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[Ophir Prusak]

We've been using cvsdude for about a year.
no problems so far.

ophir

On 3/11/06, Cliff Hirsch <cliff at pinestream.com> wrote:
> Well, I settled on cvsdude for Subversion, Bugzilla and Trac.
>
> And I'm giving a XEN-based VPS provider a try -- will report back my
> experience.
>
> On another note, wasted a few bucks and a few hours trying Dynamic DNS
> to just use my office dev. server, which is behind a Firewall and NAT.
> Fugetaboutit... Talk about a pain. And then there's all the fine print
> about "if your service provider blocks port 80..." Waste of time....
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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.
> >
> >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.
>
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