Containers were incredibly popular in the hosting industry for a long time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuozzo_(company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtu

Containers were incredibly popular in the hosting industry for a long time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuozzo_(company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuozzo_(company) at that time SWsoft and their Virtuozzo hosting platform Docker marketed container idea to the different audience.