{"id":211,"date":"2016-10-27T23:49:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T18:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostmayo.com\/blog\/?p=211"},"modified":"2016-10-25T23:52:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T18:22:29","slug":"tell-using-vps-dedicated-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hostmayo.com\/blog\/tell-using-vps-dedicated-server\/","title":{"rendered":"How to tell if you are using VPS or Dedicated Server?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Does the command <code>esxtop<\/code> work ?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This tool is used to check performances on Virtual Machines<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check the network interfaces.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Run the command <code>ifconfig<\/code>. If you see something like this:<\/p>\n<pre><code>venet0    Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00\r\n          inet addr:127.0.0.1  P-t-P:127.0.0.1  Bcast:0.0.0.0  Mask:255.255.255.255\r\n          UP BROADCAST POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1\r\n          RX packets:99999 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0\r\n          TX packets:99999 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0\r\n          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0\r\n          RX bytes:126223307 (120.3 MiB)  TX bytes:2897538 (2.7 MiB)\r\n\r\nvenet0:0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00\r\n          inet addr:6x.xxx.xxx.xxx  P-t-P:6x.xxx.xxx.xxx  Bcast:6x.xxx.xxx.xxx  Mask:255.255.255.255\r\n          UP BROADCAST POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1400  Metric:1\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>you are probably have a VPS since venet0 is telling that this server is being an OpenVZ VPS. Note: This is not 100% fool proof, some VPS like Xen have an eth0.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check devices\/system:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Run <code>lspci<\/code> and <code>dmesg<\/code> as root. If you see something like:<\/p>\n<pre><code>VMWare SVGA device\r\nacd0: CDROM &lt;VMware Virtual IDE CDROM Drive\/00000001&gt; at ata0-master UDMA33\r\nda0: &lt;VMware Virtual disk 1.0&gt; Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Then you are using a VPS.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check if some files exists:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s a VPS running OpenVZ they&#8217;d have a file called <code>\/proc\/user_beancounters<\/code>. View <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.openvz.org\/Proc\/user_beancounters\">http:\/\/wiki.openvz.org\/Proc\/user_beancounters<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<p>Look if <code>\/proc\/vz<\/code> or <code>\/proc\/vz\/veinfo<\/code> exists (for OpenVZ) or <code>\/proc\/sys\/xen, \/sys\/bus\/xen or \/proc\/xen<\/code> (for Xen)<\/p>\n<p>Check if <code>\/proc\/self\/status<\/code> has an <code>s_context<\/code> or <code>VxID<\/code> field.<\/p>\n<p>If one of these file exists, then you have a VPS.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IP lookup:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You could do a reverse IP lookup to check to see if any other websites are hosted on the same IP.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check Memory:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Run <code>lspci<\/code> and look for RAM memory: <code>Qumranet, Inc. Virtio memory balloon<\/code>. 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