fwiw - most folks with highly elastic workloads are better off not spending money on hardware. this is something folks like rackspace, amazon and google are really good at. pay for what you need, when you need it and design your applications to take advantage of different (un)availability models. On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> wrote: > steve ulrich : > > >> i can't seem to find the old tclug classifieds. i have a v20z that's >> been churning away for the past couple of years as a LXC host. i've >> downsized a bit the past couple of weeks. >> >> - 4G of RAM >> - (1) - 140G seagate ST3146707LC >> - (1) - 70G seagate ST373207LC >> >> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19121-01/sf.v20z >> >> nice OOB management to spin up and down on demand. >> >> i'm located in southwest minneapolis. drop a line if you're interested. > > So I don't have much money to spend on hardware, but > have been avoiding the idea of cobbling together a > number of machines to form a server farm. Currently my > server is an 8 GB, quad core HP desktop. Sadly that's > more than enough at this time. (I know that the situation > on the ground can change rapidly, and am hopeful for > such a change.) Generally, my strategy is to use efficient > tools ... I ported a utility program recently from Python to > C++ ... I've spent a lot of time making the distribution parts > of the software efficient > http://webEbenezer.net/build_integration.html ... and I'm > working on moving from using ssh to IPsec because I believe > it will scale better and be more efficient. So most of what I've > done has been designed toward making it possible to support > a lot of users with relatively cheap hardware. (Being an > entreprenuer isn't as glamorous as they make it look on TV.) > Just having one server is much nicer than having a bunch of > them, especially for someone like me who isn't a sys admin guru. > What do you think about the one server strategy? Does the > "beggars can't be choosers" maxim mean I should be building > a farm and biting the administrations bullets? Tia. > > -- > Brian > Ebenezer Enterprises - All the world is just a narrow bridge; > the most important thing is not to be afraid. Rebbe Nachman > http://webEbenezer.net > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- steve ulrich (sulrich at botwerks.*)