At 06:46 PM 1/31/2006, you wrote:
On 1/30/06, Michael J McCafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I guess I would be remiss if I didn't mention that at M5 you
> can run IRC, and that you can have the server configured with Debian,
> Fedora, CentOS 3 or 4, RHEL 3 or 4, Fedora, OpenBSD, or FreeBSD.
What gets a distro on your list? Why isn't $MY_FAVORITE_DISTRO on the
list, for example? Also, does this mean these are the only ones
*you'll* install for $ME, or they're the only ones I get whether I'm
willing to do the install or not?
-todd, dedicated server hosting uninitiate
Good questions. These are the ones that we offer on the web
site to the unwashed masses (I acknowledge that most of my customers
are generally *nix savvy, but there are some that aren't). They are
the ones that we can most easily support if called to do so. They are
also the ones that we know will install and run on the hardware,
without issues. We know that the install will work from a USB CDROM
drive, the NIC works, the drive interface is supported (IDE/SATA/SATA
II etc), and all of it works on the platform chosen (Intel
32bit/64bit AMD 64-bit, etc.), and that there is a RAID option that
works on all the OSes we use (it's been a 3ware card for about 5yrs now).
To save cost, and minimize administrative overhead and other
costs (keeping spares, etc), we choose a single hardware
configuration which can be scaled by adding RAM or changing disk size
or using a faster CPU.
Why isn't your OS on the list ? We haven't tried it or we
haven't found a good way to support it's use. A good example is
Gentoo. I am sure it works great, but if someone on the other side of
the planet wanted to do a stage 1 install, or compiles themselves
into a non-booting system, they *could* be much more overhead to
support than the others. We *are* working on this though. We are
gonna get some KVM over IP going, for this purpose. It's too
expensive to have a dedicated port per machine (at least at $99/mo),
but we can have the NOC hook it up to the right machine 24x7.
Can you put your own OS on a box ? Sure ! No problem. I get
a lot of people that want stuff like the InstantOGO CD
(http://www.instantogo.com/) installed or another Linux "Appliance"
distro installed (a recent request was
http://www.nuonce.net/bluequartz.php ). Those two are based on OSes
that are known good for us (Fedora and CentOS), so no problem there.
What is your $MY_FAVORITE_DISTRO ??? Maybe we will add it.
Mike
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