[Discuss] Server Machines (was Re: ZFS on Raspberry Pi?)

[Rich Pieri]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2022 13:38:46 -0400
markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:

> I know this is a little bit off topic, but why would you set up a
> machine to be a server? Nobody does that any more.

Who is this "Nobody" of which you speak? I don't think I have ever met
them. But I know, and know of, lots of people who stand up server
machines.

> Create VMs to perform the services and have the IPs mapped to the VM
> and hostmap the IP. That way you can back up the "server" and in case
> of emergency, almost any Linux running can take the VM image and spin
> it up.

If you don't have a server machine to host your VMs then you don't have
a host for your VMs. Seems like a tautology to me.

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