on 9-24-2008 7:17 AM Bob Hoffman spake the following: > Well, I finally did it..and used centos. > > I started out in 1997 with my little website with not much on it. It was a > shared host account. Eventually I added some more sites and got to grow out > and went to this new fangled thing called VPS. > > Lots of problems plagued me throughout that experience, some on ensim > control panel, some on others. When chost.net (think that was their name) > blew up (1999 ?) and I lost my sites I moved to OLM. > Finally got big enough to go to the dedicated thing. My own server, managed > by the hosting company. > Years of that turned stale as recumbent issues of updating and control > panels just made it not so good. > > I made the plunge and built my own server and colocated it. Only problem, > which software. I decided on rhel, but found the support so stunningly > unknowledgable I moved to centos since it made no difference free or paid, > no tech support is really there anyway. And I do not like redhat having > access to my servers like that. > > It was a long long trial by fire to learn sysadmin with linux. But lessened > by the huge amount of pre-setups that are done with a centos install. I look > at web pages and books that talk about untarring, installing and compiling, > and just pass right by them (scared one day I may have to do that stuff). > > It was not easy making the jump. Especially deciding not to use a control > panel. However, today, just minutes ago, I moved the final website from the > dedicated host to my own server and cancelled the account. > > It is just a wonderful and elated feeling to know I have a good server with > redundancy, great raid mirror, awesome software, great company updating > security patches and a great company that repackages that for me from > redhat. > > So far, other than the hardships of learning how to build the dang webserver > with a ton of poorly instructed programs, centos has been sturdy, stable, > and works like a charm, almost out of the box!! > > I would never want to repeat the experience of learning this stuff for the > first time...never. But now that I passed what I hope is the last hard bump > in the road, I can finally get some sleep, go outside, and start programming > more websites. > > Thanks centos. > > And yes. I am compiling all my notes from start to finish on this webserver > project and intend to print a book with a step by step...but only for > centos. Eventually make it one big wiki site too. > > Thanks for everyone who helped, everyone who yelled, everyone who flamed, > everyone who just laughed, and everyone who supported. > > Today, I am free from hosting companies! Hooooo- Aaaaaaaah!!!! > > And a big thank you to the team at Centos who take the time to package up > the redhat binaries and make them work correctly...and for adding the > updates so quickly to the mirrors. I hope my book will bring more people to > centos as a perfect solution for a webserver. > > Gonna go to bed now...finally over. If you make some money on your book, toss a little back to aid those who made it all possible for you. http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=23 -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080924/9bbeaff5/attachment-0005.sig>