[Gllug] Market for low-cost Linux servers/networks?

[will]

Richard Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 10:34:27AM +0100, will wrote:
> 
>>Or use a few decent servers and run UML instances on them.  The clients 
>>get low powered servers and you get reliability and economy 
>>(power/space).  There seem to be a few people using UML for hosting now.
> 
> 
> I've wondered about this ... Is UML actually secure? Last time I
> looked, it mapped the (guest) kernel into user space, and it looked as
> if you could just write there, if you could work out the address. I'm
> not sure if they protected the kernel in some way ...

Dunno how secure (not looked into it much myself) but I know for certain 
a few hosting companies using it, and I can guess at a few others (64Mb 
ram, 3Gig disk dedicated server anyone?).  It's use seems to be increasing.

Will.


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