VPS Technologies

Introduction

A VPS technology is a virtualization technology that uses containers as opposed to virtual machines. Two known technologies that use this method are:

  1. Virtuzzo

  2. OpenVZ

Technologies that are not container based, and therefore are not VPS technologies, includes, but is not limited to:

  • VMWare

  • Xen

  • KVM

  • Iguest

  • Hyper-V