[nlug] State of Open Source Virtualization .. not a rant or flame war

2008-11-06 Thread andrew mcelroy
Greetings, I am not trying to start a flame war or a rant, but I am trying to get a feel for what Open Source virtualization solutions are actually used. Currently I have a few servers virtualized inside Xen. However, I keep hearing that KVM is the way to goTM for hosting websites if you must

[nlug] Re: State of Open Source Virtualization .. not a rant or flame war

2008-11-06 Thread Chris McQuistion
I've used VMWare, in the past, and I currently use Virtual Iron, because it has fairly simple administration and is far cheaper than VMWare, if you want the bells and whistles. The big reasons to use VMWare or Virtual Iron (in my opinion) is the nice gui administration tools and their ability to

[nlug] Re: State of Open Source Virtualization .. not a rant or flame war

2008-11-06 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
I like VirtualBox. www.virtualbox.org They have a rather good enterprise solution as well. On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Chris McQuistion [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I've used VMWare, in the past, and I currently use Virtual Iron, because it has fairly simple administration and is far cheaper

[nlug] Re: Good web hosting with Django support

2008-11-06 Thread Douglass Clem
$1/month for 10GB storage and 20GB bandwidth/month at 3ix.com? Personally, that sounds too good to be true, aka huge overselling. Am I wrong? Douglass Clem crashsystems.net Public Key: http://crashsystems.net/pubkey.asc --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

[nlug] Re: State of Open Source Virtualization .. not a rant or flame war

2008-11-06 Thread Mark J Bailey
One more thing that might be worth noting. I had started out making the jump to VMware Server 2.0 on a 32bit CentOS 5.2 install on a Core 2 Duo box with 3gb RAM. I had access to another Core 2 Duo box with 4gb RAM. Under 32bit OS, you are limited to just over 3gb RAM usable. I had read

[nlug] Re: State of Open Source Virtualization .. not a rant or flame war

2008-11-06 Thread David R. Wilson
I have used VMWare in the past. That was because the platform that development work was being done on was very unstable. With VMWare at least when something crashes you can take the image that just blew up or the earlier image and start again without the 'you moved your mouse please reload'

[nlug] Re: Good web hosting with Django support

2008-11-06 Thread Jack Coats
They could be, but I am running a low-traffic site for my daughter and her friends. so cheap, and it just works for our needs. I didn't see Django listed on their 'toys' available. Even their 'unlimited bandwidth' version for $8/mo sounds pretty nice. Sofar, it has just worked. Douglass