I'll second the use of something like LXC (new to me) or OpenVZ (what we use), allowing you to run/test multiple distros at once. If you want to try debian (or pretty much any linux distro), download a container skeleton for it and install in a few seconds. I've used virtualbox/kvm, but I found containers in openvz to be much easier to work with. A 'machine' is simply a folder on the host server. You can zip it up, move between machines, rsync it. Whatever. It's like virtualenv for distros.
To be able to rsync/clone an entire container to create a second instance for upgrade or other testing is a wonderful thing. Since we also use in production, it's a simple remote rsync to have a fully working clone of our live servers for troubleshooting too. I can't imagine going back at this point, and even run it on single purpose machines in production for the flexibilty. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
