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Virtual server/host could be confused with shared hosting?
Virtual Private Server was analogous to Virtual Private Network, I thought. But it seems like something of a lowend term. It was/is something that you rent by the month instead of colo'ing a box someplace (at the time I first started seeing VPS, there weren't many dedi hosts and colo was basically what you did).
Reading that again I dunno why I thought it meant personal, that just sounds wrong.
VM or VPS. The other terms are just too specific to certain providers.
I've always understood "private" (in "VPS") as alluding to the fact any guest server is isolated from other guest servers on the same host system, so you don't/can't know who your neighbors are, and nor do/can they.
i just call it VM when its KVM vps, and Container when its OpenVZ vps. Node for me kind of larger Bare Metal/Dedicated Server hardware.
Neat.
I agree. Is there anyone calling "droplet" to a w00th05t1n9 server?
i though droplet is for DO thing and slice for BuyVM thing
I use VPS outside of my day job. I tend to only use VM when referring specifically to VMware to avoid confusion because people in the VMware bubble either refuse to acknowledge or don't realize there are other virtualization options out there. LoL.
I think we should piss off DO by referring to all VPSes as "droplets".
Actually, it appears DO hasn't trademarked Droplet...and probably can't now:
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4805:4dgdj1.1.1&p_search=searchss&p_L=50&BackReference=&p_plural=yes&p_s_PARA1=live&p_tagrepl~:=PARA1$LD&expr=PARA1+AND+PARA2&p_s_PARA2=Droplet&p_tagrepl~:=PARA2$COMB&p_op_ALL=AND&a_default=search&a_search=Submit+Query&a_search=Submit+Query
In general conversation when referring to virtual infrastructure I refer to VMs. In terms of marketing and when discussing customer boxes I'll refer to them as VPS' as that seems to be the generally accepted 'industry standard' term.
Node will always refer to a hypervisor in my mind.
I prefer the good old fashioned name: VPS. I understand the marketing attempts of providers to define their product as it would be something unique, but this can also get in their way when bringing clients that do not understand what it is.
Coming up next: slices of actual cloud.
I usually go by VM. Vps when I'm talking to less tech savvy people and cloud when I want the suits to start drooling
openvz / lxc = VPS (container) (shared kernel)
KVM /XEN/ VMWARE = VDS ( Full hardware virtualization) (own kernel)
that's what I prefer and use when selling services to my own customers.
I prefer using the term 'VPS'.
This is the term I believe most people can understand easily without confusion.