Why does running a containerized app with AWS Lightsail cost twice as much as using a virtual server?

As per https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/ , running a lightsail VPS with 512 MB Memory, 1 Core Processor costs $3.50 a month. However, in that same link it shows that the lowest cost of containerized app on the service is twice as much at $7.00 a month with vCPU: 0.25 (shared) and RAM: 512MB I’m not sure if … Read more

Is 1:1 the ideal VM consolidation ratio when using containers (e.g. Docker)? [closed]

Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by editing this post. Closed 5 years ago. Improve this question Here’s my problem: I have some servers I want to deploy REST services as Docker containers … Read more

Why virtualization still used instead of containers? [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 7 months ago. Improve this question In 2021 era of containers, cloud providers still use hypervisor to make it possible to use more of a system’s available resources and … Read more

Container (Apache) exit after 1 seconds

I’ve made a mistake in my apache2.conf and so every time I try to start the container, it exits: #docker start portail portail #docker ps -a CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES 0c2cd80ab3fc jnyryan/simplesamlphp “/usr/sbin/apache2ct 25 hours ago Exited (1) 1 seconds ago portail So how can I resolve my problem? I’ve made … Read more

How do hosting providers give each container a unique public IP? [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 6 years ago. Improve this question I’m looking in to starting my own hosting company; even if I’m only paid in experience. At first, I thought I’d create shell … Read more

placing war file in the webapps subdirectory of the servlet container’s installation directory

i am trying to install a particular software and it is asking me to place the .war file in the webapps subdirectory of the servlet container’s installation directory. I am not sure which location is this exactly. I know that the tomcat 6 webapps directory is in /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps but is this the directory where i … Read more

Linux Containers (LXC) : lx-execute and networking

I have a question about LXC Containers. I have some containers, if I lxc-start them, they come up with networking fine, but I want to just be able to run commands against them using lxc-execute, without starting the whole thing. However, when I do this, there is no connectivity? – I guess as doesnt run … Read more