On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Frank Cox <theatre at melvilletheatre.com> wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2012 00:31:22 +0300 > Jussi Hirvi wrote: > >> BTW, the two servers are virtual machines in one and the same physical box. > > What's the point of that? (Genuine question.) > > One server here, one across town, or even two separate boxes in a single room > -- sure. But in the same box? If the the box is on fire, now you're out both > your main and your backup server. > > I must be missing something; what is it? I've never been a fan of doing that, but I've recently been seeing it at a lot of clients. They have 2 older machines each running its own app. They get a new honking big box with enough HP to run both apps and they create 2 VMs one for each app.