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f you I have just started to explore virtualization for an internal project. The objective is to provide an “unbounded” number of ad-hoc servers for testing and customer show-case. So, I’m going to assemble a physical server, with a 4-core 64bit CPU, 8GB RAM and 1TB of mirrored disk space (RAID1). In the mean time I’m investigating how to set up and use KVM running on Ubuntu, on one unused…

Quite often you start a new project (inhouse or at a client) and there are no proper project tools available or at least tools you consider usable, agile and do not get in your way of doing important more stuff. For large organizations, they typically will deliver your requested server resources, just after the project has completed. So what to do, when you just want to get up to speed…

Nowadays, with cheap broadband connections more and more people are hosting their own server, just for the fun of it. Which is what I’m doing and just as a hobby. If you are considering setting up one yourself, there are some remarks to point out. The first is that you should from the beginning consider two boxes, one for the server and one for the firewall. That means you can…