Uses

Describe how you are using your unixshell# VM. Please include as much detail as possible, such as software version, disk space usage etc.

[edit] The 64 Plan

DNS servers - minimal debian installation running BIND. I don't know how well this scales up in performance, but I have about 14 megs of RAM to spare with 0.00 load averages hosting about 15 zones.

Mail exchanges - minimal debian installs, postfix setup with recipient address verification for all domains I'm hosting so I don't need to manage lists of valid addresses or syncronize things between my mx servers and the final mailstore box. Postfix + ClamAV together can fit nicely in a The 32 package. A well tuned The 64 can probably handle a few thousand emails a day without breaking a sweat.

Voice chat servers - I've got both a Ventrilo and Teamspeak voicechat servers running quite comfortably on my The 64 plans. Actually, I stole my DNS boxes to run these, since they don't have too much work to do anyway. Voice chatting sounds just as smooth on one of these as it did on my full blown dedicated box with over 10x the resources.

Web,SMTP,POP3,Sshd - minimal debian installation, Solid pop3d, Postfix, Apache, Sshd.

Web Hosting for personal site - gentoo installation running apache (with DAV for subversion), mod_python (for django), postfix, sshd

Nagios, Munin Monitoring, Tertiary DNS - minimal Debian installation running Nagios and Munin (web displays through Apache2) and tertiary DNS (bind9). The load average does spike above .5 several times per day with all the Nagios tests running, but the average is only about .2-.3. So we still seem to have enough bandwidth and CPU available to tack on a few more light duty services.

Debian Dev box Our development team needed a shared system running Debian unstable to test and experiment with Debian packages (some that we build ourselves, some that are found on the net, and some that are in Debian unstable and we want to "try out") before placing in a production environment. With the snapshot service, we can install older versions of Debian, test major Debian upgrades (including our custom built Debian packages), and try out other versions of Linux while keeping our dev environment in tact (untested so far).

Web host and mail server - I am running: debian testing, lighttpd (1.4.7), mysql, postfix (mysql), courier-imap (mysql), courier-pop (mysql), pure-ftpd (mysql), subversion (via inetd) all latest versions from debian testing.

Web Hosting - Running minimal debian install with apache 2.x w/php, mysql, postfix (for sending outbound mail). I host small sites for friends, my personal site with resume, pictures, etc.

Email Hosting - Running minimal debian install with postfix, mysql, courier-imap, and spamassassin (viruses are screened out earlier in the process by my mx servers). Also running apache 1.x w/php to provide both webmail access and administrative features.

Webmail and Asterisk - Sendmail, Dovecot and SquirrelMail for my email needs. Asterisk and AMP for my VoIP needs. All running merrily on 64 with CentOS 4.2.

Websites, wiki, mail, DNS - Apache 2, PHP 5, MySQL 5, TWiki 4, qmail, courier-imapd (running with SSL only), and djbdns, all running on Gentoo (2006.0 profile at this time).

VOIP SIP Exchange - I ran an Asterisk™ Open Source PBX server on the 160 plan. Using a Debian install with Asterisk and deps installed makes a great SIP gateway capable of hosting quite a reasonable amount of traffic. At this point Asterisk conference calling is not supported by the XEN engine, but the 160 still makes a good alternative for anyone wanting a SIP only telephone exchange.Actually the alternate conferencing works on Xen- see the Xen wiki
PostgreSQL and Subversion server - I run a large SVN server with PgSQL interfacing on the 160 plan.

Ruby on Rails - minimal debian installation running two Ruby on Rails blogs (Typo), lighttpd, Apache2 + DAV_SVN, Mysqld, Postfix with IMAP, Spamassassin, fetchmail, and procmail. 101MB of RAM used.