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Joseph Mack wrote:
Joe Cooper wrote:
Instead of putting one website (or whatever) on many servers. It puts
many websites on one server. However, the twist is that with FreeVSD,
each client has their own Apache (they can even compile their own or run
their own modules), Sendmail, BIND, etc. Each client operates in a
chrooted environment, and each has their own IP--they have an 'admin'
class username with pseudo-root priviledges in their own chrooted
environment. So it's like having a colocated server, but the resources
are shared amongst several websites. Beautiful concept, since most
websites can't even begin to tax the server they run on. Most websites
could be sharing a modest server's resources with ten or twenty or a
hundred similar sites.
thanks for the explanation. I couldn't figure it out for the life of me.
Took me a bit of time to 'get' it myself. But it is actually very well
documented on the site, once you dig down a little.
Actually, though, kidding aside...it might be interesting to have
replication between multiple VSD systems, with failover (and possibly
even load balancing so the backup doesn't sit idle). Just for high
availability. Even mere mortals could then afford to have a whole
backup website with everything the primary server has on it. Hmmm...
we should join efforts. We could have the first and only
linux virtual server of linux virtual servers. :-)
I think maybe there's a law against that sort of thing.
I assume you know that there is an effort to run Linux as a job on IBM
mainframes.
There was one person working on it for a while and then IBM wrote their
own code swamping the poor guy. You can fire up a Linux box as a job,
and it will have its own disks and NICs etc and have it run webservers etc.
and you can have thousands of these things running on an mainframe.
Yep. I seem to recall seeing a slashdot mention of an IBM box running
over a thousand Linux kernels simultaneously. That's just showing off. ;-)
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Joe Cooper <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Affordable Web Caching Proxy Appliances
http://www.swelltech.com
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