Web Hosting : HyperVM vs. Virtuozzo – Can anyone comment

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This web hosting thread started by bigks on 02 December 2008

I have used hypervm for over a year and can say it’s my favorite. With my jump to futurehost I did not realize they used Virtuozzo until I logged in for the first time. First reaction was disappointment but the reality is it’s not that bad. I am hoping someone can comment on one thing though.

On hypervm if I loaded it with several sites that were being given a load I would typically use between 480mb – 700mb at any given time (Apache, not lighttpd with lxadmin)

On Virtuozzo when I loaded 4 somewhat heavy sites on the VPS I am using 88 megs of ram out of 1.5gb and I am once again using apache and lxadmin. If these 4 sites were on hypervm with lxadmin I know I would idle at around 350mb and with decent load roughly 650-700mb.

The sites seem to run good but I just can’t figure why hypervm would require up to 7.5x’s the resources.

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