> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is copyright PD Inc, subject to license 20080407P00.