[email protected] wrote: > > [email protected] wrote: > >> I agree with 100% The cloud is just someone else's computer. I was > >> referring to local machines and the use of VMs. > > > > Oh, well, sometimes that's a nice encapsulation mechanism and > > sometimes it's too much bother for what you're doing. > > > > It's really easy for me to host several friends' websites by > > just putting new stanzas in /etc/nginx/sites_enabled. No point > > in separate VMs. > > > Seriously, if you you have a computer that 10 years old or younger, a > respectable amount of RAM, at least try VMs. It will change the whole way > you think about servers, services, etc. It is life altering. I was > skeptical, at first, but I've had years to get used to it, it really is > amazing. > > I've really changed my mindset. I can't imagine exposing an IP that > *ISN'T* a VM. I can't imaging developing a non-trivial software project > without a well defined VM.
I have different needs at home and at work. At work, I provide VMs for devs and small projects. It's appropriate and satisfactory. Large projects don't use VMs because we have really good forecasting of needs. At home, I don't need migration. I don't need individual backup of services when I've got the whole machine backing up. I like having good security boundaries but VMs aren't the only way to achieve that. I will give up on some goals rather than run software from hinky sources. -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
