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I consult with VPS VOIP solutions for LyliX.net, and let me tell you, if one of our customers wanted to set up something like this, I think we'd refer them to someone else :)

This idea is bad on so many levels - not only are you introducing a third party unnecessarily, but it's just a rehash of collect calling, but even more annoying! If you want your friends to call you, how about texting them? A lot less akward and more convenient.

Not to obnoxiously plug, but lylix.net, a Linux/Asterisk VPS host that I consult for, has gone from a single-man show with few customers to nearly overflowing with incoming business as a result of an aggressive "white hat" SEO campaign - mostly just putting up good content on the site in a format that search engines like (and probably also the thousands of links from slashdot from my sig/homepage).

These results surprised me very much - I've gotten over a thousand hits on lylix.net as a result of my postings in the last month and a half, but this is easily dwarfed by lylix's position as the 3rd hit for 'asterisk VPS', first for 'linux asterisk vps', and being 4th-5th page for just "VPS".

For those who can put up quality content and carve out a decent search rank, Google is a veritable gold mine. Yes, it's possible that looking at the internet through Google's lens gives a skewed perspective, but it's still the best way to find most things. Word-of-mouth is find for big sites, or niche sites known by your friends, but I can honestly say I do not find most things online that way.

If the aliens were really intelligent, they would have left an Opera circle.

Servers that don't access much of the disk (say, less than 1GB or whatever the size of the flash cache is) the majority of the time would benefit from this the same as laptops, by letting their disks spin down.

Also fast restart is especially good for critical servers as a method of reducing both planned and unplanned downtime. I know at lylix.net, we will be getting one of these as soon as Gentoo Linux properly supports it - you don't want an Asterisk box down longer than it has to be.

At we host many Asterisk VPSes, and because our customers rely on us for their phone service, any downtime, even planned well in advance, is something we try very hard to avoid. Because downtime from security patches is inevitable, this would be a big win for us, and a good selling point, so using it seems to be a no brainer.

My question is - what kinds of support can/will the linux kernel have for this? We run Gentoo Linux as our host OS, and I cannot see us migrating to Windows for the forseeable future. I searched a bit online, and found this ask slashdot story, but no authoritative answer. Anyone?

Digg mirror of the story can be found here

<shameless plug> If you need an Asterisk VPS, (or any other kind) check out lylix.net - guarantee we never need mirrored :) </shameless plug>

This is great news! I do contracting work for Maas Digital, and we have a 30-CPU renderfarm running a weird combination of Debian-32 and Red Hat 64 bit binary overlays. This should simplify things immensely!

At my other job (lylix.net), we had to move away from Debian to Gentoo for this reason (among others), so it's good to see it finally being

Yes, my friend who runs lylix.net uses VServer and absolutely loves it. He had far too many problems with UML and couldn't be happier with his upgrade. He has compiled a special VServer distro that apparently sells very well.

I've hosted many things on a VServer he runs for me, including a subversion repository, and some web-apps, and it's worked really well for me - it was invaluable during my masters degree, as the school-supplied servers were far too restricted.

Yes, my friend who runs lylix.net uses VServer and absolutely loves it. He had far too many problems with UML and couldn't be happier with his upgrade. He has compiled a special VServer distro that apparently sells very well.

I've hosted many things on a VServer he runs for me, including a subversion repository, and some web-apps, and it's worked really well for me - it was invaluable during my masters degree, as the school-supplied servers were far too restricted.