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Re: Hosting recommendations ... ?
From: Bryan Holloway <bryan () shout net>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:56:50 +0100
On 1/19/21 6:33 PM, Brandon Martin wrote:
On 1/19/21 11:44 AM, William Herrin wrote:
Cloud = you get virtual servers with virtual storage, generally adjustable to meet your needs. You manage the operating systems and storage within the virtual environment. You DO NOT manage the host operating systems or hypervisors.
It's worth pointing out that nested virtualization is a thing these days, and some providers might even support it! That means you could buy one large instance and sub-divide it yourself into multiple VMs if you want to.In practice, unless you need that flexibility to dynamically spin the VMs up and down with various specs AND don't want to or cannot use a provider's API for that, I'm not sure why you'd want to if you didn't have to for some crazy reason.
I'm very curious about your assertion: Is nested virtualization really a thing?I mean, I'm not exactly trying to render Pixar's latest movie ... just trying to push some bits around (light web-sites, some e-mail ...)
It just seems inherently prone to issues.Could you back this up with any white-papers or documentation on the subject? I'm genuinely interested ...
- bryan
Current thread:
- Re: Hosting recommendations ... ?, (continued)
- Re: Hosting recommendations ... ? Martijn Schmidt via NANOG (Jan 19)
- Re: Hosting recommendations ... ? Bryan Holloway (Jan 19)
- Re: Hosting recommendations ... ? Michael K. Spears (Jan 19)
- Re: Hosting recommendations ... ? Forrest Christian (List Account) (Jan 19)
- Re: Hosting recommendations ... ? Barnabas Toth via NANOG (Jan 19)
- Re: Hosting recommendations ... ? William Herrin (Jan 19)
- Re: Hosting recommendations ... ? Tom Beecher (Jan 19)
- Re: Hosting recommendations ... ? Brandon Martin (Jan 19)
- Re: Hosting recommendations ... ? Ward Vandewege (Jan 19)
- Re: Hosting recommendations ... ? Brandon Martin (Jan 19)
- Re: Hosting recommendations ... ? Bryan Holloway (Jan 19)
- Re: Hosting recommendations ... ? Brandon Martin (Jan 19)
- Re: Hosting recommendations ... ? Matt Harris (Jan 19)
- RE: Hosting recommendations ... ? Keith Medcalf (Jan 19)
- Re: Hosting recommendations ... ? Jay R. Ashworth (Jan 19)
- Re: Hosting recommendations ... ? Raymond Burkholder (Jan 19)
- Re: Hosting recommendations ... ? Michael Thomas (Jan 19)