Re: VSEERVER (was: Re: Web Hosting Recommendation)

2005-10-07 Thread Danny Lieberman
Guys We host software.co.il at http://www.johncompanies.com/ - they are good, performance is fast, they are FOSS-friendly, i.e. give discounts if you host an OSS project. For an economy-virtual server, imho, they cannot be beat. OTOH, if you need the real thing, there is nothing like

Re: VSEERVER (was: Re: Web Hosting Recommendation)

2005-10-07 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
rackspace prices are nightmare! specially when it comes to private people or very small businesses.. I found that EV1 are much cheaper, and their connection to the world is great (you can find some MRTG graphs there regarding their connection). Hetz On 10/7/05, Danny Lieberman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VSEERVER (was: Re: Web Hosting Recommendation)

2005-10-07 Thread Oron Peled
On Friday, 7 בOctober 2005 12:18, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: I found that EV1 are much cheaper, Just a reminder: These were the people that jumped on the SCO bandwagon and bought SCO licenses to use Linux: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040322133607169 The market has enough

Re: Web Hosting Recommendation

2005-10-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 11:14:08AM +0200, Michael Sternberg wrote: -Original Message- From: Lior Kesos I've reccommended http://www.rotmax.com in the past and I'm still happy with their service - it's a mediuim size hosting operation. I've been hosting there for the past 3 years

Re: VSEERVER (was: Re: Web Hosting Recommendation)

2005-10-07 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Some managers are fools. I've been working with quite few stupid managers in various jobs and places :) Does this means EV1 service is bad? does this means any other problems? I don't think so. Their management goofed. Happened with almost ANY management in the world (specially when you treat PR

Re: VSEERVER (was: Re: Web Hosting Recommendation)

2005-10-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 02:48:07AM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: [ regarding security ] With some other web hosting + shell - you are really totally depend on his security measures, and I have been an employee of some of the well known ISP's in this country who's their security skills and

EV1 and SCO (was: Re: VSEERVER (was: Re: Web Hosting Recommendation))

2005-10-07 Thread Omer Zak
The important issue is the terms of the SCO Linux license which EV1 bought. AFAIK, the terms of the SCO Linux license (which become binding once the document is signed and becomes a contract from legal point of view) are such that EV1 are permitted to use only a certain binary-only version of

Re: VSEERVER (was: Re: Web Hosting Recommendation)

2005-10-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 12:38:11PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Some managers are fools. I've been working with quite few stupid managers in various jobs and places :) Does this means EV1 service is bad? does this means any other problems? I don't think so. Their management goofed.

Re: EV1 and SCO (was: Re: VSEERVER (was: Re: Web Hosting Recommendation))

2005-10-07 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Well, allow me to update you :) They made a mistake (actually their CEO did), and they appologized publically and cancelled all the licensing issues with SCO - so the story ends.. You CAN install anything you like in those machines. Just for the fun I switched the machine I had there from RHEL 3

Re: EV1 and SCO (was: Re: VSEERVER (was: Re: Web Hosting Recommendation))

2005-10-07 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 14:36 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Well, allow me to update you :) They made a mistake (actually their CEO did), and they appologized publically and cancelled all the licensing issues with SCO - so the story ends.. Sounds too good to be true. Do you have a citation for

Re: VSEERVER (was: Re: Web Hosting Recommendation)

2005-10-07 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, They bought SCOSource licenses for their Linux systems. That license allows them to only use certain blessed versions of the Linux kernel (binary only). Quite a severe limitation, IMHO. And they cancelled the license deal with SCO. The press seems to forget to publish such small things

Re: Web Hosting Recommendation

2005-10-07 Thread Lior Kesos
I have 2 of their 5$ accounts and have shell access for both domains.(which both lead to my user on the hositng machine - give you a homey(~) feeling ... On 10/7/05, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 11:14:08AM +0200, Michael Sternberg wrote: -Original

Re: EV1 and SCO (was: Re: VSEERVER (was: Re: Web Hosting Recommendation))

2005-10-07 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I asked for a formal note from EV1. As soon as it hits my email box, I'll publish it here. Thanks, Hetz On 10/7/05, Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 14:36 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Well, allow me to update you :) They made a mistake (actually their CEO did), and

Re: Web Hosting Recommendation

2005-10-06 Thread Lior Kesos
First of all - Happy New Year and Mazal Tov for the new job I've reccommended http://www.rotmax.com in the past and I'm still happy with their service - it's a mediuim size hosting operation. I've been hosting there for the past 3 years and I know that some people in the list have hosted there

Re: Web Hosting Recommendation

2005-10-06 Thread Michael Sternberg
-Original Message- From: Lior Kesos I've reccommended http://www.rotmax.com in the past and I'm still happy with their service - it's a mediuim size hosting operation. I've been hosting there for the past 3 years and I know that some people in the list have hosted there as well. The

Re: Web Hosting Recommendation

2005-10-06 Thread Uri Even-Chen
Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi good people! Having a very populated homepage ( http://www.shlomifish.org/ ), and having gained a job with a nice steady positive income, I'd like to move my homepage to a serious web-hosting facility. At the moment, it is hosted at Actcom (with parts on a different

VSEERVER (was: Re: Web Hosting Recommendation)

2005-10-06 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Actually, I don't understand why don't you select a virtual server, and allow me to highlight some points: 1. With Virtual Server, you're not locked to any version of component (imagine that you want to use some feature from Perl 5.8 or Apache 2, but your host machine only has prior version. go

Web Hosting Recommendation

2005-10-05 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi good people! Having a very populated homepage ( http://www.shlomifish.org/ ), and having gained a job with a nice steady positive income, I'd like to move my homepage to a serious web-hosting facility. At the moment, it is hosted at Actcom (with parts on a different host in the Technion),