Comment by ansible

I use LXC a lot for our relatively small production setup. And yes, I'm treating the servers like pets, not cattle.

What's nice is that I can snapshot a container and move it to another physical machine. Handy for (manual) load balancing and upgrades to the physical infrastructure. It is also easy to run a snapshot of the entire server and then run an upgrade, then if the upgrade fails, you roll back to the old snapshot.