Whois & Analysis for onliveserver.org

OnLive was a Mountain View, California-based provider of cloud virtualization technologies.

OnLive's flagship product was its cloud gaming service, which allowed subscribers to rent or demo computer games without installing them on their device.

Games were delivered to OnLive's client software as streaming video rendered by the service's servers, rather than rendered locally by the device.

This setup allowed the games to run on computers and devices that would normally be unable to run them due to insufficient hardware, and also enabled other features, such as the ability for players to record gameplay and to spectate.

The service was available through clients for personal computers and mobile devices, as well as through smart TVs and a dedicated video game console-styled device known as the OnLive Game System.

OnLive also expanded into the cloud desktop market with a sister product, OnLive Desktop—a subscription service offering a cloud-based instance of Windows Server 2008 R2 accessible via tablets.

Linux is a family of free and open-source software operating systems built around the Linux kernel.

Typically, Linux is packaged in a form known as a Linux distribution (or distro for short) for both desktop and server use.

The defining component of a Linux distribution is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.

Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name.

The Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to refer to the operating system family, as well as specific distributions, to emphasize that most Linux distributions are not just the Linux kernel, and that they have in common not only the kernel, but also numerous utilities and libraries, a large proportion of which are from the GNU project.

This has led to some controversy.

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a virtualization infrastructure for the Linux kernel that turns it into a hypervisor.

It was merged into the Linux kernel mainline in kernel version 2.6.20, which was released on February 5, 2007.

KVM requires a processor with hardware virtualization extensions.

KVM has also been ported to FreeBSD and illumos in the form of loadable kernel modules.

In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to the Internet.

Denial of service is typically accomplished by flooding the targeted machine or resource with superfluous requests in an attempt to overload systems and prevent some or all legitimate requests from being fulfilled.

A Virtual Private Server (VPS) is a virtual machine sold as a service by an Internet hosting service.