[email protected] writes:

> if that is your problem, just create chroot sandboxes with your
> different services in them. that let's you get most of the isolation
> of VMs, but with non of the CPU/ram overhead.

Yup.  I started selling FreeBSD jails, and they work really well if everyone
cooperates, but one box can thrash everyone's cache.  It was a lot of
sysadmin work to make service semi-reasonable when you have untrusted users.
(and you'd have to keep kicking people off who try to do 'big' things on 
a system sized for 'small' things)  

It is a happy medium, often, when you control everything, but there is 
a tradeoff.


> > How come anyone still listens to sales?  I mean, the last person I
> > am going to take advice from is someone who has an obvious interest
> > in deceiving me.
> 
> as far as management goes, the rational is that they are the experts
> who know more than their staff does (on this particular topic anyway)

Yes, but it doesn't matter how much they know if they are not acting in
your interest.


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