Sounds great. you think the performance will be as good (or better) as current performance on fyodor?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Just curious. >> What does a VPS mean. >> Does this mean that suppose I have 10 websites I can host them on this >> server? Also what is the disk space and monthly GB limit. >> Some people I know may be willing. >> > > VPS is Virtual Private Server. Also called VDS (Dedicated) or various > other names. No, it's not just that you can host 10 websites on this > server--you can already do that with your HCoop shell account. What it > means is that we have one big server running a Hypervisor (Xen, in this > case) which allows us to install several operating systems in "virtual > servers." To each one it looks like it is a self-contained machine. You > get root access and are totally responsible for administering it, just as > if it were a dedicated server. If other servers are not utilizing the CPU > or disk, then your server gets near-native CPU/disk performance, but you > are guaranteed some minimum chunk of CPU time. > > I was thinking of installing 8 servers, with 256 M of RAM and 350MHz > dedicated to each. Disk space is undetermined but I think I'm going with > 73G drives, which would be about 9 gig of disk space per person. Monthly > GB limit is totally undetermined as yet, since we have 5Mbits at 95 > percentile for our whole cabinet, but it would at least be in the 10s of > gigabytes, if we bill based on total transfer. If these specs weren't > enough you could buy more thank one "chunk" of the servers for a more > powerful VPS. > > HOWEVER, I'm not going to open this up until the rest of our base system > is installed and running for users to move into at Peer1. I don't want to > distract from the attention and substantial admin work that is going into > that. Once we're up and running at Peer1 I can set up VPS on my new > machine if there is enough interest in short order, either temporarily as > my own colo machine that I "resell" as VPS to members, or as an official > HCoop box that I am the primary admin for. > > -ntk > > > _______________________________________________ > HCoop-Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-discuss > _______________________________________________ HCoop-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-discuss
