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Gareth Cole

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From: Gareth Cole <gareth.c...@esus.ie>

Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 10:29:42 +0100

Local: Thurs 21 May 2009 10:29

Subject: Re: [SCFUG] Re: linux VPS?

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Hi Martin,

I was asking about hosting a few weeks ago. I got distracted by other stuff
though, and haven't got around to trying it yet. I'd be interested to know
how you get on.

I discovered a UK centric forum on web hosting, and a few searches on hosts
you are considering should let you know if it's a good idea or not:
http://www.webhostchat.co.uk/

Personally, I think I'll give http://vps.net a go (from the UK2 group). I
quite like the flexibility of cloud computing. I think there may be some
talks clouds at sotr.
Amazon EC2 is obviously the famous cloud. Mosso is another one, although I'm
avoiding them on principle (their owners rackspace once blacklisted a server
of mine and I hold a grudge :)

--------- Original Message --------
From: scottishcfug@googlegroups.com
To: scottishcfug@googlegroups.com <scottishcfug@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [SCFUG] Re: linux VPS?
Date: 21/05/09 11:11

> 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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