>> [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. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech