On Sun, 24 May 2009, Damien Hull wrote:
> A thought popped into my head about a week ago. Would it be possible to run a virtual server inside Amazons EC2 service? It looks that way... I did a quick Google search "openvz amazon ec2". Amazon lets you run custom kernels. I'm guessing I need the OpenVZ kernel. I haven't tried this yet but I hope it works.
>
> Here's my problem.
> 1. I want to host my own eamil
> 2. I don't want to run another Amazon server
> 3. Email requires an SSL connection
> 4. I want to host more then one service with SSL
>
> I'm not sure if OpenVZ is the answer. More research is needed. Here's my thinking...
> 1. Apache proxy on the Amazon EC2 server
> 2. Host everything inside OpenVZ instances
> 4. Forward connections to the OpneVZ instances
>
> Okay, that's enough for now. My head hearts just thinking about virtual networks....
You do realize that SSL is not tied to a specific port, right? If you
support TLS/SSL with SMTP, POP, IMAP, and HTTP, they all use different
ports, and can all use different SSL certs as well. Methinks you're
massively over-complicating this task...
--Arthur Corliss
Live Free or Die
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