Test server speed

[afonic]

Hmm, this one looks promising, especially the Athlon packages.

[sjaz]

What about those google ads ... Dont they count as some form of profiting?.

[sjaz]

The ipowerweb.com ones you'd be best paying Quarterly for as theres a massive discount.

[afonic]

Yeah the CPanel would not give me a non-profit licence, I have ads from 4 different places!!

About ipowerweb it seems very good, the middle AMD package is promising. But I can't understand what kind of support they offer so I send them an email.

[afonic]

OK, I signed up for an account in SeverPronto.

You have 4-5 days of sleep before my wire arrives because I am going to need HELP! Let's hope I could install most of them myself!

[DenisF]

Should you have any problems, you know my number

[sjaz]

From a previous post of mine;

If you go for ServerPronto make sure you dont have any problems. You need to pay for reboots, help tickets and other things. Id stay well clear of them.

Good Luck.

[DenisF]

well u don't have to pay if u do the reboots urself

and any OS that they offer can be booted into full server mode without a touch, so he should have no problem as long as he has admin/root access [win/lin]

[afonic]

Yeah I think that when they talk about reboots they mean cold reboots. Anyway, we will know pretty soon!

@sjaz: Thanks!

[sjaz]

When they talk about reboots. they refer to when you mess something up and they need to get involved. IE, the classic example is forgotten root pass, or messed up /etc/rc.conf in a freebsd environment.

Of course if you totally lock the terminal up or kill SSHd thats the same again.

[DenisF]

One comes to think that a highly scripted cron job can take care of all that

[sjaz]

Take care of what? User error in /etc/rc.conf couldnt imo be rectified by a cronjob.... I guess you could have a cron to set the root pass as "something" on x time x day etc.

[DenisF]

i was thinkin more in the way of scripting cron to check if important services [ie ssh] are up, and if not - restart them.. w/ever

[sjaz]

ahhh yea ... I see what you mean. I would imagine though it would be kind of mad if someone killed off sshd

[DenisF]

If i can corrupt my registry, and lose 28 gigs of data in under 2 minutes, killing ssh is nothing

thing is, i can do a hard-reboot for free, but it would cost afonic money.

thus sshd [being the *main* interface to that system] MUST ALWAYS be up.

or script cron to start telnetd when sshd goes off if it can't pull sshd back up, that kinda stuff..

[afonic]

Actually I have 3 free reboots, so I think that I must very unlucky for sshd to go off more than 3 times per month.
The only problem I have is that my connection (ISDN) is a little problematic, so I may have some troubles.

Actually can you make a list of what I should install?
I need Apache, MySQL, PHP (I know how to install these).
What about mail and FTP?

[sjaz]

This is where you enlist Denis and myself....

[afonic]

Look I am willing to read and "spend" one month for learning before I move my website!

So any info and pages that I can find help would be great!

[DenisF]

hmmm i don't know of any "how to start your own web server box" tutorials anywhere, but just install whatever it is that you need [ftp,mail,mysql,php,apache,pop3,smtp,imap, etc'] and configure them all to work.

after that come the optimizations.

and if you really have some cojones - a kernel upgrade. [unless they already gave u a 2.6 installation, that case ignore me]

[jagar_freebsd]

ServerPronto is a good choise
You have a long way to go. . .
keep in mind to meet with some server admins in person.
That will help you a lot.
Don't worry to screw things up, its a must