[Cialug] Xen Server Looking for a good home.

[Theron Conrey]

Thanks for the tips all, I'm going to look around town and find a home for this server..... hopefully at at reasonable price.

If it comes to $$ is there anyone willing to chip in and have a slice of this server?

Johnathan I've got you down as a maybe........

theron
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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan A. Kollasch [jakllsch at kollasch.net]
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 12:53 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Xen Server Looking for a good home.

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 09:22:01AM -0500, Theron Conrey wrote:
> Having just returned from linuxworld, my spare time burner has been firing on all cylinders.  I happen to have lying around a dual 3.6G Pentium Xeon box with 4GB of RAM and plenty of hardware RAID1 Storage wrapped up in a shiny 1U Server with 4 gig NICs.  I did a minimal Debian install last night and installed the latest 3.1 Xen, it's a screamer.
>
> My intent is to offer up Debian VMs along the lines of what the guys over at xen-hosting.org are doing, however, I'm not sure what (if anything) I should charge, and I'd rather trade rackspace/bandwidth for VM(s).

How about NetBSD domUs too?
(though you kinda have too much RAM for that)

Even in a GNU/Linux domU case, I'd be interested if the price is
reasonable.

You might look at vps-choice.tld (yeah, I'm too lazy to jfgi)
for pricing stuffs.

> Looking at what's available with the hardware I'm guessing that I'll have room for roughly 7 VMs (15GB Storage, 512M ram each) or more if I reduce the VMs Memory/Storage.

That's so big I'd want it across multiple domUs.
I have anywhere from 48MiB to 256MiB for my domUs
here at home. Storage ranges from about 1GiB to 24GiB.

>
>
> What's rackspace / bandwidth go for these days?
> Does it usually cost a ton extra for an additional dozen IPs?
> Anyone got some rackspace / ideas?
>
> -Theron

        Jonathan Kollasch