>> [T]hey have died occasionally ... always due to disk failures or the
>> like.  Every disk death causes 1-2 days of abject horror.
> Running that many functions on a single machine is a recipe for that.
> I used to do that, and it sucked.  Life is easier if you part out
> those functions.  Virtualization helps a lot there.

Not all that much; if you have a hsot running a half-dozen VMs and its
disk dies, it takes out all the half-dozen VMs at once.

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