From: "Robert Comer" 

> Yes, I can see it for testing but in a production environment web host?

I was speaking more general purpose, but yes, it works for web hosts too.

>Why
> run 100 virtual servers when you could run 600 websites on the same box?

You said it yourself, you root your machine your way you root all the
websites, you root it my way, you just get one section of them and it's
really easy to fix that one "machine" without bringing the others
down.

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Bob Comer


"Geo"  wrote in message
news:437d4b99$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Yes, I can see it for testing but in a production environment web host?
> Why
> run 100 virtual servers when you could run 600 websites on the same box?
>
> Geo.
>
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:437c724d{at}w3.nls.net...
>> > Besides running virtual linux installs on an AS400, who else runs a
>> > real
>> > virtual server like that?
>>
>> You'd be extremely surprised, a **LOT** of people are doing it, I do it
>> on
>> my PC's in development, testing, backup, and backwards compatibility
>> scenarios.  A lot of larger companies are doing it on large PC servers
> that
>> have been taken on the jobs of several smaller servers.  Think of it, a
>> PC
>> that can do what 20 or so of your old servers did, yet keep everything
>> isolated from each other. (server consolidation.)
>
>
>

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