Why shouldn't we run Postgres in a VM? What are the downsides? Does anyone have any metrics or benchmarks with the latest Postgres?
For those of us with small (a few to a dozen servers), we'd like to get out of server maintenance completely. Can anyone with experience on a cloud VM solution comment? Do the VM solutions provided by the major hosting companies have the same good performance as the VM's that that several have described here?
Obviously there's Amazon's new Postgres solution available. What else is out there in the way of "instant on" solutions with Linux/Postgres/Apache preconfigured systems? Has anyone used them in production?