About Xen Hosting

The goal of our Xen hosting setup was to provide cheap, reliable, and community managed Xen hosting. I think we're doing pretty well on all fronts!

Using the economy of scale we can offer cheap fast and reliable hosting to a small number of users by renting a single dedicated host, and dividing it up into multiple virtual machines - one per user.

History

The service was started in 2006 and is now in its second year of operation.

None of the users from our first year chose to leave in our second year - and thanks to the falling price of hardware we've been able to upgrade the specifications of each users Xen guest each year.

Initially each guest had 256Mb of memory and 10Gb of disk. Now they have 1Gb of memory and 40Gb of disk!

Create Your Own Xen Host

As we only maintain a single server we're not looking for new users at this time, our host is full!

However we'd love to see other groups emulating this setup and we've documented the setup of our server pretty thoroughly in the hopes that it would be useful.

If the details aren't sufficient feel free to ask for more assistance upon our mailing lists.