I have been playing a lot with the various Turnkey Linux options. Turnkey Linux is based on Ubuntu and

“…is a virtual appliance library that integrates and polishes the very best open source software into ready to use solutions. Each virtual appliance is optimized for ease of use and can be deployed in just a few minutes on bare metal, a virtual machine and in the cloud.”

It was super exciting to get Turnkey up and running on Amazon EC2. It was quick and easy. There was only one problem – it was damned expensive. After 5 days it cost me $13 US to host just one appliance. Game over.

Now if I could host multiple projects on one appliance, I’d use Turnkey Linux in a heartbeat. That is, a single installation that has both Drupal, Twiki and File Sharing. I suppose it can be done, but one seems to lose the “quick and easy” benefits.

There are other companies that host TurnkeyLinux, but there again you can only host one appliance per account.

I tried installed Turnkey Core in the hopes I could go into Webmin and install Turnkey patches to install Drupal or other projects, but that didn’t work.

This singular focus provides no value to me. I somehow need to get multiple appliances rolled up into one. If anyone knows of an easy way to do this, please let me know. I’d gladly let Turnkey Linux ubduct me all over again.