Re: [NMOSUG-L] Renting virtual appliances instead of VPSs?

On Tuesday 10 April 2007 19:32, James Hamilton wrote:
> Wesley, what types of systems do you run your virtual hosts on (# of
> cpu's amount of physical ram etc.)?  Seems like you could really get a
> lot of bang for your buck going that route at home as opposed to the
> closet full of old cobbled systems.

Well, I have various uses for virtual machines, not all hosting. If I'm 
setting something up for "real" use, generally just getting something with 
multiple-processors and as much RAM as possible is a good bet. But for 
example, I've got one host that can handle running 5-10 virtual machines 
with a moderate-light load on each that's a dual-core amd64 (Athlon 64 X2 
4200+) w/ 2GiB RAM.

I've also run 3 virtual hosts off a dual-core PIII-700 1 GiB system in the 
past with no problem, but it was very basic, low-footprint stuff like 
serving DNS, XMPP, etc.

On the other hand, closets full of old cobbled systems isn't too bad for the 
low-budget penny-pincher, since they can often be had for cheap or free, 
and a PII-400 w/ 256 MiB on it's own can outperform a virtual machine on a 
shared host for many tasks. This isn't "corporate" friendly, of course. ;)

-- 
Wesley J. Landaker <[email protected]> <xmpp:[email protected]>
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