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Hello all, I thought the list could use a little praise… I’m getting ready to roll out a beta
version of our CMS and I wanted to use a server-partitioning tool so that we
could easily deploy an installation.
I wanted to have the flexibility to later move the installation to a
dedicated server or server farm if the installation needed to grow. Well, using a Pentium 75 with 64MB of RAM as a test bed I
installed vservers running PostgreSQL, Postfix, Cyrus, Apache
1.3.27/PHP/mod_perl/mod_ssl with no issues. My host operating system is fully updated install of RedHat
8.0 and the vservers all run a fully updated, slightly modified, minimal
installation of RedHat 7.3. I
created the vservers using the “newvserver” tool and everything went
smoothly. It asked me if I wanted
to create a vserver from an existing vserver, the host operating system or one
of a few choices of redhat operating systems. Because I standardized on RedHat from the beginning of the
development of our app, this is perfect for me. (I realize there are other good choices… I really love
apt-get from debian, and Gentoo is so slick… But we started with RedHat and
sticking with it has had more benefits than dis-advantages) Considering the usefulness of this tool so far, I suspect that
all my new servers will be deployed with at least one vserver running on a hardened
install of RedHat. The wheel’s in
my mind have spun with the possibilities for something like this. Some things I’ve thought of are a single physical server
running several vservers attached to a loop back interface. The physical server would provide vpn
capabilities to windows and linux clients who can only access resources
provided by the vservers over an authenticated and secure channel. Another idea would be to test the
scalability of applications without having to make a big hardware
purchase. For example, one
physical server could provide a virtual database server with several virtual web
servers and even virtual load balancers. Maybe someone has already figured out a way to do that… If so, I’d love to hear about those
successes. Thanks for the great tool… Matthew
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