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European telco and managed services provider Interoute has launched a hosted virtual server service - but unlike smaller hosting companies which use the likes of Virtuozzo to generate virtual webservers, it's using a full VMware ESX set-up. It allows customers to have a virtual machine (VM) of their own, complete with its own …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    WTF

    "However, he claimed that the real benefit of the virtual approach is not cost, but reliability and provisioning speed - customers will even be able to buy VMs online."

    I've been buying hardware servers online for the last 8 years. You pay your money, you get sent a link to the admin login. How is this revolutionary ? And you get a performance hit - wow, sign me up.

    10 customers can't be wrong !

    If they were providing regular snapshots of each VM as part of the package, and giving you the option to restore to a particular machine state, then that may be useful, but I would still prefer a server to be running natively. Also, unless you have the VM backed up to a different machine, then it's no backup at all.

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