[swinog] Virtualization for Webhosters / OpenVZ

2011-05-04 Diskussionsfäden Philip Iezzi
Hi As a small web hosting provider we are planning to switch from physical-only servers to virtualization. So far, our favorite virtualization platform is OpenVZ under Debian Squeeze. We might consider running Proxmox as host system but prefer sticking with plain Debian (even though the future

Re: [swinog] Virtualization for Webhosters / OpenVZ

2011-05-04 Diskussionsfäden Viktor Steinmann
Dear Philip While we're not a hosting provider, we still do have a lot of experience with virtualization platforms. We are currently running ~150 vSphere and Citrix XenServer servers and we've played around with Xen, KVM and others. Two things I would like to give as advice: - Storge is

Re: [swinog] Virtualization for Webhosters / OpenVZ

2011-05-04 Diskussionsfäden Peter Rohrer
Hi Philip Am Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2011 schrieb Philip Iezzi: We're looking for a Swiss hosting provider who is actively using such a single kernel virtualization technology. What's your experience with OpenVZ? OpenVZ is running stable, I can't remember any outage because of OpenVZ. How about

Re: [swinog] Virtualization for Webhosters / OpenVZ

2011-05-04 Diskussionsfäden Mathias Seiler
Hi Philip Viktor's advice really sums it up. Since this is a network operator's list, I'll dig a little bit more into the network part: You probably want to invest some time to separate the network, implement QoS, configure firewalls and design for redundancy (also first hop redundancy such