tonster
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response 58 of 66:
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Feb 27 16:54 UTC 2010 |
resp:57: I think I've adequately outlined my position on virtual
machines at commercial facilities in prior posts. I agree with you that
it can work very well, but I don't think any commercial company will be
able to offer what Grex needs to run well at a reasonable cost. I don't
know what you're paying to colo the box now, but I think you could only
get a fraction of the memory/disk/cpu at a vm hosting provider for the
same cost.
As far as what I can offer, I'm currently planning to install the new
box that Grex would go on with 2x500GB mirrored drives, so I would give
Grex a fraction of that space. I think it's not unreasonable to say
200GB would be no problem. If Grex actually wants more space, I could
reconsider and get different drives, but I already have this hardware.
The physical box is an HP server, has 2 CPU's, and 1GB of ram (though
I'm adding a lot more RAM once I finally get around to ordering it).
The box ultimately won't be dedicated to Grex, but the other VM's that
will be running or installed on it are not used often and only used in
testing configurations for work. I wouldn't anticipate them often
conflicting with grex in any way.
I've compiled multiple things at once and installed multiple
applications on multiple machines at the same time before (I use it to
test the zimbra mail software, which is a fairly intensive app at times,
so it's stress tested) and usually theres no real negative affect on the
other VM's.
My ISP is AT&T UVerse, so I've got pretty good bandwidth.
OpenBSD would depend on whether it could run on VMware, which as you've
said, I believe it can. I've offered before, and if anyone wants to
play around and test it, I'd be happy to assign the VM, give it some
space, and give some people access to install the OS and play. The
Virtual Console would be through VMware Infrastructure Client, although
if I install vSphere instead, it may be a slightly different client.
Either way, I can assign all rights to whoever wants/needs them so they
can do whatever is needed anytime they need to. The only real obvious
hurdle would be if I lost power or internet access, obviously the server
would go down.
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tonster
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Feb 28 02:15 UTC 2010 |
I'm not aware of anything in the uverse terms and conditions that would
prevent me from hosting grex. additionally, I wouldn't be using at&t
IP's as I have my own tunneled IP addresses that I host my things on, so
it's unlikely they'd know anything about it, and any complaints or
anything would end up going to that ISP in the form of complaints or
anything, and that absolutely allows me to host whatever I want to.
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response 63 of 66:
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Mar 7 14:27 UTC 2010 |
See coop:248 for a recap of the discussion of running Grex under a virtual
hosting solution. To summarize, I see Tony's solution as sounding a lot more
like running Grex under a virtualization soltuion on our own hardware than
running Grex under a commercial virtual provider, which was my objection.
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