual server / machine ... full
root is provided to the VM so that clients can operate it as if it was its
own machine, but we very clearly spell it out as *virtual* ...