[nylug-talk] Age old question, an acceptable Linux web hosting service.

[David Rosenstrauch]

H. G. wrote:
> On 5/16/07, Ajai Khattri <ajai at bitblit.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, 1 May 2007, Seth Rothenberg wrote:
>>
>>> Not everything works under a linode UML.
>>> I can't recall at the moment whether I saw this issue
>>> this with gd lib (not likely) or with "debian workaround" for
>>> courier etc.
>> What was the exact issue?
> 
> 
> UML in my experience had _FAR_ less stability than something like say, Xen.
> I ran into user-mode kernel crashes often.  Not glamorous.  At all.
> I tremble at the thought of trying use UML for production purposes.

Really?  Do you recall what you were crashing on?

Reason I ask is because I ran an all-in-one server (SMTP, POP3, HTTP, 
sshd, etc.) on UML for several years and never had a single crash.

DR