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by sorenbs 5121 days ago
The ability to easily clone a server, apply changes, test and eventually put it in production is the number one reason we keep pouring money at aws.
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Not sure if you need a "clone" for that. I'm running FreeBSD 9.0 with ZFS on Hetzner. I can do a ZFS snapshot, apply changes, test, and then either commit the changes or rollback to the snapshot.