On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org> wrote:

Hi,

This is interesting to me, because I have been looking to replace some of my hosted VM infrastructure with low power devices such as the ones discussed in this thread. They would make ideal static webservers, recursive dns servers for our offices, development and staging environments, and some of our internal apps. �The Soekris units have a reseller channel who bundle the boards with power supplies and a 1U case.

My motivation ? �Each VM costs me 20W of power. �One of the Soekris units runs in 10W.

If you want low power VMs, why not go Atom with Xen/PV or OpenVZ?� Either will be fine for static web and dns.

IO is likely to be a limiting factor for dev/staging environments.� Most Soekris/Alix units I've used in the past haven't really been decent for IO.

Nicholas