Thanks for the tip, Mary Jo. As a matter of fact, AHPHosting.com does use Plesk.
The good news is, however, that none of my clients work with their sites at all, except through the content management systems that I build for them. And, although I run a mail server, it's just for my personal email and for newsletter, etc that my clients send out through their sites. I don't provide POP email services for any clients. So I don't have to worry about clients working directly with any of the technology or software running their sites. Thanks for the tip, too, about the single IP approach. That sounds like what I'll need to do. I want to be able to access everything from one point. I can tell, this is going to be loads of fun... Rick -----Original Message----- From: Mary Jo Sminkey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 2:08 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Shared Hosting vs VPS >But I maintain the databases myself using Navicat. They still would probably have to set up the database though, I doubt you would ever have root access on a shared server! >I don't see what they would have to do anything, unless >it's permissions setting or something. A one-time setup >fee, if they have to actually do something, would be acceptable, >but not $5 per month per database... Of course, I agree. BTW - I use Navicat as well, and a warning here if you get a VPS with Plesk on it. I think it's a nice control panel for the most part, particularly if you are going to be hosting clients on the site and want to give them access for setting up things like domains and email accounts. But one thing that really bugs me is that it disables the MySQL root account, instead requiring you to set up individual databases each with their own user. Kind of a pain if you like to remotely administer all your databases under one account. You can fix this, but it requires using the command line interface to add the root account back in. Best is to grant it access only for your IP address, for obvious security reasons. Just an FYI if you do go this route that it's an issue. --- Mary Jo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:289370 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
