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Hi,

I have a question... Is it possible to run two different virtually
dedicated servers on different partions of one physical server? I'm
planning to create a new partion and create a web server for my wife
on it. Is it possible, or I have to have two different servers?

Are you speaking of disk partitions, or of virtual
machine partitions as in the mainframe world?

Quote:> I'm
> planning to create a new partion and create a web server for my wife
> on it.

Meaning, a system that will host your wife's
web server, or simply a separate disk partition
to contain your wife's web content?

Quote:> Is it possible, or I have to have two different servers?

You can run many different websites from a
single apache server - either name-based,
using the same IP address, or IP-based, with
different IP addresses, or some combination
of the 2 kinds.

No need for a separate partition, in any event.

cu

jjs

I'm using virtual hosting for apache right now. But I would like to
create some sort of dedicated server for my wife and myself. The
problem is that I have only one server, so I was thinking to install 2
OS, 2 Partitions, 2 NICs and 2 apaches... I don't know how to make
partitions invisible for each other. Or if it is possible at all.

Possible, but sounds like overkill -

Why 2 OSes when one can do the job?

If you have access to an IBM mainframe,
you can indeed partition the system into
many separate virtual Linux servers.

But my guess is you don't have that kind
of budget - so if you are determined to run
separate OSes, you could kludge something
with vmware - install, say a Red Hat 7.1 base
system, then install say a Solaris 8 system
inside one vmware partition, and do a freebsd
install inside another vmware partition -

but the only real reason to do something so
odd is just for the geekliness of it all, just to
show that you can -

Personally, I'd just run one apache instance
and do it with virtual servers.

cu

jjs