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"Personally, I think we are on the cusp of a transition from VPS (xen/hvm) to VPS (containers)."

A transition back to, I think ... the very first VPS provider (JohnCompanies, 2001)[1] was based entirely on FreeBSD jail and was entirely container based, even though those containers were presented as standalone FreeBSD systems.

[1] Yes, verio did have that odd VPS-like enterprise service earlier than that, but JC did the first VPS as we came to know it.

[Touche]

Pardon my ignorance but don't containers share the same kernel as the host? Meaning I can't run a Ubuntu container in a BSD jail or vice-versa? I don't want to use containers if it limits my OS choice to being from the same family as the host.