From: "Geo" 

If they do then you couldn't allow people to modify the configuration as if
they were really running a dedicated server. Loading web extensions like
OWA would affect all the sites in all the vm's not just that one customer.
If that's the case then there really wouldn't be much advantage to vm's for
ISP type web hosting.

Geo.

"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
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> Don't the virtual servers load from a single image (addressing Georges
> question on patching), and if you patch the one image, all the virtual
> servers are now patched?  I recall some discussion about this with Linux
and
> IBM, where they were talking about that in some advertising, where they
were
> loading tons of virtual servers on a mainframe, that security was just
patch
> the load image, and then just restart the virtual servers, and they are
then
> all patched..
>
> Would it not be the same for a Windows based virtual server?
>
> --
>
> Glenn M.

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