I have a site hosted at ServInt on a virtual private server (VPS) running Red Hat 9, Virtuozzo, and Cpanel. The network ops folks have dissuaded me from installing Mapserver, saying in part: "The requirements for this application would most likely cause instability on a VPS. Additionally, there are no pre-made binaries for RedHat 9.0. You would probably need a Mapserver expert to install this software for you on your VPS, and it would most likely break functionality with other things (like cPanel). It is not something that looks like it would play nicely with the software that cPanel installs. It looks like it would require a self contained PHP daemon."
Are they being too cautious, or should I give up on installing this? My goal is to be able to dynamically render the NOAA ENC charts. Is there a simpler alternative for doing so? Anyone out there with cPanel experience who would be interested in a project to install this? Thanks, Michael Slater www.BoatingSF.com
