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Here is my conjecture from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5901649 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5901649 In summary, I think it's b

by chubot 13y ago

Here is my conjecture from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5901649 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5901649 In summary, I think it's because containers, although open source, are a relatively commercial technology. Interested in any comments from people were there in the 90's when lots of hosting providers started using Linux.

jpetazzo 13y ago
raises a hand In the early 2000s, I was in the hosting business, and we started using UML (user-mode-linux), then vserver and openvz. When Xen came around, we switched to that, because it made more sense for us (and for our customers): more control, more "this is your machine" feeling. "Yes, but containers are better because they are lightweight!" Of course, but this idea was pointless back then, because people who wanted really lightweight things went to shared hosting (and for massive PHP hosting, containers can't beat a single Apache instance serving tens of thousands of vhosts; at least not yet). Maybe (maybe!) things changed with the rise of stacks like Python/Ruby/Node.js/etc for which there are no cheap shared hosting solutions like there is for PHP. Then containers are obviously cheaper than running your own VPS, and easier to setup (and isolate) than shared hosting on a single box.