[NBLUG/talk] Virtual Private Servers

[Cameron Tully-Smith]

At 06:19 PM 4/23/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Thanks everyone for the DSL answers.  I still need to digest all of it.
>:-)

For the record, I've been very happy with Sonic too :)  (had DSL downtown, 
then moved and have it where I am now; excellent performance in both cases; 
sometimes a little slower (750kbps vs 1.2Mbps), but that could be the Net).

>On a completely unrelated note, I was wondering if anybody could comment
>on the relative merits of different "virtual server" options.  I am
>referring to situations where a "customer" gets the illusion of having
>root access on their own computer.  Some of the options I have found in my
>research so far are:

I've had good luck with VMware so far (running under Windows, but I hear 
that version 4 of their Workstation product has a new Linux GUI).  Their 
OS-dependent tools (work under Linux and XP at least) are also cool.  Linux 
and XP performance when using the tools is very good on a recent machine 
(fast Celeron with 384MB RAM).

Cameron