[ale] Infrastructure services on same host?

[leam hall]

Multiples of everything. Instead of 1 each SMTP, DNS, and NTP server, make
three servers do everything.

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:55 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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