VPS3: What's New
The VPS v3 offers a large amount of disk space and contains many improved features, including upgrades to the operating
system and file system, improvements in core services, programs and available installations, and improved Java support.
The VPS v3 is available in three levels, or plans: Basic, 1000, and 2000.
Disk Space
The disk space of VPS v3 plans has been increased to the following quotas:
- VPS v3 Basic - 10 GB
- VPS v3 1000 - 20 GB
- VPS v3 2000 - 40 GB
Operating System
The introduction of VPS v3 upgrades the operating system controlling the server from FreeBSD 4.7 to FreeBSD 6.0. Advantages
of FreeBSD 6.0 include the following:
- An improved system scheduler (based on ULE). This provides more comprehensive fair share technology and greater user
isolation.
- Better threading support, allowing native threading for programs such as MySQL and freeing many system processes for
other needs.
- Improved support for many applications, such as Apache 2 and the FreeBSD Ports Collection.
- Support for the latest Java implementations.
- Better support for the FreeBSD packages library.
- Better operating system support from the FreeBSD community.
File System
The file system of VPS v3 also moves from Unix File System 1 (UFS1) to Unix File System 2 (UFS2). This move increases
speed, performance, and stability of the file system in general. Other advantages to UFS2 include the following:
- Support for variable-sized blocks.
- Extended flag fields.
- Extended attribute support.
- Core Services
Noteworthy changes to and information about core services include the following:
- Apache 2.2.3 comes installed as the default Web server. Support for Apache 1.x continues through a vinstall.
- Telnet is disabled by default.
- SSH is controlled by inetd and requests are throttled to control DOS-style attacks.
Programs and Available Installations
Most programs currently available for installation on VPS v2 are available for VPS v3. Noteworthy changes and issues
with programs and available installations include the following:
- PHP 5.1.5 is the default version of PHP.
- MySQL 5.0.24 is the default version of MySQL installed when you execute vinstall mysql.
- Perl 5.8.7 is the default Perl version supported. You may install other versions through the FreeBSD Ports Collection.
- The SoftCart shopping cart software is not available for VPS v3.
- The Urchin 3 Web analytics tool is not available. Urchin version 5 is supported.
Java
The VPS v3 includes support for the most current Java Developer's Kit (jdk) and Java Runtime Engine (jre). These features are
available as vinstalls (java_jdk and java_jre) on VPS v3 2000 plans. The vinstall gives instructions for downloading the
FreeBSD installation files from the FreeBSD Foundation Web site, and then uploading them to the VPS account.
The Tomcat Web application server is also available with the VPS v3. Available through a vinstall, the Tomcat server can
support several different kinds of Java applications, including servlets and JSP pages. Tomcat requires the installation
of the Java Runtime Engine or the Java Developer's Kit and is available on VPS v3 2000 plans.
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