On Sat, 2001-12-15 at 14:09, Tracy S. Ruggles wrote: > on 01.12.15 1:21 PM, Ian Bicking at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > If you get a dedicated server, you can definitely run multiple websites, > > off the same AppServer, or multiple AppServers. ModRewriteRecipies on > > the wiki has a little about doing this with virtual hosts. There are > > hosts that allow you to get what looks like a dedicated server, but is > > actually shared among several people -- less power than a dedicated > > host, but all the flexibility and it's cheaper. > > I have webware running on a VPS (virtual private server) being hosted at > Verio. The VPS acts like it's its own server, but is being shared on one > machine with several others. I'm running for different virtual hosts > without problem through apache. > > I can install anything and everything I want to on the machine, but it's a > little tricky because my /usr/local directory is really > /usr/home/<myaccount>/usr/local and most install and build scripts get > confused by it. It's expensive at $200-$250 a month but a whole lot cheaper > than a dedicated server and/or a hosted machine.
I'm using SPS, and at $100 they are a bit cheaper than Verio, and I think more flexible -- there's really nothing you can do to tell it's not a dedicated machine, you get root access, you can bind low ports and install your own daemons. But their reliability isn't as good as I would like, and there's been some other things that have annoyed me. I'm not sure what Verio does, but I think a number of the Linux hosts actually run on VMWare, so there's one kernel running copies of VMWare that run copies of Linux that host the virtual server. I've read about some recent patches to the Linux kernel to allow it to do this natively -- i.e., one kernel that runs seperate virtual servers -- that would be really nice, as I think more companies might start this service and efficiency would be better (potentially scaling better to the low end as well). Ian _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
