From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 12 17:42: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from 1nova.com (heorot.1nova.com [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4685837B405 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 17:42:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1BE7418F8; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 18:42:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by 1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A5B718F7; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 18:42:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 18:42:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: Darren Henderson Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mystery technologies? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > It offers "A collocated FreeBSD 4.5 server, with one IP, and 2 gigabytes > of disk space" for $65 with 40Gb of transfer per month, tripple homed etc. > > Sounds nice but... "Our steep discounts are made possible by technology > that allows us to segment mainframe class servers into multiple, > independent servers - each on a completely autonomous system." I don't > believe I have heard of anyone porting FreeBSD to any big iron, perhaps > some old Alpha mainframes? But I haven't heard of folks running multiple > instances of the system on one box... We've got 16 HP Superdomes around here that do that. You can segment the operating system into virtual computers. The really cool thing is that you can dynamically assign CPU and memory to one paticular "computer," as needed. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message