Re: Redundant web servers.

2007-09-14 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On 9/14/07, Bryan Sant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't worked with Xen/OpenVZ/KVM much (yet), but VMware is > implemented with a copy-on-write memory system where two or more > virtual machines who have mostly the same memory pages, will have that > common memory mapped to the same physical

Re: Redundant web servers.

2007-09-14 Thread Scott Barlow
On 9/14/07, Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got two sites that need to have a little higher > availability/redundancy etc. > Dennis, Is purchasing more hardware an option? If so, buy more RAM and continue running what you have now. It sounds like it's working, but how much more uptime a

Re: Colocation with Veracity

2007-09-14 Thread Mike Lovell
Roberto Mello wrote: We're looking into co-location facilities around the state. One of our big-pluses-if-we-can-get-it is either a point-to-point or some connection to UTOPIA that is better than going through the public internet. This is because we need to transfer about 1 GiB/day of files to on

Re: [OT] Linux Printers

2007-09-14 Thread Jason Hall
On 9/14/07, Aaron Toponce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Linux printers is off-topic on a LUG list? :) > > Somebody noticed :) This actually came about from a lunchtime discussion at UTOSC. Joseph figured that for plug he would start adding a [OT] for *ON* topic. This thread was a way to test t

Re: [OT] Linux Printers

2007-09-14 Thread Aaron Toponce
Linux printers is off-topic on a LUG list? :) _ Aaron Toponce ( ) ASCII Ribbon Campaign www.aarontoponce.org X www.asciiribbon.org / \ Justin Gedge wrote: > many years ago- I had to purchase printers for UNIX [solaris] network. Back > th

Re: [OT] Linux Printers

2007-09-14 Thread Shane Hathaway
Justin Gedge wrote: > couple years ago- I bought the next generation in that line for home. > HP2300. It appears that HP has assimilated [or emulates] PostScript as part > of their newer PCL [Printer Control Language]. I first saw this on one of > the really cheap low end [hp1300] printers. You

Re: Redundant web servers.

2007-09-14 Thread Shane Hathaway
Dennis Muhlestein wrote: > It would be nice if the VS servers had access to the full amount of > physical memory on the machine, but only used what they needed. I > wonder if the previous suggestion of OpenVZ works that way since it is > only on one kernel. Yes, that is a definite advantage of Op

Re: [OT] Linux Printers

2007-09-14 Thread Justin Gedge
many years ago- I had to purchase printers for UNIX [solaris] network. Back then- the company I worked for kept everything PostScript. Made it feasible on the UNIX side- on the windows side it also kept everything consistent. At the time the /cheap/ printer was an HP2100TN. You paid extra for th

Re: Redundant web servers.

2007-09-14 Thread Derek Carter
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 15:00 -0600, Dennis wrote: > Hi All, > > Well, for the past few years I've had a number of servers that host > another number of websites. Some are in PHP, some are Python, there is > even some Java in there. I've never claimed to know lots about server > administration

Re: Colocation with Veracity

2007-09-14 Thread Robert Merrill
On 9/14/07, Roberto Mello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Suggestions, comments are highly welcome. No personal experience as a paying customer, but it seems NetHosting.comseems good. Nice datacenter in Orem near Golds. I remember touring their old datacenter when I was consulting, and I thought

Re: Redundant web servers.

2007-09-14 Thread Dennis Muhlestein
> I would try and see if running more VMs on your box actually takes > more physical RAM. With Xen, you allocate how much memory you want each virtual server to have. That server then gets it whether you need it or not and you can't allocate past the amount of physical memory on the machine. You

Re: Redundant web servers.

2007-09-14 Thread Bryan Sant
On 9/14/07, Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got two sites that need to have a little higher > availability/redundancy etc. I've been using Xen across 4 servers to > host our sites but there isn't enough RAM to host two copies of all the > virtual servers I've created. (Like one copy of e

RE: Colocation with Veracity

2007-09-14 Thread Hill, Greg
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Wade Preston Shearer > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 3:59 PM > To: Provo Linux Users Group Mailing List > Subject: Re: Colocation with Veracity > > > Suggestions, comments are highly welcome. > >

Re: Colocation with Veracity

2007-09-14 Thread Wade Preston Shearer
Suggestions, comments are highly welcome. TierFour in Orem http://www.tierfour.com/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Colocation with Veracity

2007-09-14 Thread Roberto Mello
We're looking into co-location facilities around the state. One of our big-pluses-if-we-can-get-it is either a point-to-point or some connection to UTOPIA that is better than going through the public internet. This is because we need to transfer about 1 GiB/day of files to one of our partners whose

Re: Redundant web servers.

2007-09-14 Thread Roberto Mello
On 9/14/07, Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to create an array of servers as described here: > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-ha/index.html Good article. Thanks for the link! > What do you guys think would be best: > > 1) Combine services (web sites) into t

Re: Redundant web servers.

2007-09-14 Thread Jonathan Duncan
On 14 Sep 2007, at 15:00, Dennis wrote: 3) Something I haven't thought of? Use a third-party hosting provider? /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Redundant web servers.

2007-09-14 Thread Dennis
Hi All, Well, for the past few years I've had a number of servers that host another number of websites. Some are in PHP, some are Python, there is even some Java in there. I've never claimed to know lots about server administration so I thought I better run this all past the list. I've got

Re: [OT] Linux Printers

2007-09-14 Thread Hans Fugal
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 at 00:15 -0600, Corey Edwards wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 22:00 -0600, Brandon Stout wrote: > > I asked the same question a few months ago. The responses at that time, > > along with my own research, led me to purchase an HP PhotoSmart C3135. > > I needed an all in one, s

Re: [OT] Linux Printers

2007-09-14 Thread Hans Fugal
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 at 22:20 -0600, Shane Hathaway wrote: > Joseph Hall wrote: > > I hate to go off topic by asking about something Linux related, but I > > need some opinions, preferably on Linux-friendly printers. Can anyone > > direct me to a good Linux-friendly printer that is currently on the