Hello Nick,

On 22 Aug 14 02:43, Nick Andre wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 NB>> I haven't. How much did you drop for that?

 NA> Only $500 :) Bought it off lease from a guy that advertises on Kijiji
 NA> all the time up here. Talked him into free delivery and a warranty too
 NA> 8)

What exactly is Kijiji up there? I tried kijiji.com and I ended up on Ebay
classifieds. :(

Shit man, if you can find another deal like that, hook a brother up! :)

 NA> One VM is a domain controller, so okay no big deal, no big specs are
 NA> needed. But the second is a terminal server, serving up at least a
 NA> dozen connections at any given time... so it gets 16 gb of RAM. The
 NA> third is an SQL server and SMB share, so I give it a lot of memory for
 NA> caching.  The fourth VM is a customer SMTP server, again not big on
 NA> specs but the more memory the better it runs.

 NA> It could theoretically run more VM's, but I don't want to spread out
 NA> the CPU resources too thin... the other server at work is a Dell D620
 NA> with some pretty good specs on it that runs the remainder of my stuff.

 NA> Keeping in mind that I went from over a dozen physical servers to now
 NA> just four... it did take quite a bit of fine-tuning in Vmware to make
 NA> everything run the way I want but it was well worth it.

I see what you're saying. I was more or less referencing BBS related stuff
though. You don't need more than a gig of ram for each VM if it's that
low-tech. :)

But if you're offering up VMs to others for hosting purposes, yeah you
definitely want to give them performance.. Do you make money off that shit?

Regards,
Nick

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