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[csnyder]

On 10/24/07, Pete Czech - New Possibilities Group, LLC
<czech at npgroup.net> wrote:
> This is a little bit off topic, but I'm wondering how the group feels
> about running servers off of VMWare.  I have a social networking site
> currently with about 1M+ uniques/mo.  Runs on php5/MySQL.  I've been
> toying with moving to servers hosted on VMWare and load balanced.
> Anyone have any experiences, pros, cons of installing such an architecture?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pete Czech

There have been recent issues running Linux on VMWare--you have to
configure 2.6 kernels not to hit the clock so hard, a fairly easy fix
in recent versions. I still saw above average clock skew on mine
(30-40 seconds over 24 hours), but ymmv. I've never tried to put one
under production load.

I like virtualization a lot for simple things like proxys and mirrors,
which I'm happy to let somebody else host. There are a lot of folks
doing VPS. My advice is to find a host that allows you to build your
own images, and stay away from the "web control panel" unless you have
time to audit it. Check out Amazon's EC2, also.

-- 
Chris Snyder
http://chxo.com/