Thank you all for your advice. I read your blog about rackspace cloud, Hetz. You don't like them too much, do you? I think I will prefer not to use shared hosting, but it's a good idea to test the software in shared hosting while in development, and only later move to cloud web hosting. Currently www.speedy.net is hosted on Servage (a shared hosting). It works fine, for example you can check Speedy Whois and my blog.
Shahar, is the Zend Server free as in FOSS? or just free of charge? at this stage I tend to use only FOSS, I don't know the advantages of Zend Server and I never used it before. I just read an article about Zend on Calcalist yesterday [http://www.calcalist.co.il/internet/articles/0,7340,L-3450861,00.html], I receive their newsletter. I think Zeev Suraski should not complain about facebook not paying Zend. Free software is free software, and they received a lot of money from Microsoft. Facebook is paying its employees, which many of them are developers, and they also support open source software. I don't think they have to pay Zend for using PHP. By the way, I heard facebook created a PHP compiler to C++. Does it mean they will release it as FOSS? It might speed up websites without having to change anything, just install it and it would speed up your website. Uri Even-Chen Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.speedy.net/ On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Uri Even-Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to build a new social networking website called Speedy Net. I > want to use PHP, Javascript and MySQL (LAMP). I am considering where > to host this website, where one of the options is using Rackspace > Cloud [http://www.rackspacecloud.com]. If I use Rackspace Cloud, I > will need to select what type of hosting I want - cloud servers > (managed or not), cloud sites or cloud files > [https://signup.rackspacecloud.com/signup?id=1238]. I also need to > select what Linux distribution to use > [http://www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_hosting_products/servers/technology/index.php#os_apps]. > The available options are: > > Arch 2010.05 > CentOS 5.5 > CentOS 5.4 > Debian 5.0 (Lenny) > Fedora 14 (Laughlin) > Fedora 13 (Goddard) > Fedora 12 (Constantine) > Gentoo 10.1 > Oracle EL R5U4 > Oracle EL R5U3 JEOS > Red Hat EL 5.4 > Red Hat EL 5.3 > Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) > Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) > Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) > Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS (Hardy Heron) > > I don't know which distribution to choose! I only used Red Hat Linux, > about 10 years ago, and even if I select Red Hat - I don't know which > one. I don't know the difference between distributions, I just know I > need LAMP. > > What do you recommend? > > Also, I understand if I choose an unmanaged server, I will need to > install everything myself - including Apache, PHP and MySQL? Or are > they installed in the distributions? > > How do I backup the database and files? Do I need to select a managed server? > > I also received a list of PHP Web Hosting > [http://www.webhostingreport.com/best-php-hosting.html], but I'm quite > suspicious of "unlimited" web hosting, for around $3.50 per month. How > can web hosting be unlimited? Do I really get an unlimited website for > $3.50 per month?!? > > Thanks, > Uri Even-Chen > Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559 > E-mail: [email protected] > Website: http://www.speedy.net/ > _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
