<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hello CLUG members I'm a systems administrator and web developer for inCharge (See <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.inCharge.co.uk">http://www.inCharge.co.uk</a>) using CentOS and virtualization as a platform for small business web hosting. There must be a lot of people trying to achieve exactly the same thing as me: an efficient, robust, secure, low maintenance, cost-effective hosting platform for small businesses / organisations. I think there's a much better way to meet these goals than the usual web server setup with incremental backups. But it has taken weeks of FAQs and HowTos to get where I am and it has been fun, but it's not for everyone, and I still have a long way to go. So I'm starting a project to develop a methodology called 'Twinned Hosting' and written about here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://julianprice.org.uk">http://julianprice.org.uk</a> so that 1) admins that want to achieve the same goal can collaborate 2) more admins will adopt the methodology and test it for us 3) The concept, scripts and documentation can be scrutinised and refined over time in the Open Source tradition. I'm working on the scripts and documentation (e.g. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupKVMGuest">http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupKVMGuest</a>) and looking for people who would like to collaborate on the project. (See the ToDo section) I'm also grateful for any feedback, especially if you think there's a better way or a fatal flaw or it's already been done. Thanks, Julian Price </body> </html>