Linux-VServer - User contributions [en]

Hall of Fame

2006-10-20T18:42:54Z

SiD3WiNDR:

'''We want to thank ... for ...''' ''(in no particular order)''

== Sponsors & Donations ==

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! style="width: 25%" | Rose Web Services L.L.C.
| Founded in April 2001, located in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, RoseHosting provides all kinds of hosting solutions, especially Virtual Dedicated Servers, based on Linux-VServer Technology.

The first company in the world to offer commercial virtual server
hosting, as early as Sept. 2001.

* providing a dual Pentium 1GHz III for development. (2003-) (1.5 GB RAM, 2x 80 GB HDDs RAID1, unlimitted traffic)
* providing two Linux-VServers (vserver.13thfloor.at).
* sponsoring kernel development.
* using Linux-VServers
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! Amoebasoft
(Bill Schaub)
| Amoebasoft is a small private company working on a rack mount server appliance with a clean configuration interface and integrated Linux-vserver support. We formerly developed 3rd party objects for Sun One ASP (formerly known as chilisoft). our site will be updated to reflect our new company focus soon.

* providing a Sun Ultra 10 for development. (2004) (440 Mhz UltraSPARCIIi, 256MB RAM, 8GB HDD, unlimitted traffic)
* reporting and testing several quota hash issues
* using Linux-VServers
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! Jon Bendtsen
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* providing a dual P 200MHz MMX for development. (2003-2004) complete with remote serial console and reset (using ssh key limited commands)
* using Linux-VServers and hanging around
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! Matt Ayres
(TekTonic Network Solutions)
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* testing many development versions for stability
* enhancing and or requesting useful features
* sponsoring kernel development
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! Fabio Corneti
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* using Linux-Vservers
* donating money
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! Joris Bontje [NL]
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* helping with vserver debugging (quota)
* donating money
|-
! John Scott
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* using Linux-Vservers
* testing on x86-64
* donating money
|-
! Cathy Sarisky
(Acorn Hosting)
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* using Linux-Vservers
* donating money
|-
! Tomer Horn
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* using Linux-Vservers
* donating money
|-
! OpenHosting
(Gregory Trubetskoy)
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OpenHosting, Inc. is an innovative hosting company based in Vienna, VA, USA, and providing more affordable, scalable, manageable and secure hosting solutions by taking advantage of the latest technologies such as virtualization, load-balancing and clustering. OpenHosting's solutions are based around OpenVPS, an open source product in turn based on Linux VServer.

* using Linux-Vservers
* sponsoring kernel development
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! Lycos, France
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* providing a quad Pentium III Xeon for SMP testing. (2004-2005) complete with remote serial console and reset.
* testing and debugging 2.6/1.9.x versions
* sponsoring kernel development
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! Mosaix Communications, Inc.
(Christian Hergert)
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Mosaix Communications, Inc. Founded in Dec 2002, Seattle, WA, USA providing Enhanced Private Network solutions which can significantly lower your ongoing IT costs, enhance security, connect your distributed enterprise, and provide unprecedented visibility and control of your network environment.

* Developing their next-generation network services based on Linux-VServer.
* donating money for ngnet development
|-
! Mark 'Schani' Probst [AT]
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* providing an Alpha PC 64 for testing. (2005-)
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! Marc E. Fiuczynski [US]
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* providing an HT P4 for development including remote console (IBM) (2005)
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! Krzysztof Wilczynski [PL]
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* donating a replacement harddisk
* providing virtual coffee to the developers :]
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! Guenther Fuchs [AT]
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* providing the linux-vserver.at domain
* constantly updating the wiki
|-
! Jan Prunk [SI]
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* using Linux-VServer
* donating money
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== Developers, Maintainers and Staff ==

''note:'' this does not include the [[Developers|Currently Active Developers]].

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! style="width: 25%" | Jacques Gelinas [CA]
(Solucorp)
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VServer Project Leader till November 2003, Inventor and
Main Developer of Linux-VServer, author of Linuxconf.

* providing a Linux-VServer (linux-vserver.org)
* providing the main domain (linux-vserver.org)
* all the work and development done with VServer
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! Sam Vilain [NZ]
(Wellington)
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Developer of the Immutable Linkage (Invert), and
per-vserver TBF CPU scheduling for O(1) Schedulers.

* all the work and development done with VServer
* still working and developing Linux-VServer
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! Simon Garner
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* developing the vskel stuff and testing vserver
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! Mark Lawrence [AU]
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* developing the vskel stuff and testing vserver
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! Micah Anderson [US]
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* maintaining up-to-date debian patches and userspace packages
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! Bastian Blank [DE]
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* integrating debian Linux-VServer kernels
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! Martin List-Petersen [IE]
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* maintaining and providing the VServer mailing list
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! Paul Sladen [UK]
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(Beeston, Nottingham)

* tracking the history of vserver for many years
* one of the best FAQs for vserver issues
* bitching at development to keep their minds sharp
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== Honorable Mentions ==

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! style="width: 25%" | Nathan Faber
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* doing a lot of detailed SMP vserver debugging
* compiling and testing hundreds of vserver kernels
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! Jonathan Sambrook
(DesignerServers)
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* hunting down at least one vserver SMP race (uts_sem).
* releasing kernel patches used at [DesignerServers]
* coding up perl wrappers for vserver syscall.
* heavy testing of Linux-VServer.
|-
! Oliver Seufer [DE]
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* local loopback changes in development series.
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! Alec Thomas [AU]
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* testing Linux-VServer on Sparc64.
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! Jan Zuchhold [DE]
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* hunting down a bug in tcp_addr_conflict().
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! Joris Bontje [NL]
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* helping to debug the hard to reproduce
* 'quotaoff hangs machine' issues.
|-
! Markus Müller [DE]
(GeNUA)
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* reporting the chmod() security issue which allowed to escape the chroot()
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! Ryan Hofschneider [US]
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* proof reading linux-vserver papers
* beta testing experimental patches
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! Veit Wahlich [DE]
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* security auditing linux-vserver
* reporting yet another proc issue
|-
! Olivier Poitrey [FR]
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* debugging several nfs related xid issues
* reporting and debugging a lot of other issues
* performance testing and feedback
|-
! James Boddington [AU]
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* debugging und testing the alpha port (vs2.0)
* kernel and tools (including dietlibc)
* testing filesystem xid tagging and attributes
* testing COW link breaking
* testing vroot devices
|-
! Jan Rekorajski [PL]
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* testing xid tagging, barrier and iunlink on
* all currently supported fs (ext2/3,xfs,reiserfs)
|-
! Kai Neubecker [DE]
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* spotting and reporting the first vs2.0 bug (missing setup of monolithic vroot device)
|-
! Chuck Gorish [US]
(SBBSNet, Inc)
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* helping to track down a nasty issue with vs2.x
* testing devel kernels
|-
! Serge Hallyn [US]
(IBM LTC.)
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* helping with the 2.6.14 port and iattr cleanup
|-
! Grzegorz Nosek [PL]
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* tracking down a tricky vs2.x procfs issue
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! Martin Koniczek [DE]
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* isolating a nasty issue with the page fault array
|-
! Rich Estill [US]
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* building the Fedora Core 4 kernels and util-vserver packages on x86_64
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'''... and all we forgot so far, for forgiving us!'''

please add yourself if appropriate.

VServer Users

2006-10-20T18:34:52Z

SiD3WiNDR:

Here is a list of '''Individuals and Organizations''' utilizing '''Linux-VServer''' technology'''...

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! style="width: 20%" | Name
! rowspan="2" | Description
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| Location
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! [http://www.fuchs.info/ Guenther Fuchs]
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Since 2002 I used vserver in experimental systems and since
2004 in production environment for own hostings including Linux router.
Herbert & the other guys did great work in improving the System
tho the actual level.

Two years ago I had the chance to compare the system to SW-Soft's
Virtuozzo (very expensive license model that time), that time the
development did not totally fit my needs for commercial webhosting
(and my time to read through the doc's was not enough).
But meanwhile one could fully rely on it - and comparing the
SW-Soft support to Herbert's replies on the mailing list,
there is no other choice to take ;-)

If I'd need a commercial vserver system again, I'd choose this one now
- thank's for the improvement and stability and - not to forget
- the GNU licensing!
|-
| Austria
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! ISPGaya
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ISPGaya (Instituto Superior Politécnico Gaya) is a "non profit"
private university in Portugal.

We have been using the Linux-VServer technology for about 2 years now.

Our university has about 900+ users which gives us the ability to test
the technology on a production environment.
All our linux servers depend on it and we currently run about 20
virtual servers on them.

The system seems pretty stable and the developers (especially Herbert Poetzl)
keep us up to date with ("almost daily") new bugfixes/features.

We haven't seen any performance problems by using this technology
and encourage everybody to try it out.
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| Portugal
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! Digital Evolution
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We use Linux-VServer for all wargames (more than a dozen right now) and all
other services as well. The stability, ease of use and performance is
unrivaled, migrating our servers to vserver is most definately one of
the best decisions we've ever made. It happily serves all people
(who, after all, try to break our security) logged in on our shellbased
wargames and shells out hunderedes of thousands connections to other
services each day.
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| Sweden
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! Nico
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I use a Lycos VDS based on the vserver for a personnal server
(irc, mail, www). It works fine and very cheap.

Thanks!
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! [http://www.assonetworx.com Association Networx]
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happily running a Linux-VServer box for its mail and hosting services.
Thx for the great work Bertl !
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| France
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! CAPEC
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Research center capec.kt.dtu.dk is happily using Linux-VServer for
web/CVS/automatic software build system. Rock solid, very easy to
manage in the every day life. Thanks, Loïch
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| Denmark
|-
! Institute of Legal Medicine
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The Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck/Austria,
is using the excellent Linux-VServer technology to be able to fit
all computing requirements for different scientific projects.

Works very well, and improved the service for our scientists!
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| Austria
|-
! University of Padova
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A Department of the university of Padova, Italy, runs happily
on Linux-VServers.

Really changed the life of administrators and improved service.
Thanks! Grat Job! -mmzz
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| Italy
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! [http://www.iwm-kmrc.de Knowledge Media]
Research Center
| rowspan=2 |
The Knowledge Media Research Center in [http://www.tuebingen.de Tübingen],
Germany now uses [http://www.gentoo.org Gentoo Linux] based VServers

* to run educational software on a scientific, i.e. psychological background,
* to develop a platform independent, highly intuitive collaborative working tool named bebop that will soon be available under GPL,
* to test drive changes of the in house network structure,
* and to demonstrate the possibilities of modern Linux systems.

On behalf of all colleagues we want to thank the developers of Linux-VServer!

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| Germany
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! [http://www.swissgamers.ch SwissGamers.ch]
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Uses Linux-VServer on all machines.
Thank you guys, many things wouldn't be possible without
Linux-VServer the way we do it, great job :)
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| Swiss
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! Yarihm
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Linux-VServer patch installed, even on machines without vservers --
I like it that much ,)
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! [http://svpdata.de SVPData Ltd.]
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We run Linux-VServer on a Debian Machine (production system) and a
SuSe Machine (Testing System). We use Linux-VServer mainly for partitioning
the www-server and the ftp-server. We also run a few MUSH Systems.

We are really happy with Linux-VServer and would not use any
other virtualization Software.
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| Germany
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! [http://www.tgunkel.de Thorsten Gunkel]
| rowspan=2 |

I switched my small private Debian Linux-server to VServer.
Now I have lots of small Linux-VServer installations with only
a minimum number of packages installed.

IMHO it's easier to maintain, I have no noticeable performance loss,
extra security if one of the systems is breached and since I
started to use it (end of 2004) no problems with Linux-VServer ever
(now it's 2006)! If you're interested in my Linux-VServer I try to
document its current state on my website:
[http://www.tgunkel.de/it/software/doc/linux_server.en Linux Server with VServer].

P.S.: Support in the IRC channel and the mailinglist has been
always very helpful, thanks!
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| Germany
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! [http://tuxfamily.org Tuxfamily]
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Uses Linux-VServer for partnership and is very happy with it.
We provide some Linux-VServer to partner and offer secure access
for tuxfamily.

Thanks to the Linux-VServer project!
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! ''Unknown''
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I've installed Linux-VServer at my university for internal use,
for university courses of operating systems and for other
didactical purposes.

It works greatly, and I'm really happy of that :)

But above all, IRC support on #vserver is always kind and effective!
Thanks to everyone in the community.
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! [http://www.powersource.cx PowerSource]
| rowspan=2 |

I've been using Linux-VServer since 2004, and have been happy about it ever since. Using it to separate services from the host system's software and being able to move around services (so vservers) from one host to the other without too much trouble

The IRC support is more than fabulous, thanks to the entire team!

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| Belgium

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! [http://www.phyxia.net Phyxia Networks]
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Using vserver to be able to offer services which need to be separated from the host, and to cut back on some machines which would take up space and power but can just as well run virtualized.
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| Belgium

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