-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Warren Young Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:30 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell...
Jason Pyeron wrote:
0: we do not want the admin responsibility for the box. We
even don't
want to change configurations.
But you do want to install software. It's possible to install some kinds of software without root access, but you're cutting yourself off from a huge world of software that doesn't allow this.
Exactly. We will only need to push our "web application" and pull our logs.
You can maybe install some simple CGI programs, and you'll have to build everything from source, because you can't change the RPM DB, you can't make servers listen on ports < 1024, you'll have to reconfigure/rebuild anything that wants to put config files in /etc.... I don't see why you'd shackle yourself like that. You don't get "yum install thingy" without root access.
We can use rsync over ssh, scp, or subversion over ssh/https to do our push and pulls. No need for more ... (insert 640k jokes)
Everyone's pushing you to one of the VPS providers because that's what all the cool kids are doing now that VM technology is commoditized.
I do not have an opinion on this.
And on that note, we use VPSLink. Their parent company, Spry, offers VPSes with more hand-holding, at a higher price. You can get VPSes from either with various flavors of CentOS on them.
Not insearch of hand holding, but out sourced responsibility, hence the SLA.
And I can warn you off of WebIntellects. Not bad people, but I left them because their systems management policies were too lackadaisical.
Good to know, this is the Godaddy issue right now.
If you were willing to monitor your site 24x7 from the outside, you could maintain good uptimes.
Not willing to take responsibility, but willing to pay for it.
Otherwise, your site could be down for hours until you noticed it, but they would start counting the downtime from the time your reported the problem, not from when it actually went down.
Could automate: * * * * * pingscript.sh || emailsupportscript.sh
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