On Sat, 2011-12-17 at 11:49 +0530, Suraj Kumar wrote:
a VPS as I understand it is a share on a server which as far as theuser
is concerned is a full server with root access. The only thing onenew
cannot do in most VPSs is install a new distro. One can upgrade to a
release of the installed distro.
Not quite. VPSes, whether achieved using Paravirtualization (like Xen)
or
using Compartmentalization (like OpenVZ) limits / binds one to the
same
kernel but everything else above it can be changed.