From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Mar 11 13:35: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.201.55.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1A6B37B718 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 13:35:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jwgray@netbox.com) Received: from localhost (jwgray@localhost) by adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA96326; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 13:32:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jwgray@netbox.com) X-Authentication-Warning: adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net: jwgray owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 13:32:22 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Gray X-Sender: jwgray@adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Cc: Jeff Gray Subject: co-location model Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In thinking about the co-location model of many machines, whether 1U or bigger, one realizes that lots of space, lots of energy [I am writing from California], lots of iron and other materials are inefficiently consumed. Let alone late night trips to the server farm. Instead of co-location with lots of physical servers if someone were to setup a mainframe that provided, -multiple OS configurations and alternatives -centralized hardware management -centralized security management on the mainframe -flexible, reliable, scalable storage then space, energy, raw materials and I suspect major costs could be minimized. Late night trips to the server could be eliminated! My two questions. -Is this a reasonable long term model for ISPs and or server farms? -Does anyone offer this today at the scale of rack size bites of physical space? [I say mainframe only to emphasize extreme hardware and software reliability]. Interested to hear what the community thinks. Thanks jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message