Depending upon how much it costs, SSH might be good to add. TYS will charge an 
extra fee; I don't know if it is a one time fee or a monthly. 

PHP Nuke or PostNuke might be nice to tinker with. If anybody is going to try 
tinkering with scripts, do read the TYS Policy page, especially the section 
concerning scripts. They have some special conditions to avoid server 
troubles.

Nothing to deter from going with TYS but it was interesting looking at their 
policy. They are very spam adverse. From a literal reading of the policy, 
it'd be easy knocking anybody off the TYS server; just bother the sysadmins 
with claims of spamming or other matters. Also don't post anything that upset 
the staff. Sorta funny reading about the "Violence" prohibition. Granted, it 
is a tough thing to define but I wonder if a WB Roadrunner cartoon parody 
with a fast moving Tux and Wiley "Windows" Coyote with plenty of cartoon 
violence would upset the staff. <g>

The policy is also mute about privacy of customer info and under what 
conditions will the service hand over customer info, logs, etc. (These days, 
it is best to assume that businesses will hand over info about you at the 
slightest hint of lawyers or law enforcement without waiting for court 
orders, warrants, etc. Seen as both "good corporate citizenship" and as a way 
of keeping legal costs down.) For HamLUG, this is not a big problem for the 
foreseeable future. Just don't post articles about DeCSS and how to add its 
library to Xine. <g> 

Oh, one other thing about the policy, TYS seems to have a thing against 
providing IRC software or files. I can understand about not wanting IRC 
session running on their server or malicious IRC files on the servers, but I 
wonder if they got bit by something involving IRC, file transfers, etc. With 
other materials, like MP3's, they make distinctions according to copyrights


On Monday 13 October 2003 12:44, Jeffrey Yep wrote:
> Here's an update on the web hosting offer we got from Train Yard
> Software. Its a confirmed thing and now we need to decide on what
> services/addons we require. Please go to the following URL
> http://www.tys.us/host_linux.html and look over the different services.
> Lets decide on which ones we'd like to start with and we'll work from
> there.
>
> Let the emails flow.......
>
> Jeff

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