Have you even used MS software lately? If anything I'd say their quality has gone up. Server 2003 is really nice and 2008 is even better, it's no Linux but it's still a good OS.
If this was such a great idea somebody would have done it already. I actually work for a hosting company and we have rennovated a few buildings into data centers but it isn't easy. You need to install power systems, cooling, and have bandwidth available.
Spreading the servers out isn't going to help that much, you need to have air moving in order to remove the excess heat and bring cool air in. Seriously, servers generate tons of heat, literally. We have 10 tons of AC for just one section of our data center.
There's also the issue with having employees available to run the place, nobody is going to want to move to the middle of nowhere to work at a data center.
Also, if you look at the costs it's not that much more to build a brand new building versus remodeling an existing one.
Your mouse issues can be fixed by setting the VM to use USB tablet emulation instead of mouse. This is documented on the mailing list if you run a search.
Put this in your config file.
ne2000 = 1 usb = 1 usbdevice = 'tablet'
Using an ISO is easy as well.
For example, here's my config for using the Longhorn beta iso.
disk = [ 'file:/xen/images/longhorntest.img,ioemu:hda,w', 'file:/xen/wsl_6001.16510.070417-1740_x86fre_serve r-KB3SFRE_EN_DVD.iso,hdc:cdrom,r' ]
I agree that the GUI management tools aren't the greatest, it's a lot easier to just use the command line. Real server admins don't need GUIs any way.
Apache-SSL does just this. It would be nice if they released an update based on Apache 2 though. It's also pretty easy to make your site use SSL for everything in.htaccess.
The down side of using SSL for everything is that it increases your CPU load, you could get an SSL offload engine to help with that.
Captchas are annoying, but systems like Kittenauth are easy for humans to answer while defeating bots. If you have the user perform a task like "Click two pictures of kittens" it's very difficult for a bot to do this.
Personally I just keep it simple on my site, I have a box that says "Please type 'I am a human.'" into the box below. If that input field is empty or doesn't match then you know it was submitted by a bot.
SELinux is a huge pain in the ass and most apps don't support it. I know that Cpanel doesn't work with it which is pretty much the industry standard for web hosting control panels. I've even got our kickstart server configured to boot every new server with selinux=0, we simply don't have time to screw around with it trying to make things work.
The traditional unix security model is fine, it's worked for over 40 years, why change it now? People that need more restrictions are free to install selinux, grsec, openwall, or anything else that they want, we don't need SELinux shoved down our throats by Redhat or any other vendor.
Am I the only one that's tired of having their life inconvenienced for everybody's else's children? It's not my fault you're too lazy to watch what your kids are buying/playing. Why is the New York legislature even wasting time on this?
Stop spreading FUD. With.net there is a central location for libraries and you can have multiple versions installed at the same time. The run-time compiler will automatically use the version that it needs.
It's only dangerous if you drive like a moron. Every toll I've been through has you slow down, even for the EZ Pass lanes. The other lanes you just slow down and wait in line.
I'd say welcome to the information age. The internet has changed the rules, a video can be globally distributed all over the world within a few hours. It might be distasteful for people to post it but it's not any worse that what the news on tv would show.
As somebody that actually has experience setting up and running virtualized systems (I work for a web hosting company) let me add my two cents here.
OpenVZ is ok if all of your child environments run the same OS and you don't care about them stealing each other's resources. We constantly have problems with customers overloading their VPS and causing problems with the other environments, this doesn't happen with Xen. I've fork bombed child environments and caused the load to spike to over 700 until it crashed, dom0 and the rest of my domUs just kept running like nothing was even happening.
OpenVZ also wins if you want to oversell hardware, Xen doesn't have "burstable" memory like OpenVZ does. Personally I prefer Xen for the jailing that it does and you can also run multiple OSes at the same time. I have a server at work that's running CentOS, Windows 2003, Windows Longhorn, and Gentoo all at the same time, OpenVZ only lets you run Linux on Linux.
You already can encrypt regular phone calls, you just need an STU at each end. We used them in the Army so I'm sure the government has some type of backdoor key.
Do you work where I do? We're about to do the same thing but our management is smart enough to realize that multiple screens really helps. With two monitors I can keep an eye on our monitoring systems with one and work on the other, it makes keeping track of what's going on MUCH easier.
There's a reason stock traders have so many screens....
There's lots of hosting providers and I actually work for one. We provide managed servers, unmanaged servers, VPS, and colo services, send me a message if you need more details.
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Hmm, so this means we have a free week to use these exploits.
Have you even used MS software lately? If anything I'd say their quality has gone up. Server 2003 is really nice and 2008 is even better, it's no Linux but it's still a good OS.
If this was such a great idea somebody would have done it already. I actually work for a hosting company and we have rennovated a few buildings into data centers but it isn't easy. You need to install power systems, cooling, and have bandwidth available.
Spreading the servers out isn't going to help that much, you need to have air moving in order to remove the excess heat and bring cool air in. Seriously, servers generate tons of heat, literally. We have 10 tons of AC for just one section of our data center.
There's also the issue with having employees available to run the place, nobody is going to want to move to the middle of nowhere to work at a data center.
Also, if you look at the costs it's not that much more to build a brand new building versus remodeling an existing one.
Your mouse issues can be fixed by setting the VM to use USB tablet emulation instead of mouse. This is documented on the mailing list if you run a search.
e r-KB3SFRE_EN_DVD.iso,hdc:cdrom,r' ]
Put this in your config file.
ne2000 = 1
usb = 1
usbdevice = 'tablet'
Using an ISO is easy as well.
For example, here's my config for using the Longhorn beta iso.
disk = [ 'file:/xen/images/longhorntest.img,ioemu:hda,w', 'file:/xen/wsl_6001.16510.070417-1740_x86fre_serv
I agree that the GUI management tools aren't the greatest, it's a lot easier to just use the command line. Real server admins don't need GUIs any way.
Then sell it unlicensed. Tengen did it back in the NES days and it's perfectly legal.
If you want a picture of what that looks like, have a walk through the Brazilian favelas.
Or Detroit.
That's also a good way to avoid taxes. Since revenue isn't taxed they can just roll the money back into the company and claim it as an "expense".
You'd have to add a non-ssl virtual host and then set up .htaccess to redirect.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !443 [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L,QSA]
Apache-SSL does just this. It would be nice if they released an update based on Apache 2 though. It's also pretty easy to make your site use SSL for everything in .htaccess.
The down side of using SSL for everything is that it increases your CPU load, you could get an SSL offload engine to help with that.
Captchas are annoying, but systems like Kittenauth are easy for humans to answer while defeating bots. If you have the user perform a task like "Click two pictures of kittens" it's very difficult for a bot to do this.
Personally I just keep it simple on my site, I have a box that says "Please type 'I am a human.'" into the box below. If that input field is empty or doesn't match then you know it was submitted by a bot.
SELinux is a huge pain in the ass and most apps don't support it. I know that Cpanel doesn't work with it which is pretty much the industry standard for web hosting control panels. I've even got our kickstart server configured to boot every new server with selinux=0, we simply don't have time to screw around with it trying to make things work.
The traditional unix security model is fine, it's worked for over 40 years, why change it now? People that need more restrictions are free to install selinux, grsec, openwall, or anything else that they want, we don't need SELinux shoved down our throats by Redhat or any other vendor.
I'd probably forget the password after a few days in jail. What are they gonna do? The "I can't remember" defense always works for politicians.
Am I the only one that's tired of having their life inconvenienced for everybody's else's children? It's not my fault you're too lazy to watch what your kids are buying/playing. Why is the New York legislature even wasting time on this?
Stop spreading FUD. With .net there is a central location for libraries and you can have multiple versions installed at the same time. The run-time compiler will automatically use the version that it needs.
Not just European cars, any diesel vehicle would just leak without catching on fire.
It's only dangerous if you drive like a moron. Every toll I've been through has you slow down, even for the EZ Pass lanes. The other lanes you just slow down and wait in line.
I'd say welcome to the information age. The internet has changed the rules, a video can be globally distributed all over the world within a few hours. It might be distasteful for people to post it but it's not any worse that what the news on tv would show.
Looks legit to me. It came from somebody's laptop on an Earthlink connection in Atlanta.
Received: from [65.37.133.42] (helo=NewLaptop.eathlink.net)
by elasmtp-curtail.atl.sa.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256)
If they treat you like this now just imagine what it's like to actually work there.
As somebody that actually has experience setting up and running virtualized systems (I work for a web hosting company) let me add my two cents here.
OpenVZ is ok if all of your child environments run the same OS and you don't care about them stealing each other's resources. We constantly have problems with customers overloading their VPS and causing problems with the other environments, this doesn't happen with Xen. I've fork bombed child environments and caused the load to spike to over 700 until it crashed, dom0 and the rest of my domUs just kept running like nothing was even happening.
OpenVZ also wins if you want to oversell hardware, Xen doesn't have "burstable" memory like OpenVZ does. Personally I prefer Xen for the jailing that it does and you can also run multiple OSes at the same time. I have a server at work that's running CentOS, Windows 2003, Windows Longhorn, and Gentoo all at the same time, OpenVZ only lets you run Linux on Linux.
You already can encrypt regular phone calls, you just need an STU at each end. We used them in the Army so I'm sure the government has some type of backdoor key.
No big loss, we still have a bunch of other IM systems to use.
Do you work where I do? We're about to do the same thing but our management is smart enough to realize that multiple screens really helps. With two monitors I can keep an eye on our monitoring systems with one and work on the other, it makes keeping track of what's going on MUCH easier.
There's a reason stock traders have so many screens....
There's lots of hosting providers and I actually work for one. We provide managed servers, unmanaged servers, VPS, and colo services, send me a message if you need more details.
Add CARP and you'll never even lose a packet if one of the systems dies.