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Dec 4 03:45 UTC 2008

resp:5 Did you read resp:4?

resp:6 Maybe, but that needs to be investigated.  My suspicion is not; this
is the new version of what services like rackspace used to do; sell you a
machine in colo, the hardware maintained by them, but you run whatever you
want on it.  It's a specification of "the cloud."  And it's a nice idea, as
long as your provider doesn't go out of business.

I think the idea of getting ISP access for our users isn't a bad one.  That
would be pretty interesting, and might save us some dough.

resp:10 Part of the problem with virtualization is that bugs have recently
been discovered in both Xen and VMware (and presumably other virtualization
packages) that allow root on a virtual host to leverage its way to root on
the physical host.  From there, all the other virtual machines are toast. 
That's a lot of risk to assume.

resp:11 Darn skippy!  I doubt mostof these hosting services are ready for
what Grex does.