[YLUG] Server purchase

[Richard Clegg]

Robert Hulme wrote:
>> Oh...  you are absolutely right to question this.  My feeling is that a
>> system which the administrator understands throughly is much more likely
>> to be reliable than one with a million poorly understood and badly
>> implemented failsafes. 

> Xen might be a good option.
> 
> If you have a good server (server A) running a Xen kernel and with an
> LVM partition for your main filesystem you can tell LVM to snapshot
> the disk on A and rsync it to B... then if you need to bring the
> server up because the first has blown up it is just a case of xm
> create xmmyvm on box B.

This would quite definitely not fall into the category of things "the 
administrator understands throughly" but I shall read up on Xen.

-- 
Richard G. Clegg,
Networks & NonLinear Dynamics Group,
Dept. of Maths, Uni. of York.
http://www.richardclegg.org/