Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Another OpenACS hosting option

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17: Re: Another OpenACS hosting option (response to 1)
Posted by Nagita Karunaratne on 02/07/04 10:55 PM
Thanks,

For all the searching i've done here, these are new for me.

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18: Re: Another OpenACS hosting option (response to 17)
Posted by Mark Aufflick on 02/08/04 04:52 AM
FWIW, I have a windows server behind a firewall running multiple severs with VMWare. It's horribly inefficient compared to Vserver, but it's damn convenient to admin.

Like if I want to replace the raid array or upgade to a new box I just shut down all the servers, copy the virtual disk files to another box with VMWare, and click start - all done :)

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19: Re: Another OpenACS hosting option (response to 18)
Posted by Cathy Sarisky on 02/08/04 05:51 AM
Actually, Matt, you can do that with vservers too.  Rsync while live, shut down the vserver, rsync again (just to be safe), start it up on the new vserver.

I *really* like vservers for development space and testing.  The isolation is very cool, and the ability to blow away a vserver and replace it with a new one from the template is handy.

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20: Re: Another OpenACS hosting option (response to 19)
Posted by Mark Aufflick on 02/09/04 06:27 AM
even if the other server has completely different hardware (# processors etc.) can you do that?
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21: Re: Another OpenACS hosting option (response to 20)
Posted by Cathy Sarisky on 02/09/04 07:30 AM
Sure can.

Of course, you need a vserver-enabled kernel to do it, but I've moved vservers between P4's, Athlon XPs, Durons, Celerons (ugh), etc.