vmware What is a good alterative to VMWARE?

tony33

tony33

What is a good alterative to VMWARE?

I need something to be used for webhosting to create a VPS.
I have a website that is coded in php8.2 and need something that has a free version that can be easily upgraded
over time to a paid version like a pro version.
It needs to have some API that I can use with php or could use with my website.

Also what do people use to automate the installation of an OS and the software's like apache that includes
it's configurations to use the clients domain name etc. I need to have a way where you just place an order
click and pay and then instantly install the OS selected and the programs needed with the domain name or names.

I don't know if people use a custom .iso files that once the install of the OS in completed it runs a custom script ?

I just would like an insight on how would one do this.

Thanks in advance.
 
tony33 said:
What is a good alterative to VMWARE?
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Xenserver/Citrix Hypervisor, Proxmox, Linux+kvm.

tony33 said:
Also what do people use to automate the installation of an OS and the software's like apache that includes
it's configurations to use the clients domain name etc.
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Ansible is quite popular nowadays, but there's also Puppet, Chef, CFEngine or just a lot of custom scripting.


tony33 said:
I need to have a way where you just place an order
click and pay and then instantly install the OS selected and the programs needed with the domain name or names.
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Many VPS providers have built their own custom interface for this. A lot of these virtualization software have APIs you can use to programmatically spin up and configure new VMs.
 
It's interesting how different people interpret things differently. :)
As this is FreeBSD forums I assumed OP was asking about possible hypervisors on a FreeBSD host, not hypervisors in general.
 
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