Hi. I´m going to set up a new VPS. My VPS host say I cant install Debian 10 at OpenVZ and that I need to use VMware. The VMware is about $5 month. Is VMware better then OpenVZ? Or should I use OpenVZ and run Debian 9? I will use the VPS for my own together with ISPconfig to host my sites, mailbox and some other stuff.
OpenVZ Kernel is dead, so your host is right that Debian 10 is not possible on OpenVZ. Personally, I won't use VMWare for a Linux VPS. I use VMWare for development and it's fine for that, but I won't use it to host a Linux VPS in a datacenter. My personal choice would be to use a different VPS hoster There are plenty of them that use different Linux based virtualization technologies like KVM that support Debian 10, to name a few popular: Linode, Hetzner, Digitalocean or Upcloud.
Thanks for your answer. The host is in top 3 in Sweden. They have been in the business for many years and hove own serverrooms. Will OpenVZ die out? Why dont you recommend VMware for VPS use?
I did not say that they are a bad provider, I just said that they don't provide a virtualization technology that I would use. Yes, the 'traditional' OpenVZ Kernel is already dead. Using them for Windows is fine, for Linux, they are more expensive and at least in my experience, slower. But if cost and speed are not your primary factors for choosing a virtualization technology, then using VMWare is fine.
