[nycphp-talk] Subversion, Bugzilla hosting
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Sat Mar 11 00:59:40 EST 2006
Greg Rundlett greg.rundlett-at-gmail.com |nyphp dev/internal group use|
wrote:
>On 3/10/06, Cliff Hirsch <cliff at pinestream.com> wrote:
>Another option I'm honing in on is VPS -- looks pretty reasonable and
>flexible.
>
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>
>Caution. I know other people have obviously had positive experiences
>with VPS and/or 'root servers' from 1&1 or other companies. I did
>not.
>
>I found it to be one of the most dissatisfying experiences of my
>consulting career. I wasted 10x the amount of time I would have spent
>just doing the sysadmin work myself. The installation and setup of my
>accounts were buggy. The software (cPanel or Plesk) were useless.
>That software is not nearly as useful as Webmin. More than anything,
>managing the server through the terrible 'control panel' was the
>really bad part. And there was incongruous language in their
>advertising and TOS that ended up biting me too.
>
>
Now that someone has said this, I will agree.
I still use Westhost Virtual Server accounts for a few projects, and I
*think* I appreciate that I don't have as many sysadmin/security
concerns as I have with other dedicated servers. However, I find the
control panel (which is actually a PHP/DHTML application) horribly slow
and an unwelcomed intermediary between me and the system. Luckily I can
ssh in for *most* things when I want to.
If you want to re-install a base system, though, it is pretty easy to
reset the virtual server and start fresh. Not sure how often I could
accomplish that with the dedicated servers without being ready to pay
for some hands-on support or make a site visit.
-=john andrews
http://www.seo-fun.com
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