From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Mar 11 13:40:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from anaconda.acceleratedweb.net (anaconda.acceleratedweb.net [209.51.164.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0DB1537B718 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 13:40:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from simon@optinet.com) Received: (qmail 93927 invoked by uid 106); 11 Mar 2001 21:50:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sharky) (66.65.36.21) by anaconda.acceleratedweb.net with SMTP; 11 Mar 2001 21:50:32 -0000 From: "Simon" To: "freebsd-isp@freebsd.org" , "Jeff Gray" Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 16:44:31 -0500 Reply-To: "Simon" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: co-location model Message-Id: <20010311214033.0DB1537B718@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Can you setup a mainframe to run multiple instances of FreeBSD? i really doubt it... and what if that single mainframe fails instead of few standalone servers? i'd probably stay away from something like that. -Simon On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 13:32:22 -0800 (PST), Jeff Gray wrote: >In thinking about the co-location model of many machines, whether 1U or >bigger, one realizes that lots of space, lots of energy [I am writing from >California], lots of iron and other materials are inefficiently consumed. >Let alone late night trips to the server farm. > >Instead of co-location with lots of physical servers if someone were to setup >a mainframe that provided, > -multiple OS configurations and alternatives > -centralized hardware management > -centralized security management on the mainframe > -flexible, reliable, scalable storage > >then space, energy, raw materials and I suspect major costs could be >minimized. Late night trips to the server could be eliminated! > >My two questions. >-Is this a reasonable long term model for ISPs and or server farms? > >-Does anyone offer this today at the scale of rack size bites of >physical space? > > >[I say mainframe only to emphasize extreme hardware and software >reliability]. > >Interested to hear what the community thinks. > >Thanks >jeff > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message