a bunch of things!

[alexr_rwx]

- The internets are now up and tubin' at our place, after like two months! Thank you, Corey yourusername, for letting the install dude into the house.

- Mung bean sprouts are roughly the most delicious thing in the whole world. Also, the farmer's market is roughly the most delicious place to shop in the whole world.

- hackmode will be up Pretty Soon. Brett zip4096 was like "what about virtualized hosting"? And I really like that idea, and it's a lot less expensive than colocation. Plus Xen rocks really hard.

- Talk Like A Pirate Day seems to have lost some momentum, questionmark? Discuss.

Comments

[laurapatt.livejournal.com]

*imagines a series of clear plastic tubes running all over the house with words and pictures flowing through them*

http://www.veg-world.com/recipes/mung-bean.htm

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Including words that describe how to build a mung-bean-casserole!

Thank you :)

from the wikipedias...

[samarin.livejournal.com]

QEMU (the Quick Emulator) can act as both an emulator, or with the relevant kernel driver, a virtualizer. In virtualization mode it can run unmodified Operating Systems (including Windows) at similar speed to VMWare. Xen uses QEMU for emulation of legacy drivers and to support the QCOW virtual hard disk format.

I guess that answers our question. :)

Re: from the wikipedias...

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

It's true! And sometimes the OS is either already-ready for being run virtualized, or somebody's modified it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paravirtualization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation

[gtv42.livejournal.com]

I think the novelty factor of TLaPD has simply worn off. Either that, or it has opened the door for the usage of pirate talk every day of the year, thus reducing its potency.

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

So you're not subscribing to the theory that TLaPD is being subtly undermined by ninja partisans?

[gtv42.livejournal.com]

If there were ninjas involved and they were being subtle, it would never occur to us to formulate that theory.

The very fact that you and I are still alive after having read those words is cause enough to dismiss the claim.

[praetorian42.livejournal.com]

I don't understand what you just said.


"what about virtualized hosting"? And I really like that idea, and it's a lot less expensive than colocation.

Is it an either/or proposition? You can virtualize in a colo environment. You just have to pay the extra $1 a month (or thereabouts) for an IP for each VM.

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

Well, we could say "here's our server, please host it!" and pay a lot for that.

Instead of that, though, we could rent out a Xen'd server for more like $30 or $50! One such company that does this is here:

http://www.gplhost.com/hosting-vps.html

(and you still get root!)

[praetorian42.livejournal.com]

Doesn't that defeat the purpose of having our own machine, though? I already have such a setup and it is nothing special. In my mind, virtualized hosting is barely a step up from straight-up shared hosting.

I was really looking forward to unshared bandwidth. At SiteSouth we'd get 1 mbps shared amongst only the 5-10ish people using hackmode. With a regular virtualized server you'd be sharing with 50ish people. On my existing setup I rarely get 10% of the machine's total RAM, CPU power or bandwidth- which really hurts when I need it (which is incredibly rare for myself and, I'd imagine, anybody else using it. Therefore, when you needed it, you could get nearly 100% without anybody complaining).

So, which would you rather have, 3% of a machine for $30 or 20% of a machine for $50 (if that)?

Plus, I'd be willing to foot a larger-than-average portion of the bill considering some possible future projects. How many people are interested? 2U at SiteSouth is only $164/month. Divided by 5 and that's equivalent to the cheapest VPS you could find. I see no reason to avoid this choice.