So....
Take freevsd and run it on a linux virtual server
as described by:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/linuxvirtualserver/
Is that what you are talking about?
How does this fail?
"Kevin Druet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
% wouldnt that make this a perfect world,,,
% we gave some thought to that very question, and concluded that
% clustering is the best solution, we are working on a freeVSD cluster
% addon, it seems that the vsd protocols do not like to coexist in a
% cluster.
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% >
% > "Kevin Druet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
% >
% >
% > % No you have not missed anything, the point I was trying to make
% was
% > % that not every customer is going to be a "heavy hitter" distribute
% them
% > % appropriately....
% >
% >
% > Ok... Suppose that I have several racks of boxes doing stuff.
% > And as we know what various virtual servers load's will vary
% > dramatically. So some systems are going to develop hot spots.
% >
% > IE, places where lots of the virtuals on those machines have started
% > to be active.
% >
% > is there any easy way to redistribute servers from one box to
% another?
% >
% > IE, if I have two vsd boxes, where one has a light load and the other
% > has a heavy load, is there a way to pick up and move a virtual to
% > a different box in a way that works?
% >
% >
% >
% >
% >
% >
% >
% >
% >
% > "Kevin Druet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
% >
% > %
% > %
% > % > > I think that alot of you are thinking that the VS's are going
% to
% > % get alot
% > % > > of hits, well this is just simply not the case,
% > % >
% > % > why is it not the case? something special about VS's that stops
% them
% > % getting
% > % > hits? You get a customer who's virtual hosting account gets 5gb
% a
% > % month and
% > % > he buys a VS he's still doing 5gb a month or am I missing
% something
% > % here?
% > % >
% > % No you have not missed anything, the point I was trying to make
% was
% > % that not every customer is going to be a "heavy hitter" distribute
% them
% > % accordingly and there wont be any trouble.
% > %
% > % We have high traffic high usage customers, and they pay for a 1U
% > % server, we see the small clients as perfect for FreeVSD, as we can
% pack
% > % quite a few onto one system...
% > %
% > % the majority of our VS customers do not use SQL at all, only the
% fp
% > % server extensions, our server load is quite low,,,
% > %
% > % I find great satisfaction in the statement regarding the 9 am
% email
% > % pick up,, I thought I was the only one who sweats bullets every
% morning
% > % for an hour....
% > %
% > %
% > % > > My larger customers, are in the range of about 1500 hits per
% month
% > % and
% > % > > about 2000 emails per month spread over 10 to 20 users.
% > % >
% > % > trust me these are not large customers - our large customers get
% > % 1500+ an
% > % > hour - here is last weeks hits for what we would class an
% average to
% > % high
% > % > customer
% > % > (who also runs a medium size mysql database)
% > % >
% > % > Overall Accesses (hits) 84,555
% > % > Bytes 477,212,020
% > % > Visits 13,288
% > % >
% > % > we also have those sites getting less than 100 a month usually
% these
% > % > sites don't renew anywhere they just go offline when there year
% is up
% > % >
% > % > > I seem to think that you all who think that 10 virtuals per
% server
% > % is too
% > % > > much are still running windows,, remember this, unused CPU is
% > % wasted CPU.
% > % >
% > % > And rightly so..10 VS's 'could' be too many - we have a server
% with
% > % just 8
% > % > virtual accounts, all together the server pushes out over 80gig -
% and
% > % a mix
% > % > of applications perl/mysql/etc I wouldn't want a thousand of
% these on
% > % one
% > % > server - we tend to measure our servers on traffic throughput
% because
% > % we
% > % > have found it pretty much directly relates to cpu if you
% carefully
% > % > mix/juggle your app sites with your low hit html sites - and
% believe
% > % me we
% > % > don't run windows and we do have wasted cpu to cover the rush
% hour
% > % >
% > % > I would suggest it depends who your target market is - I
% certainly
% > % wouldn't
% > % > want
% > % > 1500 of our average sites on one server - the 9am e-mail pick-up
% rush
% > % would
% > % > be real fun if we did
% > % >
% > % > Gary
% > % >
% > % >
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% > % >
% > %
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% > %
% > % http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?
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