On 10/24/07, Pete Czech - New Possibilities Group, LLC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a little bit off topic, but I'm wondering how the group feels > about running servers off of VMWare. I have a social networking site > currently with about 1M+ uniques/mo. Runs on php5/MySQL. I've been > toying with moving to servers hosted on VMWare and load balanced. > Anyone have any experiences, pros, cons of installing such an architecture? > > Thanks, > > Pete Czech
There have been recent issues running Linux on VMWare--you have to configure 2.6 kernels not to hit the clock so hard, a fairly easy fix in recent versions. I still saw above average clock skew on mine (30-40 seconds over 24 hours), but ymmv. I've never tried to put one under production load. I like virtualization a lot for simple things like proxys and mirrors, which I'm happy to let somebody else host. There are a lot of folks doing VPS. My advice is to find a host that allows you to build your own images, and stay away from the "web control panel" unless you have time to audit it. Check out Amazon's EC2, also. -- Chris Snyder http://chxo.com/ _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
