Re: which webserver ?

Hi Kenneth,

Personally I believe the Cobalt servers are more of a benefit to the ISPs=20
than to website owners.  Cobalt comes in a limited number of configurations=
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and requires very little setup by the ISPs sysadmin staff.

I'm looking for a bit more flexibility in what I have installed on the=20
webserver, so I went with a generic rack server that I'm configuring the=20
software on myself.  (Apache, PHP4, MySQL, Oracle, QuickMail  etc.)  I'm a=
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decent programmer so the sysadmin tasks aren't that onerous.

For what it's worth, I've got a dedicated server with=20
WebServePro.  http://www.webservepro.com  I liked them because they're=20
willing to help out with the sysadmin tasks but still allow me to have root=
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access.  They were also willing to build the machine for me instead of my=20
having to build it and ship it to them.  They have a nice backup solution=20
where they add your server to their tape backups for $2/gig/month, min=20
$25.  So far their customer support has been very good.

         Rene


At 08:28 AM 8/11/00 -0600, you wrote:
>From: Akerne Orchids <info(at)akerne-orchids.com>
>Subject: which webserver ?
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm looking for your feedback and comments on the following (I searched the
>archives but haven't found the info I wanted):
>
>Over the past couple of weeks I have been looking at the possibilities to
>own/operate my own webserver. So far I have looked at the sites of Cobalt
>and IOPliance and studied their offer, but to be quite honest the Cobalt
>solution seems better...
>
>Do you any of you (and I'm sure there are some out there) have any comments
>on this type of servers ?
>If you do not like them, why not ? What else did you go for ?
>
>
>To limit the number of possible server types, I'll just say that it has to
>run Linux (why, because it's the platform I use now and I like it) and that
>things like a webbased control panel would be very interesting indeed (not
>to say "a must").
>Solutions for tape backup etc would also be appreciated.
>
>kind regards,
>
>Kenneth Bruyninckx

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