Renting a dedicated, but getting a VPS. How to detect?

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Published on 2009-10-26T14:56:24Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 20:31 UTC
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When renting a dedicated server, how can one be certain than he/she is not getting a VPS or some other virtual machine variant instead of a true dedicated hardware box?

Which checks can be run (assuming it is a linux box) to detect such case?

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