Virtual Private Server (VPS) or Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS) are two terms that describe the same thing – a share (or slice) of a physical server. VPS’s are becoming very popular amongst web hosters and developers who’s sites requirements are greater than a shared hosting supplier can provide, but do not yet demand their own dedicated server.

With shared hosting you get some web space that you can run your site on, however, problems can arise if your site is too busy (it can affect other users with that shared hosting provider) or, if the software that you want to run (mailserver, web blog, picture gallery, bulletin …) has certain requirements that a shared hosting provider does not provide.

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Thought I’d post a quick message about something that kept me busy for way too long!

If you get any permission errors while trying to setup Xen along the lines of …

then it may be worth checking if you’ve got selinux enabled. Check the file /etc/selinux/config and try changing

and reboot to see if that cures your problems. If it does then you can either leave selinux disabled (ensure you know the consequences of doing this) or grant the required permissions for selinux.