[ale] Infrastructure services on same host?

[leam hall]

Understood. I just try to make life easier on the admins, of which I am
part time one.   :)

Load is a valid reason, but I'll deal with that if it ever shows up.


On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 1:00 PM, dev null zero two <dev.null.02 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I partly kid, but separating services into different OSes reduces
> complexity and is necessary for high load. don't want your dhcp server to
> quit handing out leases because your mail daemon is getting hammered.
>
> Sent from my mobile. Please excuse the brevity, spelling, and punctuation.
> On Jun 23, 2015 12:59 PM, "James Sumners" <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So what happens when you need to do maintenance on the mail relay?
>> Maintenance that necessitates taking the whole system offline (for whatever
>> reason). You are then taking offline at least one of your internal DNS and
>> NTP servers.
>>
>> I prefer one service per system for that reason. However, we are a
>> primarily VM based shop.
>>
>> I do have some physical servers that are running multiple services,
>> though. And those two boxes are running: DNS, DHCP, and NTP. All very
>> related services.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:36 PM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I've seen large companies take the "Winderz Way" and put every single
>>> service on a separate host. This adds cost and resource consumption and I'm
>>> not sure there's a good reason for it.
>>>
>>> Am I off base here? Is there any reason not to have internal only DNS,
>>> NTP, and Mail Relaying on the same hosts?
>>>
>>> Leam
>>>
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