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VPS Technologies
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Introduction
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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

