Chapter 7. HOSTING UNTRUSTED USERS UNDER XEN: LESSONS FROM THE TRENCHES
Now that we've gone over the basics of Xen administration—storage, networking, provisioning, and management—let's look at applying these basics in practice. This chapter is mostly a case study of our VPS hosting firm, prgmr.com, and the lessons we've learned from renting Xen instances to the public.
The most important lesson of public Xen hosting is that the users can't be trusted to cooperate with you or each other. Some people will always try to seize as much as they can. Our focus will be on preventing this tragedy of the commons.
Advantages for the Users
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