On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 01:18, Eric Bravick wrote:
> Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> > I'm interested, but I'm more interested in why NKS is running UML
> > servers. I've been hearing this for a while, and only now realized that
> > Eric et al were talking about "user mode linux". Anyway, it's something
> > I could ask at the meeting.
> >
> > Paul
>
> I'd be happy to give Ian some real world cost/benifit analysis data for
> his presentation. We've had tremendous success here with our new
> incarnations of hosting based on standardized packaging of UML based
> systems. I can't say enough good about it! It really has changed
> everything...
>
> I'm sure Ian will get into all the technical "why would you do this."
> NKS did it not only from that technical perspective, but from a business
> one. We pretty much only do hosting for clients that want security and
> all sorts of other features associated with dedicated, firewalled
> hosting. The cost of this is high... to high for the average client.
> Simply put, UML cut our costs for 40% of our services to 1/20th of their
> previous cost... and that is only 2 months into the roll out! I'm
> expecting 90% penetration in 2 more months... Need I say more than 95%
> cost reduction across 90% of our server infrastructure?
Indeed we have seen similar results. We have been running this type of
configuration for almost a year now and wouldn't go back if someone else
paid the bill.
The scale of economy is stagering. Some aspects of logistics and
support are almost trivialized. It (Virtual Environments) are certainly
the way to go for hosting providers or possibly businesses that need to
deploy a lot of individual, low to medium activity servers on demand.
-- Todd Robinson <mtrob@penguix.com>
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