The license does not prohibit redistribution. Debian has just decided the license doesn't suit them is all. That's Debian's issue not Sun's.
For the record here are the re-distribution clauses from the 1.4.2_04JDK:
B. License to Distribute Software. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including, but not limited to the Java Technology Restrictions of these Supplemental Terms, Sun grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license without fees to reproduce and distribute the Software, provided that (i) you distribute the Software complete and unmodified (unless otherwise specified in the applicable README file) and only bundled as part of, and for the sole purpose of running, your Programs, (ii) the Programs add significant and primary functionality to the Software, (iii) you do not distribute additional software intended to replace any component(s) of the Software (unless otherwise specified in the applicable README file), (iv) you do not remove or alter any proprietary legends or notices contained in the Software, (v) you only distribute the Software subject to a license agreement that protects Sun's interests consistent with the terms contained in this Agreement, and (vi) you agree to defend and indemnify Sun and its licensors from and against any damages, costs, liabilities, settlement amounts and/or expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred in connection with any claim, lawsuit or action by any third party that arises or results from the use or distribution of any and all Programs and/or Software.
C. License to Distribute Redistributables. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including but not limited to the Java Technology Restrictions of these Supplemental Terms, Sun grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license without fees to reproduce and distribute those files specifically identified as redistributable in the Software "README" file ("Redistributables") provided that: (i) you distribute the Redistributables complete and unmodified (unless otherwise specified in the applicable README file), and only bundled as part of Programs, (ii) you do not distribute additional software intended to supersede any component(s) of the Redistributables (unless otherwise specified in the applicable README file), (iii) you do not remove or alter any proprietary legends or notices contained in or on the Redistributables, (iv) you only distribute the Redistributables pursuant to a license agreement that protects Sun's interests consistent with the terms contained in the Agreement, (v) you agree to defend and indemnify Sun and its licensors from and against any damages, costs, liabilities, settlement amounts and/or expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred in connection with any claim, lawsuit or action by any third party that arises or results from the use or distribution of any and all Programs and/or Software.
Boy, did they ever. The graphics in the Lotr and Master and commander sucked. The movies were released late. No one won any awards. And the NZ film industry is in tatters.
No wait. I mean the opposite of all that.
Weta knew up front the boxes were only of any use to them for a couple of years. They _budgeted_ on throwing them away after the Lotr trilogy was done. If they can get anything back on them now, more power to them.
Personally, I think its very cool. I'm even seeing if I can get a couple of machines from them to host some of my Lotr-fan customers on. I for one would be keen to run on an ex-Weta server.
Many, many students do this at the start of each summer break. They flood the market with $1/month hosting plans offer GB of disk space and bandwidth trying to recoup the $20/month reseller account they're running.
Then when the break is over and they're back at school suddendly they have no way to support those $1/month customers. (Who incidentally want 24/7 support regardless of what they are paying).
On the other hand, web design for companies or web coding would be a great idea. Sink your teeth into an interesting project for 6 weeks and have something to be proud of.
2.5Gbps from a single server would be pretty fun to see. Maybe get a screen capture of that 200MB unreal tournament demo downloading. But at 320MB/s it would be "d'oh missed it"
But if its just 2.5Gbps distributed to a bunch of servers, then, sorry, I just don't see that as being too impressive.
Most decent data centers will have that kind of bandwidth. If fact for about $x0,000 any joe shmoh can buy themselves a couple of gige cables and a rack of servers from a good bandwidth provider.
You want to know what will impress your customers? Just ask them: "Hey guys, what is it exactly you were looking for?".
For Java, you _may_ be able to sneak by with 64MB for a small webapp on Tomcat. You won't be able to run JBoss. Ideally you'd want 96-128MB of memory for Tomcat and 128++ for JBoss.
FWIW we have a VPS-C plan that overallocates the memory on the host server (so it swaps every now and then). Performance is good, but not as good as our main plans where we don't overallocate memory. All that means is that for the $24.95 VPS-C plan you can muck around with Java servers all you like.
Now, it may be because I've drunk the UML cool-aid, but UML servers are a great way to host. Whether is for a personal blog or a corporate website.
cf. shared hosting you have control over everything (except the kernel which is usually provided by the hosting company). It is common for people to install and reconfigure all their core services. But I've even had customers install a different distro - e.g. moving themselves from RedHat to Gentoo. Seriously.
cf. dedicated servers you usually get a much better deal. For example at $20 you're getting dedicated server functionality. Cheap dedicated servers start at around $80/month from reputable hosters. Compared to the low-end server you'd get for that, our servers are typically dual xeons with RAID and regular backups.
And UML in general is nice, stable, and - of course - Open Source.
So, back to the lead topic, for a business environment UMLs make a lot of sense. At one end they are a step up from shared hosting. They have better file security (i.e. you're not sharing a file system with 2000 other users and hoping that your hoster has secured their server properly). You can run run your own firewall. You can configure multiple domains. You can control what changes are made to your environment and when they are made. And you get better resource sharing with other users on the host server - i.e. your VPS gets an equal share of the server resources.
And at the other end - the dedicated server end - of the business hosting market VPSs still have a place. There are less hardware hassles to deal with. And usually the server is going to be better speced and perform better than a dedicated server for the same dollars.
Oh, and UML servers make perfect backup/failover boxes it you are running an uber dedicated server somewhere else. e.g. see how easy it can be to do automated rsync backups. And if you ever need to experiment with hosting your site on a 2.6 kernel, then UML is the way to go.
Wow, this topic really got me thinking. All that time I spend every day deleting spam, driking coffee, having toilet breaks. It all adds up. It's amazing I every get time do any work.
In fact, I've just figured out that if we can shut down slashdot - maybe feature it on a front page article and get it slashdotted - we could scape together enough coin to fulfill George Bush Juniors plan of putting a person on Mars.
Do the math:
800,000 Readers a day
30 Minutes a day to scan the front page and browse at level 5
$30 Per hour wage, these are _mostly_ employed geeks after all
$24,000,000,000 Annual lost time cost, assuming a 40 hour week, 50 weeks of the year.
apt for rpm allows you to plug in your own sources. The primary sources are just going to be Red Hat's RPMs. But you can plug into a few other independant repositories (like jpackage.org).
The above poster is right. People want to run Java servers on their Linux boxes.
But the fact that Debian currently has some issues with installing those automatically shouldn't hold things back. Certainly, Red Hat aren't going out of their way to support Java.
And as far as Ant goes, it's not that hard to install:
And, at least for me, Red Hat (including Fedora) is still outselling Debian by 5.3 to 1. Maybe it's because I install apt-rpm on the Red Hat boxes to make them just as easy to manage as the Debian ones:)
I once had a job counting pallets of butter. It involved (in the middle of summer) being in a warehouse kept at -5 degrees C. And clambering up 20 meter high towers of stacked cartons.
Or there was the 8 years as a youth spent milking cows. And being covered from tip to toe in cow muck for most of the day.
Maybe these early jobs were what triggered my move into computers? Now I have a comfy chair, a nice view, filter coffee on tap, a decent stereo in the office and a desktop with 1600 times more memory than Bill Gates every thought would be necessary.
Another problem with DLP is that the mirrors reflect only the light shone on them. They have no color. So DLP has 3 different colored filter wheels spinning at a rate (synchronized with the DLP chip mirrors) to create the illusion of color.
This creates the so-called 'rainbow effect'. Which some people see. And which reportedly can invoke headaches.
LCD projectors (or pricier 3 chip DLP systems) thus have some advantages.
LCoS sounds like the perfect blend of price and quality.
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This is good news. Tomcat is the reference Servlet implementation. So if it works on Tomcat it _should_ work on other servlet engines. So people that may have held off deploying or even developing Servlet 2.4/JSP 2.0 application may now start down that trail.
I saw Meet the Feebles a long time ago. I only have vague recollections. Probably an attempt by my brain to insulate it from what I sense was quite a disturbing film.
It amazing really. That a director can do movies so dissimilar to each other: Meet the Feebles, The Frightners, Heavenly Creatures, LOTR.
Well the Rugby World Cup escaped us. And that was a big blow to the country's psyche.
But every Kiwi I know derives huge pride in the work Peter Jackson has done. For creating a great triology of movies, for putting our scenery on the big screen, and generally raising the profile of this land of the long white cloud. And he seems to have somehow avoided coming down with tall poppy syndrone.
Jackson: I should've--well, it's too late to fire anyone. The damage has been done.
I'm not sure of the Raq attraction anymore. I've never owned one. But from what I read they are cheap, but underpowered.
Nowadays you can get cheap _and_ powerful dedicated servers. Linux to boot.
Control panel wise, if you want to go the Open Source route, slap something like Webmin on them with VirtualMin if you are planning on reselling the space and will have third party users needing a control panel.
Otherwise the most popular web hosting control panels are the likes of Ensim, Plesk and cPanel/WHM
If you're just after affordable dedicated server type functionality (e.g. for compiling software, running custom versions of Apache or MySQL or what have you), then you may be pleasantly surprised with what is available with Linux VPS Hosting (my own service). With the VPS you have no hardware worries. And typically the host servers are very powerful and you'll get better performance than a dedicated server a few times the price.
It is a great help for setting up programs that require a fair bit of configuration. After you're done, you can look at the config changes that Webmin made. Next time around you are a bit more empowered to make the changes via the command-line.
Unlike some control panel software, it doesn't 'take over' your server. It doesn't overwrite RPMS with its own custom versions. It doesn't make config files 'Webmin only'
The help from within Webmin itself is not so great. Often you have to have a very good understanding of the service you're configuring before Webmin will make much sense. There is little contextual help in the program.
I've found The Book of Webmin to be quite useful. Plus I've created a few of my own HOWTOs for common tasks:
I've been considering providing a domain name service. But I think its in people best interests to decouple their domain name from their hosting provider. Why?
You can probably get the domain cheaper from a domain name specialist. GoDaddy and the like.
If you need to move hosts then there is no third party (ex host) to get in the way. Even if they are a fair host, you still have issues over controlling the timing of any changes. With your own domain/DNS, you can time your switchover to the within a few minutes.
Finally, if you didn't get the domain name yourself to begin with, and if you are relying on your old webhost for the transfer, then just be persistent with them. If they treat you unfairly, tell the world or find if they are listed on a review site and provide (an accurate and fair, of course) review of what they did.
My first experience of the 'Internet' was a MUD on a 300 baud modem. It often took an hour or so of trying before I could connect to the local ISP (city council actually). And they eventually banned users in the MUDs since they were too bandwidth intensive. Can you imagine?!? 300 baud!
Anyway I happen to have a Linux Virtual Private Server kicking around with more bandwidth than I know how to use (and root access of course). And am thinking about what better use for it than hosting a MUD server.
Can anyone recommend a good MUD server? And is there such a thing as a pre-populated ready to go world?
That includes answering simple questions for potential customers. And every now and then answering 'hard' support questions which might have me googling around trying to find answers.
I spend a bit of time setting up new servers. That used to take hours per server. Now I've got a personal best of 30 minutes (and that included a fully featured kernel recompile).
Since my server setups are pretty standard and the management of them is pretty much scripted, the day to day management of a lot of servers isn't that much of a handful.
Other than the support and hardware side of things, its a bit of everything: Billing; updating the default software installs; working on the website; adding HOWTOs; finding cheaper/faster/better host servers and network connections; reading the wht forums; new customer setups; answering 4AM in the morning pages;...
This sounds like a great tool. The copied code I'm concerned about, is the code myself and other developers on the same project have copied from one file to another file.
If I can use this tool to find that code and refactor it into subroutines/classes then that would be superb.
And if someone could write a plugin for Eclipse to help automate/assist with the refactoring...
Yep. Really good points. Not to disagree with you, but...
FWIW, virtual servers have the same succeptibility to hardware failure as real servers. Any individual user run the same risk regardless. In a VPS setup its, say, 12 users affected times the risk of one server going down. Or on a user per server setup it is, say, 1 user affected times the risk of 1 of 12 servers going down (which is 12 times higher than the risk of one server going down).
At least with virtualisation it's easier, at least on UML, to move backed up UMLs to a new server and restart them (a 15 minute operation) vs. setting up a new server (takes at least a long lunch hour).
Also, more efficient (i.e. better utilisation of hardware) allows you to use more of it. So rather than going out and setting up 12 servers you can set up 1 server and a couple of mirrors and set up some failover and load balancing services. The kind of thing you can do with real servers, but for less money.
Of course with very high cost server's you've got to be tempted to rely on their reliability and not have spare servers just sitting around. It's a bit easier to swallow having spare machines when you're talking about 'regular' servers.
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The license does not prohibit redistribution. Debian has just decided the license doesn't suit them is all. That's Debian's issue not Sun's.
For the record here are the re-distribution clauses from the 1.4.2_04JDK:
Linux VPS hosting *with* Sun JVMs
Boy, did they ever. The graphics in the Lotr and Master and commander sucked. The movies were released late. No one won any awards. And the NZ film industry is in tatters.
No wait. I mean the opposite of all that.
Weta knew up front the boxes were only of any use to them for a couple of years. They _budgeted_ on throwing them away after the Lotr trilogy was done. If they can get anything back on them now, more power to them.
Personally, I think its very cool. I'm even seeing if I can get a couple of machines from them to host some of my Lotr-fan customers on. I for one would be keen to run on an ex-Weta server.
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Please don't start up a hosting company.
Many, many students do this at the start of each summer break. They flood the market with $1/month hosting plans offer GB of disk space and bandwidth trying to recoup the $20/month reseller account they're running.
Then when the break is over and they're back at school suddendly they have no way to support those $1/month customers. (Who incidentally want 24/7 support regardless of what they are paying).
On the other hand, web design for companies or web coding would be a great idea. Sink your teeth into an interesting project for 6 weeks and have something to be proud of.
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2.5Gbps from a single server would be pretty fun to see. Maybe get a screen capture of that 200MB unreal tournament demo downloading. But at 320MB/s it would be "d'oh missed it"
But if its just 2.5Gbps distributed to a bunch of servers, then, sorry, I just don't see that as being too impressive.
Most decent data centers will have that kind of bandwidth. If fact for about $x0,000 any joe shmoh can buy themselves a couple of gige cables and a rack of servers from a good bandwidth provider.
You want to know what will impress your customers? Just ask them: "Hey guys, what is it exactly you were looking for?".
Me, being in the Linux Virtual Private Server hosting business, I want to see the following:
If your customers are looking at 2.5Gbps of bandwidth for an intranet backup solution then they'll probably be impressed by other things.
For Java, you _may_ be able to sneak by with 64MB for a small webapp on Tomcat. You won't be able to run JBoss. Ideally you'd want 96-128MB of memory for Tomcat and 128++ for JBoss.
FWIW we have a VPS-C plan that overallocates the memory on the host server (so it swaps every now and then). Performance is good, but not as good as our main plans where we don't overallocate memory. All that means is that for the $24.95 VPS-C plan you can muck around with Java servers all you like.
Thanks for the reference! We also have a Fedora distro available now.
Now, it may be because I've drunk the UML cool-aid, but UML servers are a great way to host. Whether is for a personal blog or a corporate website.
cf. shared hosting you have control over everything (except the kernel which is usually provided by the hosting company). It is common for people to install and reconfigure all their core services. But I've even had customers install a different distro - e.g. moving themselves from RedHat to Gentoo. Seriously.
cf. dedicated servers you usually get a much better deal. For example at $20 you're getting dedicated server functionality. Cheap dedicated servers start at around $80/month from reputable hosters. Compared to the low-end server you'd get for that, our servers are typically dual xeons with RAID and regular backups.
And UML in general is nice, stable, and - of course - Open Source.
So, back to the lead topic, for a business environment UMLs make a lot of sense. At one end they are a step up from shared hosting. They have better file security (i.e. you're not sharing a file system with 2000 other users and hoping that your hoster has secured their server properly). You can run run your own firewall. You can configure multiple domains. You can control what changes are made to your environment and when they are made. And you get better resource sharing with other users on the host server - i.e. your VPS gets an equal share of the server resources.
And at the other end - the dedicated server end - of the business hosting market VPSs still have a place. There are less hardware hassles to deal with. And usually the server is going to be better speced and perform better than a dedicated server for the same dollars.
Oh, and UML servers make perfect backup/failover boxes it you are running an uber dedicated server somewhere else. e.g. see how easy it can be to do automated rsync backups. And if you ever need to experiment with hosting your site on a 2.6 kernel, then UML is the way to go.
And just so that this post doesn't appear too self-serving :), you can see a list of UML hosting providers over on the Jeff Dike's UML site here: http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/uses.html
Um. Most bulbs have lives of ~3000 hours. You're turning off the projector when you're not using it, right?
Wow, this topic really got me thinking. All that time I spend every day deleting spam, driking coffee, having toilet breaks. It all adds up. It's amazing I every get time do any work.
In fact, I've just figured out that if we can shut down slashdot - maybe feature it on a front page article and get it slashdotted - we could scape together enough coin to fulfill George Bush Juniors plan of putting a person on Mars.
Do the math:
800,000 Readers a day
30 Minutes a day to scan the front page and browse at level 5
$30 Per hour wage, these are _mostly_ employed geeks after all
$24,000,000,000 Annual lost time cost, assuming a 40 hour week, 50 weeks of the year.
apt for rpm allows you to plug in your own sources. The primary sources are just going to be Red Hat's RPMs. But you can plug into a few other independant repositories (like jpackage.org).
The above poster is right. People want to run Java servers on their Linux boxes.
But the fact that Debian currently has some issues with installing those automatically shouldn't hold things back. Certainly, Red Hat aren't going out of their way to support Java.
And as far as Ant goes, it's not that hard to install:
antversion=1.6.0{
cd
wget -O - "http://apache.inspire.net.nz/ant/binaries/apache
ln -sf
echo "export ANT_HOME=/usr/local/apache-ant
export PATH=\$PATH:/usr/local/apache-ant/bin" >
chmod +x
}
FWIW, I run Linux Virtual Private Servers with a bunch of Java hosting tools like Tomcat preinstalled on my distros.
And, at least for me, Red Hat (including Fedora) is still outselling Debian by 5.3 to 1. Maybe it's because I install apt-rpm on the Red Hat boxes to make them just as easy to manage as the Debian ones :)
As you probably know there are a ton of languages that will compile down to Java bytecode and run on any JVM (e.g. jpython).
So why don't you just grab an OpenSource Java compiler and add a --case-insensitive compile switch?
You could then code merrily in whatever case your caps lock key happened to be set in, and it would run on anybody's JVM.
Or just suck it up and get used to case sensitive programming like the rest of 3 million Java developers
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I once had a job counting pallets of butter. It involved (in the middle of summer) being in a warehouse kept at -5 degrees C. And clambering up 20 meter high towers of stacked cartons.
Or there was the 8 years as a youth spent milking cows. And being covered from tip to toe in cow muck for most of the day.
Maybe these early jobs were what triggered my move into computers? Now I have a comfy chair, a nice view, filter coffee on tap, a decent stereo in the office and a desktop with 1600 times more memory than Bill Gates every thought would be necessary.
- RimuHosting - Linux VPS Hosting
Another problem with DLP is that the mirrors reflect only the light shone on them. They have no color. So DLP has 3 different colored filter wheels spinning at a rate (synchronized with the DLP chip mirrors) to create the illusion of color.
This creates the so-called 'rainbow effect'. Which some people see. And which reportedly can invoke headaches.
LCD projectors (or pricier 3 chip DLP systems) thus have some advantages.
LCoS sounds like the perfect blend of price and quality.
But who can wait? I think I'm still going to get my Sanyo PLV-Z2 projector.
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This is good news. Tomcat is the reference Servlet implementation. So if it works on Tomcat it _should_ work on other servlet engines. So people that may have held off deploying or even developing Servlet 2.4/JSP 2.0 application may now start down that trail.
Also, let's not forget there are a couple of other great choices out there: Resin with Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0 and the alpha Jetty 5.0 the Servlet 2.4.
Linux VPS Based Java Hosting - Now with Tomcat 5 if you want it
Now in news just to hand:
Sun rises in the east.
Sheesh
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Heh, nope Rimu, as in the tree. Ree-myu.
I saw Meet the Feebles a long time ago. I only have vague recollections. Probably an attempt by my brain to insulate it from what I sense was quite a disturbing film.
It amazing really. That a director can do movies so dissimilar to each other: Meet the Feebles, The Frightners, Heavenly Creatures, LOTR.
Well the Rugby World Cup escaped us. And that was a big blow to the country's psyche.
But every Kiwi I know derives huge pride in the work Peter Jackson has done. For creating a great triology of movies, for putting our scenery on the big screen, and generally raising the profile of this land of the long white cloud. And he seems to have somehow avoided coming down with tall poppy syndrone.
I'm still laughing...
Cheers, mate.
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I'm not sure of the Raq attraction anymore. I've never owned one. But from what I read they are cheap, but underpowered.
Nowadays you can get cheap _and_ powerful dedicated servers. Linux to boot.
Control panel wise, if you want to go the Open Source route, slap something like Webmin on them with VirtualMin if you are planning on reselling the space and will have third party users needing a control panel.
Otherwise the most popular web hosting control panels are the likes of Ensim, Plesk and cPanel/WHM
If you're just after affordable dedicated server type functionality (e.g. for compiling software, running custom versions of Apache or MySQL or what have you), then you may be pleasantly surprised with what is available with Linux VPS Hosting (my own service). With the VPS you have no hardware worries. And typically the host servers are very powerful and you'll get better performance than a dedicated server a few times the price.
I pre-install Webmin on our Linux Virtual Private Servers. I think its a great tool.
It is a great help for setting up programs that require a fair bit of configuration. After you're done, you can look at the config changes that Webmin made. Next time around you are a bit more empowered to make the changes via the command-line.
Unlike some control panel software, it doesn't 'take over' your server. It doesn't overwrite RPMS with its own custom versions. It doesn't make config files 'Webmin only'
The help from within Webmin itself is not so great. Often you have to have a very good understanding of the service you're configuring before Webmin will make much sense. There is little contextual help in the program.
I've found The Book of Webmin to be quite useful. Plus I've created a few of my own HOWTOs for common tasks:
I run a Linux Virtual Private Server Hosting company.
I've been considering providing a domain name service. But I think its in people best interests to decouple their domain name from their hosting provider. Why?
You can probably get the domain cheaper from a domain name specialist. GoDaddy and the like.
Places like ZoneEdit offer an unbeatable, easy to use, reliable and free DNS service. Or you can just to it yourself on your VPS. You have root right?
If you need to move hosts then there is no third party (ex host) to get in the way. Even if they are a fair host, you still have issues over controlling the timing of any changes. With your own domain/DNS, you can time your switchover to the within a few minutes.
Finally, if you didn't get the domain name yourself to begin with, and if you are relying on your old webhost for the transfer, then just be persistent with them. If they treat you unfairly, tell the world or find if they are listed on a review site and provide (an accurate and fair, of course) review of what they did.
FWIW, if you're building TinyFugue on RH8/9, you'll get a compile error inside the openssl code. Just bung #define OPENSSL_NO_KRB5 1 into src/config.h
-P
MUD Server Hosting Anyone?
My first experience of the 'Internet' was a MUD on a 300 baud modem. It often took an hour or so of trying before I could connect to the local ISP (city council actually). And they eventually banned users in the MUDs since they were too bandwidth intensive. Can you imagine?!? 300 baud!
Anyway I happen to have a Linux Virtual Private Server kicking around with more bandwidth than I know how to use (and root access of course). And am thinking about what better use for it than hosting a MUD server.
Can anyone recommend a good MUD server? And is there such a thing as a pre-populated ready to go world?
I run a Virtual Private Server hosting company. I'd say my most of my time was spent dealing with people.
That includes answering simple questions for potential customers. And every now and then answering 'hard' support questions which might have me googling around trying to find answers.
I spend a bit of time setting up new servers. That used to take hours per server. Now I've got a personal best of 30 minutes (and that included a fully featured kernel recompile).
Since my server setups are pretty standard and the management of them is pretty much scripted, the day to day management of a lot of servers isn't that much of a handful.
Other than the support and hardware side of things, its a bit of everything: Billing; updating the default software installs; working on the website; adding HOWTOs; finding cheaper/faster/better host servers and network connections; reading the wht forums; new customer setups; answering 4AM in the morning pages; ...
This sounds like a great tool. The copied code I'm concerned about, is the code myself and other developers on the same project have copied from one file to another file.
If I can use this tool to find that code and refactor it into subroutines/classes then that would be superb.
And if someone could write a plugin for Eclipse to help automate/assist with the refactoring...
-P
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Yep. Really good points. Not to disagree with you, but...
FWIW, virtual servers have the same succeptibility to hardware failure as real servers. Any individual user run the same risk regardless. In a VPS setup its, say, 12 users affected times the risk of one server going down. Or on a user per server setup it is, say, 1 user affected times the risk of 1 of 12 servers going down (which is 12 times higher than the risk of one server going down).
At least with virtualisation it's easier, at least on UML, to move backed up UMLs to a new server and restart them (a 15 minute operation) vs. setting up a new server (takes at least a long lunch hour).
Also, more efficient (i.e. better utilisation of hardware) allows you to use more of it. So rather than going out and setting up 12 servers you can set up 1 server and a couple of mirrors and set up some failover and load balancing services. The kind of thing you can do with real servers, but for less money.
Of course with very high cost server's you've got to be tempted to rely on their reliability and not have spare servers just sitting around. It's a bit easier to swallow having spare machines when you're talking about 'regular' servers.
-P
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