Re: A niche for the Hurd - next step: reality check

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Am Mittwoch 29 Oktober 2008 12:16:58 schrieb olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net:
> > - All-in-one out-of-the-box distro running a webserver for crash-proof
> > operation.
>
> I don't really see any advantages the Hurd would offer for ordinary
> software appliances compared to other systems. The whole point of the
> Hurd is giving more power to the users, and software appliances are
> precisely about needing as little intervention as possible...
>
> However, I dwelt on an interesting variation above: For *virtual*
> appliances the Hurd might be interesting -- using hurdish
> subenvironments instead of full virtualisation, they could be more
> efficient and convenient.

Maybe it could have an advantage by running several different unpriviledged 
webservers, where users can also test somewhat insecure technology without 
endangering the whole system -> lightweight virtualization. 

For example using one subenvironment per site. 

On the long run (via improved resource management) this could offer the 
distinct advantage that overloading one site won't bother the others too much. 

For example my sites MySQL accesses once overloaded my providers server (I had 
too long logging enabled and got a traffic spike). They transfered my site to 
a different server to keep the other sites in operation (and wrecked my 
database in that process - I had to painfully recover one of the sites via 
archive.org...). 

On a box with advanced resource management, this wouldn't have affected the 
other sites too much. 

There it might even be possible to add free accounts with unguaranteed service 
(when other sites need the power, the free sites get slowed down 
automatically). 

Best wishes, 
Arne

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