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2. Virtual private server - Wikipedia

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   A virtual private server (VPS) is a virtual machine sold as a service by an Internet hosting service. [1] The term "virtual dedicated server" (VDS) has a similar meaning.A virtual private server runs its own copy of an operating system (OS), and customers may have superuser-level access to that operating system instance, so they can install almost any software that runs on that OS.

3. Comparison of platform virtualization software - Wikipedia

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   Virtualized server isolation, server/desktop consolidation, software development, cloud computing, other purposes. Xen powers most public cloud services and many hosting services, such as Amazon Web Services, Rackspace Hosting and Linode. Up to native [19] Yes XenServer: Yes Yes Yes Paravirtualization and porting or hardware virtualization

4. Virtual hosting - Wikipedia

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   Virtual hosting is a method for hosting multiple domain names (with separate handling of each name) on a single server (or pool of servers). [1] This allows one server to share its resources, such as memory and processor cycles, without requiring all services provided to use the same host name.

5. Game server - Wikipedia

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   Without host migration, if the player that is currently hosting disconnects for any reason (quitting, crashing, lost network connection, etc.), the current server stops functioning and gameplay ends. A host migration feature allows one of the other players to become designated as the new host, so that the game can continue.

6. OpenVZ - Wikipedia

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   OpenVZ (Open Virtuozzo) is an operating-system-level virtualization technology for Linux. It allows a physical server to run multiple isolated operating system instances, called containers, virtual private servers (VPSs), or virtual environments (VEs). OpenVZ is similar to Solaris Containers and LXC.

7. Bare-metal server - Wikipedia

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   HTTP 1.1's ability for virtual hosting also made it easy to co-host many web sites on the same server. From around 2000, or 2005 in commercially practical terms, interest grew in the use of virtual servers and then cloud hosting, where infrastructure as a service made the computing service the fungible commodity, rather than the server hardware.