Re: [OT] Re: Repost: Anyone using virtual server for mod_perl hosts?

2001-02-13 Thread Malcolm Beattie
G.W. Haywood writes: On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Malcolm Beattie wrote: you can run *thousands* of separate Linux images on a S/390 How much, to the nearest order of magnitude, does a S/390 cost? How long is a piece of string? An S/390 can be anything from about $100 on ebay for an extremely

Re: [OT] Re: Repost: Anyone using virtual server for mod_perl hosts?

2001-02-13 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:28:20AM +, Malcolm Beattie wrote: you'll see that IBM reckons you can get down to $500 per server (disk not included) by putting 2500 instances on a brand new fancy $1.2 million z900. Assuming all the virtual linux servers were fully loaded with tasks (say

Re: Antwort: Repost: Anyone using virtual server for mod_perl hosts?

2001-02-13 Thread Peter J. Schoenster
On 13 Feb 2001, at 16:45, Stas Bekman wrote: Now, has anyone tried this services? Do I have to worry about anything? Why didn't Stas list them in his article? -- they don't appear in the Guide either -- Do they have a fundamental or practical flaw I can't see? cauze I've never tried

Antwort: Repost: Anyone using virtual server for mod_perl hosts?

2001-02-12 Thread Michael . Jacob
perl/mod_perl/apache - Apache Toolbox is great... :-) I'm happy with this virtual box and had no problems. Michael, http://j-e-b.net Datum: 30.01.2001 19:49 An:"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Repost: Anyone using "virtual server"

[OT] Re: Repost: Anyone using virtual server for mod_perl hosts?

2001-02-12 Thread Malcolm Beattie
Malcolm Beattie writes: 50 boxes: no problem. 200 boxes: 5 racks or 1U, getting messy. 1000 boxes: admin nightmare. Plus you don't get much too many built-in reliability features with a 1U box. Now consider that you can run *thousands* of separate Linux images on a S/390 box which consists

Re: [OT] Re: Repost: Anyone using virtual server for mod_perl hosts?

2001-02-12 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi guys, On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Malcolm Beattie wrote: you can run *thousands* of separate Linux images on a S/390 How much, to the nearest order of magnitude, does a S/390 cost? 73, Ged.

Re: Repost: Anyone using virtual server for mod_perl hosts?

2001-01-31 Thread Malcolm Beattie
Robert Landrum writes: The S390 appearently runs some type of software that allows you to set limits on your partitions, so no matter what, you always have some percentage of the CPU at your disposal. It's called VM and it's a lot more flexible than that. This is not the case with the Sun

Repost: Anyone using virtual server for mod_perl hosts?

2001-01-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
As many people understood I mean some kind of virtual host service, I would like to restate my question. There are companies (Verio at least) offering a 'virtual machine' running a virtualized OS. Verio is offering NetBSD and Solaris. They have a seriouly large iron where many virtual machines

Re: Repost: Anyone using virtual server for mod_perl hosts?

2001-01-30 Thread Blue Lang
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Martin Langhoff wrote: There are companies (Verio at least) offering a 'virtual machine' running a virtualized OS. Verio is offering NetBSD and Solaris. They have a seriouly large iron where many virtual machines run, each virtual machine gets a share of CPU, HD and RAM

Re: Repost: Anyone using virtual server for mod_perl hosts?

2001-01-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
Blue Lang wrote: Woah.. I had never heard of this. Have you actually been on a box? I'm calling them to see if a demo is available. I have been on such a box, once. Unluckily, I wasn't root, so I could not do much there. Of course, if someone is eating up resources, I'll have to fight

Re: Repost: Anyone using virtual server for mod_perl hosts?

2001-01-30 Thread Robert Landrum
On a visit to Alaska (the Perl Whirl) we visited the Alaska Department of Technology or something similar (I honestly don't remember) where they were running an IBM S390 with partitions for NT, Linux, and a few other operating systems. The S390 appearently runs some type of software that

Re: Repost: Anyone using virtual server for mod_perl hosts?

2001-01-30 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Blue Lang wrote: There are companies (Verio at least) offering a 'virtual machine' running a virtualized OS. Verio is offering NetBSD and Solaris. They have a seriouly large iron where many virtual machines run, each virtual machine gets a share of CPU, HD