Sunday, October 25th, 2009
I'm not going to explain in depth how virtualisation can reduce downtimes in general, or what you need to achieve that. But from todays practical experience, I'd like to give one example.
Let's say you are running FreeBSD on a server, and you need to do a major upgrade (that is ...
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Sunday, October 11th, 2009
To cut a long story short:
massive speed improvement
excellent for work with many small files (compile times for big projects reduced significantly, to give one example)
good value for money (~ £125)
And now the down-sides:
getting very hot
I have been using it for 4 months, until it died today. I'm almost sure that ...
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