Why on Earth any sane engineer would think that adding layers of "virtualized" crap in front of your application will be of any benefit?) The only advantage of

Why on Earth any sane engineer would think that adding layers of "virtualized" crap in front of your application will be of any benefit?) The only advantage of virtualization is on the developing stage and it is an ability to add quickly more slow and crappy resources you not own.) Production is an entirely different realm, and the less layers of crap is in between of your TCP request and DB storage - the better. As for load balancing - it is Cisco level problem.) Last question: why each web site must be represented as a hierarchy of some objects, instead of thinking in terms of what it is - a list of static files and some cached content generation on demand?)