[nylug-talk] Mail servers on dynamic IP addresses soon to be shunned nearly everywhere.

[Michael B Allen]

On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 09:41:36 -0500
Sunny Dubey <sunny at opencurve.org> wrote:

> On Saturday 03 February 2007 22:09, Michael B Allen wrote:
> > On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 18:42:29 -0500
> >
> 
> > o Choose your distro. Linode has about a dozen or so UML images to
> >   choose from.
> >
> 
> Many of which are out-dated and remote root exploitable by default.  They're 
> offering FC2, but FC6 is most recent.

True. Those old images should just be removed. I don't know why anyone
would choose one of those anyway. They have the latest RH (err CentOS
4 I mean).

> > o Can't load kernel modules.
> >
> 
> That is a limitation of UML, and not Xen.

Linode is moving to Xen actually but I'm curious to know what module
you would want to load on a headless stand-alone server.

> today's virtualization technologies are great at splitting up CPU/RAM 
> resources, they suck splitting up IO resources.  When you have 8 different 
> guests on a single machine hitting the damn swap because their emerges have 
> too many retard flags, things beeccoommmeeee rrreeeaaalll sllloowwww.  And 

I've never seen my linode become slow at all really (unless it was a network
problem). It's not *really* fast but it's very consistently fast enough.

Mike