j.c.bucking...@rgu.ac.uk

Hi Martin,

Been a lot of talk about this on Twitter recently as a few Developers are jumping on this band wagon, including myself.

I've got a virtual server running my blog and a couple of other small sites at moment. I've never used Linux before and my first command prompt was actually typed on the new box that I bought from Slicehost at the start of the year :-)

Don't know about flavours of OS but I went with CentOS as there seemed to be a lot more documentation for it both for setup and CF related stuff.

Slicehost I would highly recommend but John Beynon did a good article on them and Mosso here:
http://john.beynon.org.uk/2009/04/17/mosso-cloudservers-vs-slicehost/

I bought the basic Slicehost package and it works out on average about £15 a month (give and take currency conversion as they're US based). Uptime has been 100% and the system is very fast. They have a really decent set of documentation online which takes you through all the setup, locking down of user accounts and firewall access along with installing mySQL, Apache and something else called PHP - Don't know what that is, I just ignored it though.

In terms of installing Railo there is a healthy amount of blogs out there that cover the setup but they'll probably vary depending on your choice of OS. If you got CentOS give me a shout as I've got a great step by step guide that I was sent from a fellow CFfer in the US.

HTH

Cheers,
James

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