On Thu Feb 28, 2008 at 16:07:22 +0000, Dr Adam J Trickett wrote:
> The current server provides (all internal except where stated):
> External SSH
> Web sites (internal dev sites and one external facing site)
> DNS/DHCP
> Email Fetchmail/Dovecot-IMAP
> NFS
That's a lot of services, so I'd say yes. It is worth splitting
them out.
> It's mostly a toy system and a learning platform
Good to know.
> Learning to use Xen[0] sounds fun and interesting, it's clearly a
> useful transferable skill, but at the same time these systems with
> six running VMs on them seems like a lot of administration.
Consider it a chance to toy around with CFEngine, Puppet, or
similar. That way you get to experiment with "remotely managing"
multiple machines whilst still keeping just one.
I own one home machine running up to eight Xen guests, and three
remote dedicated servers. Each of those is configured via CFEngine,
to make sure they have packages I want, and have configuration stuff
setup easily.
Steve
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