On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Rio wrote: > also please check out linux-vserver > > http://linux-vserver.org/Welcome_to_Linux-VServer.org > > we have been running it for a year now with absolutely no hiccups whatsoever > and no excessive loading! we have 84 virtual servers on 1 machine and 40 on > another machine and i am configuring a third host as i write this. my > estimates are that the 2 existing machines could easily handle 100 virtual > servers each. the virtuals can be mostly any linux distro mix though the most > popular are gentoo, debian, redhat, centos and ubuntu.
Trying to find out why people use virtual servers for realservers One person here (forget who) said that it was cheaper to have one big server than to have the same server capacity in single machines. The next question then is why don't you have the big server which is currently split into 84 realservers as just one big realserver? If you need failover (do virtual servers fail?) why not just 5 machines (enough that you'll only loose 20% on failure)? Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! _______________________________________________ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - lvs-users@LinuxVirtualServer.org Send requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users