Running a web server from ESXi

[fyb3r]

Currently I have just a little run of the mill box, 9gb ddr3 with a dual core i5 that I was going to use as a web server. The site isnt going to host much of anything currently aside from a forum and be a place for me to play with code. I was wondering if running it off of ESXi (it being the only vm on it) would be ok or not.

Im wanting to run it as a vm mainly because I like the idea of being able to roll back from a snapshot if something gets screwed up, and the fact that later if I need to move it to another machine it will be quite simple to export the virtual hard drive out.


So any ideas?

 

[kevnich2]

Just take the same proper precautions as any other public facing web server. An improperly secured web server can cause lots of problems.

 

[fyb3r]

Oh im not worried about security as that is what i do for a living is pentest ^_^ I was just curious as to whether or not it would be advisable from a physical performance stand point to host it in an ESXi environment or if it would for one reason or another cause unnecessary lag on the machine itself. In which case ill just put the OS directly on the machine rather than a virtual.

 

[Lifted]

Unless you're planning on 100+ concurrent users hitting the server you don't even have to give a thought to performance. You have more than enough.

 

[kevnich2]

Unless you're planning on 100+ concurrent users hitting the server you don't even have to give a thought to performance. You have more than enough.

Probably a couple hundred to a thousand actually. Yeah you're good as far as performance is concerned, unless your hosting a performance intense website with a lot of scripts or something

 

[fyb3r]

Probably a couple hundred to a thousand actually. Yeah you're good as far as performance is concerned, unless your hosting a performance intense website with a lot of scripts or something

Awesome, thanks to both of you!

I do not think I will be getting a whole lot of traffic since it will be the first site I own, so Im assuming ill have quite a bit of buffer room before I need to actually start bumping the hardware.

Thanks a bunch gents! Cheers.