Re: [tlug] low power home server

["eredicatorx@example.com" <eredicatorx@example.com>]

On 05/11/2010 11:23 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> You have theory and practice backward here.  In practice, nothing is
> perfect.
>
> Simple is more secure.
>    
Here Here I agree 100%
> I gather you haven't read the "route via telepathy" anecdote in
> Bellovin and Cheswick.  Anyway, this is a bad idea, because there's
> really only one OS per box, in this case the virtualization host OS.
> The guest OSes are just very demanding applications, and because they
> are so demanding, I would consider this setup extremely fragile from a
> security standpoint.
>    
Not really from a security stand point, the OS's you use will only be as 
secure as you configure them to be. But more realistically from a 
reliability stand point.

A failed power supply had my home network down for 2 days. It is a home 
network so real harm done, but as a Sys Admin it is pretty much 
unacceptable. I actually got out the POS NTT router so I could get on 
the internet w/laptop or my MAC.

As far as demand goes I would disagree, but of course that would be 
subject to usage. Running 3-4 domUs that I access remotely via ssh, ftp, 
http, ect. that all have different roles, I rarely run out of processing 
power and disc space, memory however is a different. I would suggest at 
least 4gigs that way you can give each host 500-700 MBs, depending on 
the role and still have 1 gig or so for your Dom0.

E./