[Charlug] Web-server Farm - Networking Question

[David Simmons]

> Do you really need multiple IPs? or do you just need to host
multiple
> domains on one server?

Would like multiple
domains on one server.....but NOT through just Apache name
virtualization....I want to separate them into their own Virtual Machine
so if someone goes wrong - it won't take down the whole box....just their
VM

> If you really want multiple guests on one host with one
IP, then you'll
> need to setup apache on the host with something
like mod_proxy to
> forward to the guests

then I'd have
to setup Apache on the VM host??=A0 probably not a good idea, right?

>. you would need to set up ssh on different ports
>
and forward from the host to the guests.

understood...this is a
secondary issue....will cross that bridge when necessary
=A0
> There are several OSS control panels available for shared-hosting.
For
> Xen, there is Enomalism for Xen management. for VMware, pay
megabucks
> for VirtualCenter.

paying megabucks is
probably not gonna work...this is a small hosting operation among
friends......have been thinking about using OpenVZ - any thoughts?
=A0
> Do you only have one internet accessible IP address?
Are VM's required?
> Do the users require root access or super
special setups?

don't have just one IP address....but, like I
said above, it's a small operation - we have 5 static IPs...but need to
host about 8 different environments.....AND when one blows up - it won't
take down the whole server.....also like the idea of being able to move
live servers between hardware.

Users will probably need root
access and, like I said, we have about 8 different hosting environments we
need to host (more than we have IP space for).

Thanks in
advance........with the rise in Virtual Machines - I wouldn't think this
would be this hard....all the docs I'm finding are really old?

=A0 - dave


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